Continuing its transformational generosity, The Edward C. Fogg III & Lisbeth A. Fogg Charitable Trust in December sowed $232,000 into growing its scholarship fund and enhancing student safety at Beacon College. READ MORE
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Talking the diversity talk |
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With diversity, equity, and inclusion at once now buzzwords and calls-to-action in the corporate and workaday world, Beacon College students and faculty continued the custom of communicating locally the value of neurodiversity by visiting Tavares Middle School last month for its annual disability Awareness Day. READ MORE
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In the eye of the beholder |
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During the 2021 winter holiday season, Beacon administrators stationed in the Daily Commercial building sported their best seasonally unfashionable warm-wear. Pictured from top left: Ronna Arnold; Darryl Owens; Audrey O'Shaughnessy; Mari Nakahara; Sandi Rysell, and Tina Morris. Click photo to see enlarged image.
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Congratulations to Brittany Strozzo, a business and technology instructor, who recently earned her master of fine arts degree in graphic design from Liberty University.
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Congratulations to Alex Morris-Wood, dean of admissions, transition programs, & strategic outreach, who was elected in December to the board of directors of Novus Academy. The Grapevine, Texas school educates middle and high school students who learn differently.
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Dr. William Nesbitt recently delivered presentations and chaired conversations at several conferences and conventions.
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At the European Beat Studies Network 10th Annual Conference, he presented “‘Just One Fix:’ William S. Burroughs and Ministry.”
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At the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 93rd Annual Convention, Nesbitt presented “The Sharpest Object: Family Networks and Dysfunctional Differences in Sharp Objects” and served as panel chair for “Poetry & Politics,” “Contemporary African-American Literature,” and “American Literature and Its Curios."
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From his first digital logo years ago as a teen to his polished portfolio today as an accomplished graphic designer, Dan Graff, ’19, has parlayed his talent and education into a career brimming with potential. READ MORE
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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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On this episode of the Beacon College-produced TV show, "A World of Difference," you’ll meet an Australian mom who’s using her artistic talent to paint a more inclusive landscape for people who learn differently. Our “Ask the Experts” panel will share how parents can help their kids who learn differently learn to love themselves. And you'll meet our latest “Difference Maker,” a journalist/historian with learning differences whose book “The Only Plane in the Sky” is widely considered the seminal account of 9/11. Click the image to view.
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Historian and author Dr. Michael Scheibach chronicles in his recent Beacon Salon Speaker Series presentation, “Protecting the Home Front: Women in Civil Defense During the 1950s”, how women of all ages and backgrounds played an essential role in civil defense during the 1950s and early 1960s — an era in which many Americans believed in the probability of an atomic attack by the Soviet Union. Click the image to view.
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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. Register today.
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Feb. 23 — 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. Register today.
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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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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama
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