Higher education
Life and Breath: Choral Works by René Clausen won two Grammys Feb. 10. Clausen is a music professor at Con- cordia College, Moorhead, Minn., and conductor of the Concordia Choir. The 13-track album, performed by the Kansas City Chorale, won Best Choral Performance and Best Engi- neered Classical Album. The album’s producer also won for Best Classical Producer. One piece from the album, “All That Hath Life and Breath, Praise Ye the Lord,” was performed at the Jan. 21 U.S. presidential inaugura- tion. Clausen is a member of Bethesda Lutheran Church, Moorhead.
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., successfully completed a challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation to finish fundraising for the $3.5 million Bud Pearson Swed- ish Chapel and Mabee Foundation Welcome Center. “For the first time in over 30 years, Bethany will con- struct a fully fundraised building,” said Bethany President Edward F. Leonard III. Construction begins in mid-2013, with a dedication planned for Homecoming 2014.
According to The Daily Beastwebsite, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, is one of the nation’s “More Overlooked Colleges & Programs.” Wittenberg was singled out for “Undergraduate Curiosity” in a list of 41 colleges and universities based on reader responses to “25 Colleges You Haven’t Considered But Should.”
Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., is one of the “10 Most Innovative Col- leges in the Country,” according to a Feb. 14 blog by OnlineUniversities. com. Wagner was recognized for innovation in community awareness. Its service learning program equips students to use what they learn in the classroom to help the community. “Students must take three learning
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community courses with associated weekly community volunteer work,” the blog said. “By graduation stu- dents will have completed hundreds of hours of community service. Stu- dents are encouraged to take an alter- native spring break of serving instead of partying. Wagner’s approach to learning-by-doing is a truly innova- tive way to produce well-rounded graduates.”
Texas Lutheran students in need of financial scholarships will get a boost, thanks to Peace Evangeli- cal Lutheran Church, San Antonio. Peace, which had its closing service Jan. 13, made a $300,000 gift to Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, with funds from the sale of its build- ing and a bequest from a former member, Helen Stratton. The gift will establish two financial aid efforts: The Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, San Antonio, Scholarship and The Richard and Helen Stratton Memorial Scholarship. Elsie Wen- del, a charter member of Peace, as well as a parent and grandparent of TLU alumni, called it “an honor to be able to be a part of making this last- ing gift to the university that means so much to me and my family.”
The topic of mass incarceration in the U.S. brought activist and scholar Angela Davis, as well as activist and commentator Marc Lamont Hill, to speak March 9 to students at Gus- tavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. The 18th annual student-led Building Bridges conference, “Sen- tenced for Life, dealt with mass incarceration, juvenile justice, pri- vate prisons, immigration detention centers, re-entry and more. “We are trying to give a voice to a population that is otherwise voiceless: to join in the movement and help expand it, and fight for the people [who] many would not be willing to fight
for because of the stigma,” said Jas- mine Porter, a Gustavus senior and co-chair of Building Bridges. Davis, a professor emerita at the University of California–Santa Cruz and author of the upcoming book Prisons and American History, was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List in 1970 because of her social activism. She was incarcerated for 16 months until her acquittal in 1972. Hill, an associ- ate professor of education at Teach- ers College at Columbia University, New York, is the author of First Class Jails/Second Class Schools: Black Youth in the Age of Incarceration.
Newberry [S.C.] College is freezing tuition rates for the 2013 freshman class and currently enrolled students for the four consecutive years they attend the school, or the remainder of their undergraduate career. Incom- ing transfer students will also receive a similar guarantee. “This tuition promise will guarantee affordabil- ity and predictability for students and their families, making a quality education at Newberry College more accessible,” said board chair Hap Pearce. Although the tuition promise doesn’t include room, board and stu- dent fees, Pearce said the board will take necessary actions “to keep these increases to a minimum.”
What’s the capital of Oman? It’s Mus- cat, where Lynda Hasseler, a music professor at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, and 12 members of Philomel, a vocal ensemble of Capi- tal’s Conservatory of Music, traveled in February to participate in the Amer- ican International School of Muscat’s 10th annual Festival of Choirs. The festival unites students from multiple nations into one mass choir for a non- competitive, community-building experience under the direction of a guest conductor—this year it was Hasseler.
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