September 2008
Doylestown, PA -- (September 26, 2008) - Delaware Valley College will host four students and a faculty from the University of Podlaskie of Siedlce, Poland, as the second leg of the Piszek/Evans Exchange Program, an ongoing exchange of visits of students, faculty and staff between the institutions.
In its second year of exchanges between schools, the first leg of this year's exchange took place in May when Delaware Valley College students and faculty traveled to Poland to research, review and learn about the agriculture industry in Poland.
DelVal's guests will arrive October 12 for a week of learning about the agriculture industry in the United States. The individuals from the Polish contingent will tour the Delaware Valley College agricultural and equine operations and greater Doylestown, they will attend lectures and meetings, visit museums, visit working farms throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania and visit the Amish countryside and historical Philadelphia.
The University of Podlaskie (Akademia Podlaska), founded in 1969, is considered a premier agriculture education university in Poland. This past spring, Howard Eyre, Assistant Professor of Ornamental Horticulture, and four DelVal students visited the Polish university for the first part of the exchange.
The agreement stems from each institution's efforts to globalize curriculum and experiences for their campus community. The goal is to provide students, faculty and staff from DelVal and Podlaskie international academic and cultural experiences as an integral component to their personal, academic and professional growth. Students will learn agricultural marketing practices in another country, exchange information on developing the agricultural industry in Poland, experience cultural traits, lifestyles, customs, traditions and work ethics of foreigners and establish links between educators and students.
The program is funded by the Copernicus Society of America and the Copernicus Foundation in Poland. The exchange is named for the late Edward Piszek, founder and CEO of the "Mrs. Paul's" frozen foods empire whose philanthropy founded the Copernicus Society of America, and Dr. Donald Evans, professor of extension education, who contributed substantially to the development the Polish Agricultural Extension Program.
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Doylestown, PA - (September 24, 2008) -- Delaware Valley College instructor and access services librarian Sarah Eshelman Penniman of Lansdale (formerly of Mohnton, PA) co-wrote an article titled "Green Weeding: Promoting Ecofriendly Options for Library Discards" for the September 15 issue of Library Journal. The article showcased both traditional and creative solutions for libraries looking to weed their collections in environmentally-responsible ways.
"Today's libraries have a great chance of finding new homes for their withdrawn materials, thanks in part to the many organizations that now resell, reuse or redistribute the books on the libraries' behalf," said Penniman, who co-wrote the article with Lisa McColl, a librarian at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, PA.
Penniman joined the DelVal staff in January. She earned her bachelor's degree in Spanish at Dickinson College, her master's degree in literature from American University and her master's degree in library science at Drexel University.
Library Journal is the oldest publication covering the library field and is read by more than 100,000 library directors, administrators and staff in public, academic and special libraries.
To learn more about the Joseph Krauskopf Memorial Library of Delaware Valley College, please feel free to visit the library homepage at http://delval.edu/library.
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Doylestown, PA - (September 24, 2008) -- Delaware Valley College senior, Sara Brown of Troy, PA, an ornamental horticulture and environmental design major with a specialization in floriculture, will present a seminar, Friday, September 26 at 10:50 a.m. in Greenhouse Room 1 on the Delaware Valley College campus.
The seminar is free and open to the public. It is titled, "Domestic Cut Flower Production," and Brown will discuss the cut flower industry in the United States including current trends, production in the US and organic growers during her presentation.
To learn more about Delaware Valley College's Ornamental Horticulture and Environmental Design major, as well as other programs in our Natural Resources and Biosystems Management department, please feel free to visit the department website http://delval.edu/natural.
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Doylestown, PA - (September 24, 2008) -- Delaware Valley College's Students for Diversity will host a night of salsa dancing 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday, October 2 in the College's Coffeehouse.
Students, faculty and staff will find partners for Latin dance lessons and a historical and cultural lesson on salsa and other Latin dances.
The Students for Diversity selected members of the Salsita Dance Studio to run the event. Salsita instructors are experts in music, geography and psychology, with extensive knowledge about the history and culture of Salsa.
"It's a fun approach to teach students, faculty and staff about the history and culture of Salsa and other Latin dancing," said Celeste N. Preston, DelVal student and president of Student's for Diversity. "We hope to bring in other programs like this that provide a great learning opportunity with all of our college community in an exciting, high-energy environment."
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Doylestown, PA - (September 18, 2008) -- More than 500,000 hate crimes strike college campuses each year. The FBI estimates one hate crime happens every day on a college campus.
Delaware Vallery College, courtesy of the Office of the President and the Committee on Race, Culture and Diversity, welcomes Brandon Wilson of the Wilbron Institute to help explore issues of race, diversity and tolerance. Wilson invites students, faculty, staff and friends to "learn to prevent and respond to hate on campus" on Wednesday, September 24, from 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the APR.
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Doylestown, PA - (September 15, 2008) -- Congratulations to head coach Jim Clements and the Aggie football team as they came from behind and defeated the third-ranked team in Division III, Wesley College, 25-22 on Saturday afternoon at the stadium. The game-winning touchdown came on a fourth-down play with just 10.6 seconds remaining, and it's the first time DelVal has beaten a Top-5 opponent.
The win has made Delaware Valley the talk of the Division III landscape this week. Click the link below to hear the play-by-play call of the game-winning touchdown as heard on the DelVal Internet Broadcast.
| DelVal vs. Wesley College the recording or download here |
To learn more about how our Aggies, feel free to check out our new Athletics website at athletics.delval.edu. All Athletic news provided courtesy of Matthew Levy, Associate Athletic Director and Sports Information Director.
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Doylestown, PA - (September 11, 2008) -- Jane Elliott, internationally-known teacher, lecturer and diversity trainer spoke at Delaware Valley College at 7 p.m., on Thursday, September 11 in the Delaware Valley College Student Center.
The event, which was free and open to the public, was sponsored by the Office of the President, the college's Students for Diversity Group and the Student Activities Department.
During the lectures, Elliott, exposed prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.
Elliott developed the now famous exercise that explored the nature of racism, prejudice and discrimination. She did this in the context of her all-white classroom by dividing her students into two groups on the basis of eye color, blue or brown. On the first day, Elliott told her students that possessing blue eyes indicated superiority in intelligence and conferred extra classroom privileges while having brown eyes indicated inferiority. Quickly, the students of the "superior" color began to oppress those of the "inferior" color, while those of the "inferior" color exhibited negative feelings of self-loathing and fear. The next day, Elliott reversed the exercise, telling the students that her statements the previous day were untrue, and that the reverse situation now prevailed. The same children who had been oppressed the day before quickly took on the oppressing role and vice versa.
"Ms. Elliott's work underscores the importance of tolerance and understanding among individuals and is a timely reminder of the need to respect our differences and value the dignity of each individual," said Delaware Valley College President Joseph S. Brosnan.
Elliott is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, and today Elliott lectures and conducts her Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes exercise around the world at high schools and colleges and corporations.
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Doylestown, PA - (September 3, 2008) -- Delaware Valley College is kicking off the 2008-2009 concert season with a special performance by the college's acclaimed Jazz Band and Concert Band on Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 PM. The concert will be held in the Delaware Valley College Student Center Auditorium. Admission is free.
The special "Back to School" concert will feature big band favorites and popular works for concert band. Included in the program will be Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood," Miles Davis' "Boplicity," Franz von Suppé's "Light Cavalry Overture," Gustav Holst's "Suite No. 1 for Band" and Jerry Nowak's arrangement of "Chicago (My Kind of Town)." The concert will conclude with a suite from the recent movie, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Both the Delaware Valley College Concert Band and the Delaware Valley College Jazz Band consist of Delaware Valley College students and talented musicians from the Doylestown community. Members range in age from 17 to 80+ years of age.
Delaware Valley College is committed to presenting high-quality, entertaining and educational programs suitable for audiences of all ages. The college is located on Route 202, one mile south of Doylestown. For more information, please feel free to contact 215-489-2233.