Transitions Magazine Spring 2013 - Prescott College

President’s CornerWe find ourselves in the heart of the Spring 2013 semester at Prescott College,and we can look back at Fall 2012 with pride at all we’ve accomplished, andlook to the year ahead with excitement at our continuing successes. This fall weopened our new student residences—the Village—and welcomed 91 students totheir new home. The overwhelming report from students is that the facilities andthe camaraderie this living space creates constitute a real asset for the College. Bythe time this magazine is published we should know what level of LEED certificationwe achieved for this state-of-the-art sustainable housing complex.A kudo of particular note is that Prescott College has been named the Associationof Experiential Education’s Organization of the Year. Quite an honor!Another kudo goes to our Tucson location as we celebrate its 25th anniversary.Our presence in Tucson has been an important point of outreach, and we hopeto honor this year the Tucson location’s faculty, staff, and students, both past andpresent. Currently, as part of our social justice mission, Prescott College in Tucsonis offering a banned Chicano Studies course for college credit (page 5). Finally,we honor Mary Trevor, who is retiring after 12 years as registrar. Her contributionsto professionalizing administrative services and our compliance with federaland state regulations have been profound (page 22).This issue of Transitions focuses on natural history, a part of the College’s DNAsince its founding. Beginning with the Ford Foundation Symposium that gavebirth to the College fifty years ago and running up to the present day, studentsand alumni carry a love and understanding of the natural world with them for alifetime. For example, alumni a generation apart have carried this love into theircareers: Matt Blake ’00 and Lisa Garrison ’75 have partnered on conservationefforts in the Northeast (page 11); and Julie Brown ’01 is the Ocean EducationCoordinator for National Geographic (page 17). On campus today our NaturalHistory Institute is opening as a resource not only for our students but alsofor the local community and beyond (page 6). The Institute features a collectionof natural history prints given to the college by the Arader Galleries, and inNovember our own Sam Hill Art Gallery will mount a special exhibit of theseprints. They will also be on continuing display at various locations around campus(page 14).Enjoy these pages as they feature aspects of the College’s ongoing story thatstarted some fifty years ago and persist today.Best wishes,Dr. Kristin R. WooleverPresident Woolever speaks at Commencement, 20102Transitions Spring 2013