July 2009

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Open House at LEED Platinum EcoDorm to be held Aug. 11
In economic good times and bad, WWC remains a Fiske “Best Buy”
EcoTeam program receives Progress Energy grant for 2 new lessons
Homecoming and Family Weekend are coming Oct. 2-4
WWC Chorale & Folk Choir “Spring 2009” CD now available
WWC on list of Chronicle’s “2009 Great Colleges to Work For”
Did you know?
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Open House at LEED Platinum EcoDorm to be held Aug. 11

An Open House is scheduled Aug. 11 from 4-6 p.m. at the EcoDorm, the first building on a college campus to be certified LEED Platinum in the category of Existing Buildings. Learn all about the EcoDorm at various stations around the building as we celebrate this singular achievement. See www.warren-wilson.edu/ecodorm to read more about the EcoDorm.

In economic good times and bad, WWC remains a Fiske “Best Buy”

For the fourth consecutive year, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has named Warren Wilson as one of its 24 “Best Buys” among private colleges and universities nationwide.

According to the 2010 guide, schools “qualify as Best Buys based on the quality of the academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance” – or as the guide also puts it, “outstanding academics with relatively modest prices.”

In addition to giving the college high marks for its academics and affordability, the Fiske guide awards Warren Wilson the highest possible rating for its overall quality of life: five stars, as opposed to the guide’s norm of three.

EcoTeam program receives Progress Energy grant for 2 new lessons

The EcoTeam program of the Environmental Leadership Center has been awarded a grant from Progress Energy Carolinas to help expand its curriculum to include new lessons on energy and climate.

The $2,000 grant for curriculum development is being awarded through Progress Energy’s Community Energy Advisory Council. Buncombe County educator Donalyn Small will develop the energy and climate lessons, working closely with WWC EcoTeam program manager Stan Cross, the 2007 N.C. Environmental Educator of the Year.

EcoTeam is a science-based environmental curriculum for third-grade students that correlates with the N.C. Standard Course of Study. The EcoTeam curriculum, taught by trained Warren Wilson students and focusing on the French Broad River Basin, has delivered lessons to thousands of third graders in Asheville and Buncombe County since its inception in 1998.

The Swannanoa in Summer circa 1940

Homecoming and Family Weekend are coming Oct. 2-4

Mark your calendar for Oct. 2-4 for Homecoming 2009 and Family Weekend. It’s your alumni reunion year if you graduated in 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1994, 1999 or 2004. Contact Rodney Lytle ’73 in the alumni office at alumni@warren-wilson.edu or 828-771-2046 if you’d like to help plan a social activity for your class.

Family Weekend is a time for current students’ families to have a Warren Wilson College experience of their own. Parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends are all invited to join us. For more information contact Ally Donlan, director of community relations, at 828-771-2092 or adonlan@warren-wilson.edu.

Look for more information in your mailbox soon!

WWC Chorale & Folk Choir “Spring 2009” CD now available

The “Spring 2009” CD by the WWC Chorale & Folk Choir, recorded and produced by White Sound Studio, is now available for purchase at the Campus Store. You also can purchase a copy by calling 828-771-3024 or by sending an e-mail to scoleman@warren-wilson.edu. In addition, the CD is available at Tune Town in Kittredge lobby during The Swannanoa Gathering, ending Aug. 8.

WWC on list of Chronicle’s “2009 Great Colleges to Work For”

Warren Wilson is among 150 four-year colleges recognized in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2009 Great Colleges to Work For® program. The program recognizes “small groups of colleges (based on enrollment size) for specific best practices and policies, such as compensation and benefits, faculty/administration relations and confidence in senior leadership.” Warren Wilson is one of only 11 colleges cited in the category of “Housing Assistance Programs” for faculty and staff, for schools with fewer than 3,000 students.

Did you know?

A total of 11 Warren Wilson students, alumni and staff were involved in the Montford Park Players’ production of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” in July. Warren Wilson alumna Charlotte Lawrence ’08, director of Warren Wilson Theatre's “Peter Pan” two seasons ago, directed “Cymbeline” at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Asheville. Other Warren Wilson people involved in the production were Franklin Stone, Robert Bailey, Lauren Kriel, Kat Evans, Jennifer Donovan, Laura French, Aaron Burnell, Ashley Werling, Will Franklin and David Mycoff.

In the media

“Shopping for Colleges?... Top Financial Finds of 2010” (WWC one of seven listed)

“WWC EcoDorm certified first LEED Platinum Existing Building on a college campus”

“Spotlight on Warren Wilson College”

“Asheville: From Field to Fork” (See Day 3: Farms & Foodways)

WWC recieves a good word on NPR's 'Living on Earth'

A WWC Alumna's research makes headlines

Swannanoa School of Culinary Arts in:

Mountain Xpress

WNC Magazine

Asheville Citizen Times

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