August 15, 2014
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The Class of 2018 is here
The Class of 2018, more than 500 strong, gathered with their families last Friday for the Ceremony of Lights, the annual tradition marking the official start of Autumn Term for new Eckerd students. The day ended with a welcome picnic in Hough Quad and house meetings at residence halls. The upper classes return to campus for the start of the Fall Semester on Labor Day.
Retiring
with gratitude
Claire Stiles, Ph.D., professor emerita of human development (photo, bottom row center), is retiring after 37 years of distinguished service to Eckerd College. She will continue teaching a few classes during the coming academic year before settling into retirement full time.
Stiles doesn't plan to stop learning. "I'm an enthusiastic learner," she says. "I love to learn new things. I love to grow. It takes a lot of energy to teach at Eckerd because you are constantly being asked to try new things." She adds: "If there's one word to say it's gratitude that I ended up here," Stiles says. "I would not be the person I am today if I had not taught at Eckerd College." Read more
The World at Eckerd College
The World at Eckerd College
The World at Eckerd College
If you've ever wondered what it's like to be an Eckerd College student, or you're missing those wonderful times at your alma mater, click on the video link to the left. In nine minutes, you'lll learn everything about The World at Eckerd and how we have earned our reputation as one of the 40 Colleges That Change Lives.
Summer Reading:
Enrique's Journey
This year's summer reading assignment for all freshmen and seniors is Enrique's Journey by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazarios. The book is the harrowing tale of a Honduran boy who takes a perilous journey to find his mother, Lourdes Flores, who left him 11 years earlier to work in the U.S. This powerful book echoes with the immediacy of the ongoing refugee crisis along the U.S./Mexico border involving tens of thousands of Central American children who are escaping drug-fueled violence at home. Read the book now and then join us on Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Fox Hall for a very special presentation by Nazario and Flores. It will be the first time the two have ever appeared together to tell their story.  
Students study dolphins in bay

Student researchers, led by Associate Professor of Biology and Marine Science Shannon Gowans, Ph.D., returned to Boca Ciega Bay this summer to continue the Eckerd College Dolphin Project, which has been underway every summer since 1993. 

The main goal is educational: students get hands-on training in field research, literature review, scientific writing and analytical thinking.

But the project also gathers valuable information about bottlenose dolphins and the ecology of Boca Ciega Bay. 

The Tampa Tribune | WTVT-TV  

Spanish major
speaks at U.N.
It's not every day a college student addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Yet that's exactly what Eckerd College junior Julia Collins '16 found herself doing in June.
Julia, a double major in Spanish and International Business, was one of 60 students from around the world invited to speak at the UN as part of a foreign-language essay contest."The trip was such an amazing experience,'' saysJulia, who hails from Duluth, Ga. "I am so glad that I had both the chance to speak at the U.N. as well as the opportunity to meet all of the amazing people who participated in the forum." Read more. 
Turning trash into treasure
Eckerd's first Trash to Treasure campaign was a resounding success.
The project began in May with a mountain of discarded items left by seniors as spring term ended. Student volunteers collected the most usable items to sell to students, faculty and staff. Last week, the Class of 2018 bought mini refrigerators, microwave ovens, bicycles, coffee pots and a host of other items during a tag sale at Cobb Gallery. The project kept four tons out of the landfill, saved the college thousands of dollars in disposal fees, raised money for future sustainability projects and saved students (and their parents) money. Watch the ABC Action News report on the tag sale.
A proud PEL
alum takes over
Nearly 400 people filled Fox Hall on Wednesday to witness the swearing-in of Anthony Holloway as St. Petersburg police chief. Holloway (photo, far right), a 1999 graduateof Eckerd's Program for Experience Learners, was joined by fellow PEL graduates (left to right) St. Petersburg Fire Chief Jim Large, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and St. Petersburg City Council member Steve Kornell. Like most PEL students, Holloway worked nights and weekends to complete his Business Management degree. The experience changed his life, he says. "Chief Holloway is a leader, and he knows what needs to be done, and he knows how to do it," said St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman.
Things To Do 

Lectures

Enrique's Journey: An Evening with Sonia Nazario and Lourdes Flores

Thursday, Sept. 11

7:30 pm, Fox Hall

Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author

Lourdes Flores

Enrique's Mother

 

Something Worse Than This: Odysseus and the Long Journey Home

Tuesday, Sept. 23

7:30 pm, Fox Hall

Heather Vincent, Ph.D.

Eckerd College Associate Professor of Classics

 

Migration and Multicultural Identities

Wednesday, Sept. 24

6:30 pm, Miller Auditorium

Efr�n Nicol�s Leyva Acevedo

Consul to Mexico in Orlando

 

Art

Hidden Treasures and Recent Acquisitions II

Selected Works from the Eckerd College Permanent Collection

Sept. 1-Oct. 17, Cobb Gallery

 

Cultural Revolutions in China: A Review of Chinese

Contemporary Art Since the Revolution

Kirk Ke Wang Ph.D.

Eckerd College Professor of Visual Arts

Tuesday, Sept. 9, 7:30 pm, Miller Auditorium

 

The Annual IA Show

Interdisciplinary Arts Junior Portfolio Exhibition

Sept. 21-26, Elliott Gallery

Opening Reception: Sun., Sept.21, 3-5 pm

 

 

Film

A Clockwork Orange and Shadow Philosophy

Friday, Sept. 5, 7 pm,

Miller Auditorium

Screening of Film by 

Stanley Kubrick and

Discussion of Book by 

Nathan Andersen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Eckerd College

 

An Evening of Short Films

Friday, Sept. 12, 8 pm, 

Miller Auditorium

Screening of Short Films Produced by Members

of the Eckerd College and Tampa Bay Communities

Followed by Q&A with 

the Filmmakers

 

Athletics

Friday, Sept. 5
Men's Soccer
vs. Shorter University

Sunday, Sept. 7
Men's Soccer
vs. University of Alabama-Huntsville

Tuesday, Sept. 9
Women's Soccer
vs Florida Memorial University
Men's Soccer
vs. Clearwater 
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Overheard

"This is our vow to you: 
If you have the resolve, the commitment and the ambition to embrace the full experience of the life of the mind and the spirit, you will leave this College not simply with a diploma of which you will always be proud, but changed."

- Eckerd College President Donald R. Eastman III to the Class of 2018 during the Ceremony of Lights, Aug. 8, 2014

"To be a liberally educated person means that you open yourself up to new cultures, new ways of interpreting reality, new ways of seeing the world and a new appreciation for history."

- William F. Felice, associate dean of general education and professor of political science, in an Aug. 10 op-ed column in the .

"St. Petersburg is a good city. But nothing can go wrong faster in this town than if we have a bad police chief. This has to be the right choice."

- Political Science Professor Anthony Brunello, the Tampa Bay Times about St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman's search for a new police chief.
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