{"id":151,"date":"2008-01-27T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.tusculum.edu\/news\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-01-27T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:43:01","slug":"diverse-tusculum-group-spends-time-in-study-of-themes-of-heroism-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/news\/2008\/diverse-tusculum-group-spends-time-in-study-of-themes-of-heroism-adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse Tusculum group spends time in study of themes of heroism, adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img alt=\"book_group.jpg\" id=\"image150\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_group.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A pilot event for a Tusculum College program entitled &#8220;Explorations in Thought&#8221; was held Jan. 11-12 at the Roan Mountain Bed and Breakfast at Roan Mountain, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>A group of faculty, staff and alumni, along with a member of the college&#8217;s Board of Trustees, joined to explore and discuss the theme &#8220;Heroism: the Persistence of the Human Spirit.&#8221; This was done through a common reading of Timothy Egan&#8217;s &#8220;The Worst Hard Time,&#8221; a book chronicling the struggles of Depression-era Americans who faced the &#8220;Dust Bowl,&#8221; the worst environmental disaster in American history.<\/p>\n<p>They also watched films with a similar focus on heroism: &#8220;Hotel Rwanda&#8221; and a film concerning Dr. Jeri Nielsen&#8217;s struggle to treat her own breast cancer while she was stationed at the South Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Participants also engaged in activities to foster further discussion of how to develop and honor heroes in the classroom and community as part of Tusculum College&#8217;s focus on the Civic Arts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a successful event, helping to develop campus community,&#8221; said one participating faculty member. &#8220;I enjoyed getting to know my colleagues and members of our broader campus community better. I have never considered addressing the issue of heroism before in class, but I am now considering ways to incorporate it into my course this block.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The concept for &#8220;Explorations in Thought&#8221; was suggested by Interim President Dr. Russell Nichols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\"><img alt=\"book_group.jpg\" id=\"image150\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_group.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A pilot event for a Tusculum College program entitled &#8220;Explorations in Thought&#8221; was held Jan. 11-12 at the Roan Mountain Bed and Breakfast at Roan Mountain, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>A group of faculty, staff and alumni, along with a member of the college&#8217;s Board of Trustees, joined to explore and discuss the theme &#8220;Heroism: the Persistence of the Human Spirit.&#8221; This was done through a common reading of Timothy Egan&#8217;s &#8220;The Worst Hard Time,&#8221; a book chronicling the struggles of Depression-era Americans who faced the &#8220;Dust Bowl,&#8221; the worst environmental disaster in American history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/news\/2008\/diverse-tusculum-group-spends-time-in-study-of-themes-of-heroism-adversity\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diverse Tusculum group spends time in study of themes of heroism, adversity :: Tusculum University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/news\/2008\/diverse-tusculum-group-spends-time-in-study-of-themes-of-heroism-adversity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diverse Tusculum group spends time in study of themes of heroism, adversity :: Tusculum University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A pilot event for a Tusculum College program entitled &#8220;Explorations in Thought&#8221; was held Jan. 11-12 at the Roan Mountain Bed and Breakfast at Roan Mountain, Tenn. 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