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Office of Admission
P.O. Box 9000
Warren Wilson College
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

Toll-Free: 1-800-934-3536
Local: 1-828-771-2073
Fax: 1-828-298-1440

Email: admit@warren-wilson.edu

We find ourselves in an unusual enrollment predicament. In all our years, we have never had a full class before the May 1st deadline. Normally, deposits trickle in during the first week of May so that enrollment slowly builds up in a well mannered and orderly fashion. We appreciate that all of you entering this fall read the rules carefully but a greater number of you obeyed them and had your deposit in by May 1st, exactly by 5 pm. Subsequently, we are slightly over enrolled for the fall semester and we are looking for a few volunteers to consider one of the following opportunities:

Option: Outward Bound Semester
September 5th to November 13th, 2009
Earn 12 semester hours (credits) while participating in a semester long Outward Bound course with other incoming Warren Wilson College students. The course will take you from the forests of our own Appalachian Mountains to the Florida Everglades. The cost for this program is $9,900 and some partial scholarships may be available. However, your Warren Wilson financial aid package cannot be applied to this program and will be deferred to the spring semester, which begins in January of 2010.

Option: Deferred January Enrollment
Receive a one-time $2,000 scholarship applied to the spring semester by simply deferring your admission until January, 2010. Limited number available.

To be clear, you have a spot in the class entering August 17, 2009. Contacting your admission counselor does not commit you or us to one of these two options, but it will allow us to help decide if either of them are right for you. If these opportunities interest you, please contact your admission counselor at 800-934-3536, by May 20th.

In true Warren Wilson fashion, we seek creative solutions to a difficult (yet strangely wonderful) predicament.

Sincerely, The Folks in Admission

A Service-Learning Semester from the Appalachians to the Everglades (and back)
Overall Objective: Meld Warren Wilson's triad of Academics, Work, and Service with the outcomes of North Carolina Outward Bound's traditional programs based on the Four Pillars and Outward Bound methodology.

Academics:
Read and discuss one or two books throughout the course. (as determined by Warren Wilson)
Regular written reflective and critical thinking assignments peppered throughout.
Strong environmental education component, with short assignments.
WW professors periodically drop in as guest presenters (to discuss readings, service, ecology, etc).

Work:
Introduce and implement the College's work philosophy.

Service:
Service in communities on both ends of the journey, as well as along the way, based on North Carolina Outward Bound's Service Bus model.
Projects that are initially instructor driven, and ultimately, student designed.

Outward Bound design principles:
Use of traditional Outward Bound components and progressions designed to provide challenge and adventure, achieve technical skills mastery, and develop life skills that result in personal growth and a commitment to serve

Other design bits:
Culminating events include a final backpacking expedition and service project in NC.

Wilderness Course:
72-day Warren Wilson College - Outward Bound, Service Learning Semester
Wilderness Course Dates: TBD - between WWC fall semester dates.
Wilderness Activities
Expedition Backpacking
Rock Climbing
Whitewater Canoeing
Coastal Canoeing (Florida, Ten Thousand Islands / Everglades National Park)
Initiatives, Discussions, Workshops
Solo Reflection
Service

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