First comes Beacon. Then comes love. Then comes marriage. Cupid and his crossbow have been busy on Beacon College’s campus through the years. Meet some alumni who discovered the college not only was a great place for students who learn differently, but also a beacon of amore. READ MORE
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Beacon associate professor of art Russell Bellamy and reference librarian Gretchen Dreimiller welcomed their second bundle of joy at high noon on January 3. Cordelia tipped the scales at five pounds, 13 ounces. Big sister Eva shows off her new built-in playmate.
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Dr. Michelle Szydlowski saw her research article, “Potential risk zone for anthropogenic mortality of carnivores in Gandaki Province, Nepal," published in the journal “Ecology and Evolution.” Read it here. Szydlowski also published another article, “Elephants in Nepal: Correlating disease, tourism, and welfare” in the "Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science." Read it here.
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Dr. Leigh Camacho Rourks saw what she describes as her “very angry roar into the universe” poem, “Close Your Legs and Cross Your Ankles,” published in Rejection Letters, an online outlet that publishes epic rejection letters, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid works, whatever. Read the poem here.
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Dr. Brian Ogle and Beacon anthrozoology student Annabel DeSmet last month published their study, “The influence of welfare and bonds with animals on the job satisfaction of felid keepers in North America,” in "Zoo Biology." The interdisciplinary journal focuses on empirical aspects of the exhibition and maintenance of wild animals in wildlife parks, zoos, and aquariums. You can read the study abstract here. Ogle and co-author, Nick Nelson, also a Beacon student, published a second study, “Examining a general audience’s perception of cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus in education programming: A pilot study,” in “The Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research.” You can read the abstract here.
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Drs. A.J. Marsden and Nicki Nance shared their research at the Learning Disabilities of America 59th Annual International Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana with their presentation, “Emotional Intelligence & Academic Burnout in College Students with Learning Disabilities.” The study examined the relationship between academic burnout and emotional intelligence in college students with learning disabilities at two points in time during the spring 2021 semester — midterms week and finals week. View the presentation slides.
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Dr. Rosalyn Johnson, ’09, serves as a clinical director and designated mental health clinical authority at a regional juvenile detention center in Jacksonville, Florida, where she provides clinical supervision and oversight of the daily clinical operations and mental health and substance use services therapists provide at the Northeast Florida region's Juvenile Detention Center. She also works weekends as a licensed mental health counselor/therapist in the pediatric behavioral health in-patient crisis stabilization unit at Jacksonville non-profit hospital.
Moreover, she provides weekly clinical supervision to unlicensed master’s-level clinicians pursuing state licensure as a counselor in Florida and Georgia, provides weekly evening telehealth counseling as an independent contractor, while also maintaining her part-time telehealth private practice.
Johnson also is completing her master’s in business administration with a dual concentration in healthcare management and management/leadership at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her goal: rising into senior administrative positions or the C-Suite level.
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Laura Stone, ’10, has been working as a data entry specialist at Grace Givers Home Care in Crossville, Tennessee, which provides in-home services for seniors and respite care.
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Submit your Beacon College alumni updates, news, weddings, births, career changes, etc. for consideration in the next issue of the "Lighting the Path" newsletter. We look forward to hearing from you! EMAIL US
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Dr. Charles Vert Willie, honored in 2019 with a Beacon College honorary doctorate, died last month. He was 94.
Willie was the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His expertise on race helped shape desegregation efforts across the nation. An educator, activist, sociologist, and expert in school desegregation, Willie in 1950 became the first African-American professor at Syracuse University. He ultimately served as the chair of the department of sociology and the university’s vice president of student affairs, before moving on to Harvard. A prolific scholar, he has authored 30 books on race, gender, socioeconomics, religion, education, urban communities, and family dynamics. Still, this grandson of a former slave and self-described “applied sociologist” made perhaps his greatest social impact with his consultancy and expert testimony in desegregation trials in communities including Boston, Hartford, Dallas, Denver, and Lee County, Fla. and other cases intersecting his passions. You can read his obituary here.
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This episode of “A World of Difference” explores the magic of music for children who learn differently. You’ll meet two young men living on different continents but enjoying similar benefits from taking up a musical instrument.
Our “Ask the Experts” panel will explore the challenges and benefits music instruments hold for children who learn differently.
Later, we’ll introduce you to our latest “Difference Maker,” Ulysses Owens, Jr., a producer, educator, and entrepreneur who channeled ADHD into a Grammy-winning jazz career. Click the image to watch.
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Limited copies of the Beacon College 30th Anniversary remain available. “Beacon College: The Unique History of a Singular Institution” features 100+ pages chronicling the college’s founding and evolution, its multimodal pedagogy and unique learning-specialist education model, the social fabric, and the college’s global-leaning advocacy and innovation through narrative and personal reflections. Appendices offer a roll call and class photos of Beacon graduates, terms of service of the Board of Trustees, a timeline, and a salute to the “Life Abundant.” ORDER YOURS TODAY
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February 18 — Dr. Joan Cartwright, an internationally-known vocalist, composer, and author of 14 books, discusses how black singers in America emerged from spirituals and blues to develop jazz. Their free-spirited songs delivered messages of liberation, signaling to Africans in America that they could be free. Besides being effective entertainers, “blues women” provided the primary means of healing the human spirit. Click to register.
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Feb. 23 — Knowledge comes at a price and whoever possesses some knowledge becomes responsible for covering that cost. Epistemic responsibility is the term used to denote the duty one has respective to the knowledge one possesses. The central concern is this: what knowledge am I required to know, to share, or to keep to myself? In a digital world, epistemic responsibility becomes clouded but also expanded. Ignorance is no longer an acceptable option — not when at the touch of a button the knowledge to overcome that ignorance is readily available. In his lecture, “Let Me Google That!: Epistemic Responsibility and the Future of Scholarship,” Dr. Zachary Isrow will discuss how the digitalization of knowledge affects epistemic responsibility and in turn, how this presents an opportunity shift for scholars of the future. Click to register.
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Keep up with the latest COVID-19-related schedule and policy changes by monitoring the Beacon College COVID-19 Information Center. CLICK HERE
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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
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