Thursday, September 8, 2016

Ten August PEL Graduates; Alumni News; Student News; Faculty/Staff News


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CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Warmest congratulations to these PEL students who completed their programs of studies and graduated in August, 2016 :

Richard P. Anglewicz (D), Business Management Major

Sherry Ball (H), Organizational Studies Major

Robert M. DiPalma (D), Humanities

Melanie R. Ducane, Human Development

Aaron Flinn (D), Business Management Major

James C. Fort, Environment & American Culture Concentration

Rashad Lewis, Business Management Major

Regina A. Perkins (HH), Organizational Studies Major

Thomas J. Pyche, Business Management Major

Monica L. Taylor (HH), Business Management Major

H - Honors; HH - High Honors; D - Distinction

Note: An academic class includes all graduates from June of one year through May of the following year. For instance, students who graduated in August or December 2016 and in January or May 2017 are all considered part of the Class of 2017.

Alumni News


Claudia Smith '13 promoting PEL

Kudos to Claudia Smith '13 (Business Management) who represented PEL at the Pasco County Employee Benefits Fair in New Port Richey in August. While many of the people she spoke with had heard of Eckerd and its reputation for excellence, many people were surprised and pleased to learn PEL has a Tampa campus. 

Thank you, Claudia, for helping us spread the word about PEL!














Dovév Weaver '16 with his new book.
Congratulations to Dovév Weaver '16 (Humanities) whose book, Chasing Your Dreams: Bound for Success was released recently. Weaver also was awarded a $1500 Passion Grant from his employer, Johnson & Johnson, Inc., an insurance company based in Charleston, SC. The grant will help Weaver, who calls himself Coach D, provide fifty copies of his books to a youth organization, develop a marketing plan, and build a website.

Weaver says Chasing Your Dreams: Bound for Success, which he began writing in 2011, is a story of how hate and unforgiveness kept him from accomplishing his goals.

"Once I was able to forgive [my biological father], I was able to move on and start chasing my ultimate dream of becoming a published author," Weaver said. Look for more information about Weaver's travels, his upcoming YouTube channel, and appearances on all social media platforms with the tag @coachdtalks.


Student News



Congratulations to PEL student Debra Butler who brought in the largest lady fish (2 lbs.) of 197 women anglers in the Nauti Girls Tournament, held in Steinhatchee this past July.

PEL student Pam Butler studied abroad in Italy this past summer on writing about Italian food. Check out the blog she created at http://www.mymediterraneanjourney.com/#home

***PEL students contributed 2000+ hours of community service during the 2015-2016 academic year.***

Faculty/Staff News

 

Congratulations to PEL Executive Director Amanda Hagood whose co-authored article "Classroom Ecotones: Connecting Place-Based Pedagogy and Blended Learning" will be published in a forthcoming issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Hagood, who was teaching an environmental literature course at Hendrix College in Arkansas, and a colleague who was teaching an environmental demography (sociology) course at Furman College in South Carolina, crossed disciplines and distances to help students "see both the commonalities shared between the social sciences and the humanities, as well as the value of our differing methods and perspectives on environmental issues" (p. 4). The article is available online to Eckerd people at http://isle.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/12/isle.isw043.full.pdf+html

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