Fall 2014 Academic Cultural Enrichment Series (ACES) Schedule
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Fall 2014 Academic Cultural Enrichment Series (ACES) Schedule
Artist: Guy Stauber
“The Traveling Tea Cup” by Synthia Saint James
2
HISTORY OF ACES
When Bennett College was co-ed, long before it became a women’s college, it
was felt that graduates of Bennett College needed more than “book learning”
and intellectual discourse to be successful. Bennett College graduates needed to
be well-rounded; the whole person needed to be prepared to deal with the ev-
er-changing world. Therefore, as students, they needed to have opportunities to
come together as a community and have common cultural and spiritual experiences. Thus, special convocations, lectures and semi-
nars, now known collectively as the Academic Cultural Enrichment Series (ACES), became a part of the Bennett way of life.
Throughout her existence, Bennett College has always afforded her students with opportunities to interact with well-known
personalities and dignitaries. Female “movers and shakers”, artists, performers, political figures and spiritual leaders have
graced our campus and impacted the lives of faculty, students and members of the local community. These experiences afford
students the opportunity to enhance their cultural and intellectual development, learn how to appreciate and accept ideas and
beliefs different from theirs, learn how to listen, dress in professional attire and acquire behaviors that often make a significant
difference in how one is perceived and accepted by others. Bennett students, by way of ACES, learn those things that easily
identify them as a woman of the 21st Century—a Bennett woman—who knows what is appropriate.
3
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Welcome Bennett Belles:
Bennett College’s undergirding philosophy is that a high quality college experience should provide its students with
strong academic and co-curricular programs that encourage their personal development, endorse life-long learning,
and prepare them to meet the needs of an ever-changing society. The Academic and Cultural Enrichment Series
(ACES) is designed to pique your interests in concepts and circumstances that are impacting our world today and may
provide context for your future decisions. As young professionals, you must learn to receive information, critique it,
and develop your own opinions, which you are confident in discussing with others. We will provide the forum; but,
your presence and engagement is essential to your success. These sessions represent your initial investment in your
future. This is your opportunity to link into the legacy of Bennett Belles that preceded your arrival and upon whose
shoulders you stand today.
This administration has adopted the theme of #BennettBuilds! Using the vernacular of today’s youth, this phrase cap-
tures the rich history of this institution to educate and edify young women converting them from ingénues to outstand-
ing graduates ready to lead in board rooms, courtrooms or classrooms around the world. Bennett College builds many skills, experiences and memo-
ries for each of you; however, we hope the most memorable experiences will emanate from ACES. While former Belles have built upon the concepts
and ideas which they heard while enrolled, now, it’s your turn to participate in the building process. I encourage you to actively participate, engag-
ing your mind. I encourage you to review articles, news blogs, and other resources that discuss alternate positions from those presented by the speak-
ers. As a liberal arts college, we endorse the concept that you will be exposed to a variety of diverse ideas which will broaden your exposure to
different concepts than you normally engage. These steps outside the classroom will pay off as you build upon the intellectual exchanges within the
classrooms.
So take a moment and flip through the pages, noting the outline of a very strong series. I look forward to seeing the future that you begin to build
for yourself and the future Bennett Belle that you will become!
All the best,
Rosalind Fuse-Hall, J.D.
President
4
PROVOST’S MESSAGE
Greetings Bennett Belles:
I hope you had a wonderful Summer Break—whether you were traveling, working, or catching up with family and friends.
Maybe some of you did all of that! Whatever your experience this past year and during the break, I hope you are ready to
begin the semester.
As a Bennett Belle, there are many things, many traditions, that you either have come to know or will come to know. But you will
come to understand what I believe is most important about this place—that it is a center of new and original thoughts and ideas.
And it is ideas that are ultimately most important in this world.
Isaiah Berlin remarked that governments fall because of ideas developed by a professor in the quiet of his study. At the begin-
ning of the 20th century, Americans could expect to live only to the age of about 47. Today, you all can expect to live, barring
unforeseen and unexpected problems, until nearly the age of 80. And there’s really only one fundamental reason, new ideas in
the medical and biological sciences.
We think about the conceptions we have of ourselves, conceptions we have of our family, conceptions we have of relations be-
tween the sexes. They are the way they are today only because of the development of new ideas, new conceptions, new theo-
ries, new imaginations.
Bennett College, like any other, is, above all, founded on a core conviction that ideas, their development, and their transmission are ultimately what is important. I
once read how the great jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, once said that he had been—and these are his words—”set on fire in his freshman year by reading the
essays of Emerson.” If I had but one wish for each of you, it is that, regardless of your classification, in the years ahead you be set on fire, that your mind be cap-
tured by some set of external questions, by some area of human understanding; that you develop a passion for understanding, for progressing, that is so central to
people everywhere.
Bennett College and its faculty and staff have no more important goal than helping you in this quest. How? Well, fires sometimes can’t be controlled. Passions
can’t be predicted or planned. You are all different but share one thing in common—you are Bennett Belles.
As a Bennett Belle, please take advantage of all that the institution has to offer. You can begin by participating in the Academic and Cultural Enrichment Series
(ACES). The various programs offered Tuesdays and Thursdays each week will challenge you to think, analyze, and take action to effect positive change in your
lives. I encourage you to attend all ACES programs not merely as an observer but as an active participant.
Enjoy this academic year.
Best,
Joyce Blackwell, Ph.D.
Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs
5
POLICIES & PROCEDURES
ALL students, except those with an approved waiver, are “required to attend ACES every Tuesday and Thursday”. Students are to follow all procedures as written below to
receive semester credit:
If students arrive later than 15 minutes after the program begins, they must go to the balcony and they will not receive ACES credit.
At the conclusion of the program, all student attendees, marshals and program participants must present a FALL 2014 ID card for scanning to receive credit.
If students’ ID cards are lost, damaged, invalid, or if they have other ID concerns, see Ms. Fodina Henderson Academic Advisor/ ACES Coordinator, immediately after the pro-
gram or no later than two business days after the program date. Students will not be allowed to go to their room or off-campus residence to retrieve their ID card to receive
credit. In addition, they will not receive credit if they have lost their ID or if it is has been stolen. It is the students’ responsibility to inform the Office of Student Affairs to re-
place it. The replacement fee is $75.00.
Students may not present an ID card for another student.
Students may not text or send messages on the cell phone or computer, type homework assignments, play games on the computer, or cell phone, chew gum, eat or drink,
engage in active conversations, and disrespect the guests/speakers during an ACES event.
GRADING
The ACES attendance requirement is applicable to all full-time students for each semester of enrollment. To receive a grade of “E” (excellent), it is mandatory that students
attend all regularly scheduled ACES programs. To receive a grade of “S”, it is mandatory that students attend 75% of the scheduled programs. Otherwise, you will earn a
”U” (unsatisfactory) for the final grade for ACES programs. This is in keeping with the College’s class attendance policy. A grade will appear on the student’s transcript each
semester.
ATTIRE
Standard attire for ACES programs includes dresses, skirts, business dress pants and pant suits. These items should be suitable for work, internships, presentations and partici-
pation in business and academic functions.
Students wearing jeans, khakis of any color or corduroy pants, midriff-baring tops, ankle or drawstring pants, gauchos, capris, halter tops, tennis shoes or flip-flops will not be
allowed to attend ACES or receive credit for attendance.
Dresses, skirts and skirt suits are required attire for formal convocations which include: Convocatum Est, Founder’s Day, Honors Convocation, Senior Day and Charter Day. Cred-
it will not be awarded for pants or pant suits for the formal programs. Failure to comply with the standard attire for such programs will result in students not receiving credit.
WAIVERS
If there are circumstances (off-campus job, internship, etc.) which prevent students from attending all the regular scheduled ACES programs for the semester, they must apply
for an attendance waiver no later than Monday, October 6, 2014.
If students are granted an ACES waiver, they must attend 10% of the total programs scheduled for the semester (includes Bonus ACES programs). FAILURE TO COMPLETE
THIS REQUIREMENT WILL RESULT IN AN UNSATISFACTORY GRADE FOR THE SEMESTER.
To apply for an ACES waiver or to discuss extenuating circumstances, students must see Ms. Fodina Henderson Academic Advisor/ ACES Coordinator, by Monday, October 6,
2014. All ACES waiver requests are subject to approval; therefore, the requests must be submitted each semester.
CONTINGENCIES
if you earn a grade of “U” in any semester, students may not receive academic honors during Honors Convocation or apply for membership in any national sorority sanctioned
by the College.
If students decide to run for a class office or SGA office, their ACES grade must be “S” for every semester prior to their application.
6
FALL 2014 ACES WAIVER GUIDELINES
Deadline: Monday, October 6, 2014 (no exceptions)
Requests will not be accepted after the above deadline.
The Number of Points Required for Satisfactory with an Approved Waiver: 11
ACES Waiver Requests will be accepted in the Office of the Academic Advising during the following days and times:
Monday through Friday only
9:00 a.m.—11:00 a.m.
2:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.
CRITERIA
1) Internships or Practicums: Faculty members must provide a complete list of all student participants by Monday, October 6th
however, students must contact Ms. Jennifer Garner in the Office of the Associate Provost to obtain, complete and submit an
ACES Waiver form. Students must provide the academic advisor with their Bennett student identification number.
VERY IMPORTANT:
Faculty should inform ALL participating students to complete an ACES waiver form no later than Monday, October 6th.
Waiver forms are located in the Office of the Associate Provost.
2) Consortium Classes: Class times must conflict with the ACES hour to be excused. Students must provide a PHOTOCOPY of
their class schedule to Ms. Fodina Henderson, Academic Advising. Do not submit the original copy.
3) Employment: Students must submit to Ms. Fodina Henderson located on the 1st Floor of Merner Hall, their work schedule on
company letterhead with a business card and signature from their manager or supervisor showing the days and times they are
scheduled to work. Additional documentation may be requested.
*DOCUMENTATION MUST BE PRESENTED IN PERSON.*
*PLEASE DO NOT SLIDE DOCUMENTS UNDER MS. HENDERSON’S OFFICE DOOR.*
7
Total Number of Points—32
Number Needed for Satisfactory— 23
Number Needed for Satisfactory with a Waiver— 11 AUGUST
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
College Opens
WELCOME WEEK/ NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
CASUAL WHITE
BREAKFAST
First Day of Classes
8:30 AM– 10:00 AM
WELCOME WEEK/ NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
CONVOCATUM EST
Majors Meeting
11:00 am
CHAPEL
1 point
3 points
8
Total Number of Points— 32
Number Needed for Satisfactory—23
Number Needed for Satisfactory with a Waiver—11
SEPTEMBER
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
LABOR DAY/ Ms. Rachel Pridgen Mr. & Mrs. Emeka Anazia
NO CLASSES Student Affairs Author- Acing the Under-
Student Induction grad-
Chapel Your Personal Mentor
11:00 am Chapel
1 point 11:00 am
1 point
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Mr. Darryl Johnson
Dr. Althea Truesdale
First Year Experience Leadership Series: Building
Connects Beyond Graduation
Chapel
11:00 am 11:00 am
1 point Chapel
1 point
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Dr. Karen Dyer
Dr. Natalie McLean
Educational Group,
Campus Ministries
Director Center
Presents...
For Creative Leadership
Chapel
Chapel
11:00 am
11:00 am
1 point
1 point
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Dr. Natalie McLean President’s Office ACES
Campus Ministires
It’s Time to Come Home Program
Chapel
11:00 am 1 point
1 point
Family and Friends Weekend/ President Inauguration
28 29 30
Founder’s Day Ms. Otey and Ms. Washington
Chapel Scholarship Resources
3 points Chapel
11:00 am
1 point
9
Total Number of Points—32
Number Needed for Satisfactory—23
Number Needed for Satisfactory with a Waiver—11
October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4
Dr. Natalie McLean
Mid-Term Encouragement
Campus Ministries
Chapel
11:00 am
1 point
5 6 7 Dr. Baker 8 9 10 11
Division of Humanities
Corey Leak,
Tenor in Concert MID TERM EXAMINATIONS
11:00 am
Chapel
1 point
12 13 14 15 16 Dr. Sharon Gaskin 17 18
Associate Dean of
FALL BREAK/NO BENNETT CLASSES Classes Resume Admissions
Elon School of Law
11:00 am
Chapel
1 point
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Ms. Robin Campbell HONORS CONVOCATION
Domestic Violence
11:00 am
CHAPEL
Chapel 11:00 am
1 point
3 points
26 27 28 29 30 31
Mr. Darryl Johnson Dr. L. Bland & P. Pierce
Leadership Series: Building Con- Women’s Health
nects Beyond
Graduation 11:00 am
11:00 am Chapel
Chapel 1 point
1 point
10Total Number of Points—32
Number Needed for Satisfactory— 23
Number Needed for Satisfactory with a Waiver—11 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Ms. Tara Ayers Honorable Patrice Hinnant
Relationships and Family Superior Court Judge
Dynamics Chapel
Chapel 11:00 am
11:00 am 1 point
1 point
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Dr. Joyce Dixon
Business/Social
President’s Office ACES
Etiquette Chapel Program
11:00 am
1 point 1 point
Bonus ACES Daddyless
Daughters 6:30 pm
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Ms. Lee Todhunter & Ms. Ms. Lee Todhunter & Ms.
Irma White Irma White
Center for Global Studies Center for Global Studies
Chapel Chapel
11:00 am 11:00 am
1 point 1 point
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Thanksgiving Holiday/College Closed-No Classes
30 11Total Number of Points—32
Number Needed for Satisfactory— 23 December
Number Needed for Satisfactory with a Waiver—11
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
CLASSES RESUME South Africa Trip LAST DAY OF CLASSES READING DAY
Chapel
11:00 am
1 point
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
College Closed
FINAL EXAMINATIONS
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
12FALL SEMESTER 2014 ACADEMIC CALDENDAR
11 August College Opens (Monday) 28 September Founder’s Day
11 August General Assembly (AM) Faculty/Staff Institute (PM) 7 October Academic Advisors Meeting
12 August Faculty Institute/ New Faculty Orientation 8-10 October Mid-semester Examinations
12 August SOARS Program Participant Invitation (Tuesday) 13-14 October Fall Break– No Bennett Classes
13-19 August Welcome Week/New Student Orientation– Residence Halls 15 October Classes Resume at 8:00 AM (Wednesday)
Open
15 October Mid-Semester Grades Due for Fall 2014 (5:00 PM)
14 August NEW STUDENT—Placement Test and Pre-Advising
23 October HONORS CONVOCATION (Thursday)
15 August NEW STUDENT ONLY– Academic Advising and Course
24 October Spring 2015 schedule revisions due from Division/Department
Registration
Chairs
16 August Residence Halls Open for Upper– Class Students
24 October DEADLINE: Last Day to Withdraw from a course with “WP”- With
17 August ST. MATTHEWS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH DAY (SUNDAY) draw without Penalty (After this date a student who withdraws will
receive earned grade)
18-20 August Returning Students– Academic Advising and Course
Registration 21-22 October Early Spring 2015 Course Registration (RISING SENIOR ONLY-CLASS
OF 2015)
19 August CASUAL WHITE BREAKFAST (8:30 AM– 10:00 AM)
27-31 October Academic Advising & Course Registration for Spring 2015 begins
19 August Registration Ends (5:00 pm)
25 November Thanksgiving Holiday (Classes end at Noon) Residence Halls close
20 August First Day of Classes (Wednesday)
3 pm (Tuesday)
20 August ADD/DROP Period Begins (Late Registration fee imposed)
26-28 November Holiday/ Thanksgiving– College Closed/ No Classes
28 August Convocatum EST (Thursday)
30 November Residence Halls Re-Open (8:00 AM)
29 August ADD/DROP Period Ends (After this date a student who
1 December Classes Resume at 8:00 AM
withdraws from a course will receive a grade of “WP”-
4 December Last Day of Classes (Thursday)
Withdrawal without Penalty)
5 December Reading Period (Friday)
1 September Holiday/ Labor Day– Campus Closed/ No Classes
8-11 December FINAL EXAMINATIONS
25 September Summer School Transcripts Due
12 December Residence Halls Close (5:00 PM)
26 September DEADLINE: Last day to convert “I”- Incomplete grade (Spring
2014) to a Permanent Grade 12 December COLLEGE CLOSED until 5 January 2015
25-28 September Family and Friends Weekend/ Presidential Inauguration 15 December All final grades due by faculty in BelleNet (5:00 PM)
1314
ALMA MATER
Words by Carol Cotton—Music by Edith Player Brown
Bennett now our voices raise,
Harmonies of grateful praise;
We thy daughters find thee fair,
Loyalty thy colors bear,
Truth and honor in thy halls,
Faith and love within thy walls;
Ever dear to us thou art,
Firm within each loyal heart.
CHORUS
Alma Mater, now we sing,
Hail the light that thy dost bring;
True we’ve been throughout the past,
True to thee while life shall last.
May we never smirch the good, Gendered here in sisterhood;
May we ever choose aright,
Guided by the honor bright;
Ever lovelier shalt thou live, As thy daughters freely give;
Ever glorious above,
Testimonies of our love.
‘Til the evening shadows fall; ‘Til we heed our last clear call
Mother, may we offer thee
Lives of worth and purity?
Go with us throughout the years.
Smile on us in doubts and fears;
Bless us with thy tender care,
Mother, fairest of the fair!
15HISTORY OF BENNETT COLLEGE
Bennett College is the only historically African American college for women in North Carolina and is one of two in the country. A private, four year liberal arts
college, it is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1873, the College held its first sessions in the basement of Warnersville Methodist Episcopal
Church (now known as St. Matthews United Methodist Church).
Seventy young men and women started by studying elementary and secondary studies, and a group of emancipated slaves purchased the present site for the
school. College level studies and permanent facilities were added. In 1924, sensing a great need for the education of Black women, the Women’s Home Missionary
Society and Board of Education of the Methodist Church voted to make Bennett College an institution for women in 1926. The College graduated its first class in
1930.
For over 139 years, the College has been a place where intellectual development and exploration of ideas are honored and constantly encouraged while, at the
same time, preparation for a productive and successful life is seen as a necessity. Respect for differences and concern for the individual student are strong tradi-
tions at the College.
Today, Bennett prepares contemporary women for a complex and competitive world, and its many graduates have been recognized as leaders in a large variety
of disciplines, including medicine, law, education, government and religion. While Bennett is a historically Black college, the College welcomes and encourages stu-
dents from all ethnic and racial backgrounds. The faculty has always been, and continues to be, internationally and racially diverse. The College looks to the ever-
changing demands of the present and future by recognizing the necessity of training its students for graduate studies and leadership roles in science and technolo-
gy, global systems, public policy, communications, and in issues as world hunger, environmental changes, and global health.
It seeks to do so by offering a strong undergraduate academic foundation, while nurturing and strengthening the personal development of each young woman who
comes through its doors. Bennett women are encouraged to be resilient and flexible in the face of modern and strenuous demands on those who would be leaders.
To that end, the College provides a space that is caring, responsive to the dreams of its students and their desires for achievement, and respectful of their individu-
al needs. Bennett confers degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Social Work, and Bachelor of
Fine Arts.
Bennett College defines an educated woman as one who is not only academically prepared for the next step in her educational training and serious about learn-
ing, but who is also receptive to intellectual expansion and diversity, and is determined to serve humanity.
16“Educating and Celebrating Women Since 1873”
For questions and concerns, contact:
Ms. Fodina Henderson, ACES Activity Coordinator
336-370-8625 fhenderson@bennett.edu Merner Hall
Ms. Jennifer Garner, ACES Co-Coordinator
Office of the Associate Provost
336-517-1854 jgarner@bennett.edu
“Bennett College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate
degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the
accreditation of Bennett College”
Bennett College prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, age or status as a disabled veteran in admission, access to, treatment of, or employment in its programs or activities.
Bennett College is a United Methodist Church-related institution.
17You can also read
