The Next Step: - Westminster College

Westminster Hires Offers Six M.Ed. New
in
Full-Time
Adventure
Faculty
Education
Beginning this summer, Westminster
College will offer a master’s degree in
adventure education.
The new graduate program blends
Westminster College’s faith heritage,
leadership training, and outdoor experiential
components into an innovative program for
classroom teachers, business leaders, trainers,
youth workers, camp staff, outdoor
professionals, and others who are interested
in learning alternative means of teaching and
learning through adventure programming.
“We believe that education, which models
life as an adventure, will transform the
world,” said Steven Montgomery, director
of Westminster’s Titan Traverse and
employee of the Coalition for Christian
Outreach. “Courses in adventure education
will combine academic thought and content
in tangible contexts with practical
applications. Students will study to learn
adventure education
from the perspective of
three anchor points:
conviction, character, and
community.”
Some of the courses
offered in the adventure
education curriculum
include: The Theology of
Recreation and Play,
Leadership in Adventure
Education, Effective
Group Development,
Critical Issues in
Adventure Education,
Design and Facilitation,
and Adventure Education
Administration.
Students can choose a master’s degree
track or a non-degree track, according to
Montgomery. The M.Ed. track requires the
www.westminster.edu
Westminster now offers a master’s degree in adventure
education. The program combines the College’s faith
heritage, leadership training and outdoor experiential
components for an alternative means of teaching and
learning through adventure programming.
completion of 30 hours of graduate work, and
includes philosophical, psychological, and
research foundations of education.
Point. Click. Give.
It’ll be that easy…
Soon Westminster alumni, parents and friends can make a gift using their
credit card and the new secure online giving option available for the first
time this summer on the College’s newly revamped Web site,
www.westminster.edu
New Wilmington
History Chronicle
Now Available
A new book covering New Wilmington’s
long and rich history is now available.
The History of New Wilmington, 1797-
2003: The Story of a Small Town was compiled
by a committee that included former
Westminster College professors and administrators,
including Delber McKee, professor
of history emeritus; Dewey DeWitt, professor
of chemistry emeritus and curator of
the College archives; Paul Gamble ’32, associate
professor of English emeritus and
College historian; Alan Sternbergh ’51,
former director of the College placement office;
and the late Eugene Sharkey, former
professor of history.
The 12-chapter book includes over 100
photographs and explores the history of the
borough, including sections on local government,
civic and community organizations,
churches and the Amish, Native Americans,
family histories, and, of course, Westminster
College.
The cost of the book is $29.95. Order
forms are available from the Westminster
alumni office or in the Westminster Bookstore.
2 Spring 2004 • Westminster College Magazine