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Vol. 1, No. 9 - June 27, 2002
| $50K Gift from AT&T Foundation
Supports Tang Exhibition
The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation to support “From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection,” open through Sept. 29 at the museum. In announcing the grant, AT&T Regional Vice President John Ryan said, “AT&T remains committed to learning through the arts. It’s an honor to team with Skidmore College to provide students and the entire community with this world-class exhibit.” College President Jamienne S. Studley, noting the Tang as an example of “a new form of teaching,” expressed appreciation to AT&T for its “understanding of innovative teaching." Said Studley, “We value your imagination in seeing what is possible.” An array of free public programs and events has been organized throughout the summer to celebrate the exhibition. Activities will include gallery tours, lectures, evening “Dialogues” featuring exhibiting artists, a video and documentary film series, and a series of “Family Saturday” workshops. Details about “From Pop to Now” activities are available via the Skidmore online calendar. Tuition Exchange Program
Celebrates Anniversary Tuition Exchange (TE), a reciprocal scholarship program for children and other family members of faculty and staff employed at more than 520 participating institutions, was launched March 16, 1952, in Albany, N.Y., where 18 presidents, deans, and other officials representing 15 colleges and universities started the Exchange of Tuition for Faculty Children. The motivation behind the association was the need to attract professors to teach growing student numbers at colleges and universities. Within a year, 41 institutions were participating. TE was chartered in 1954 and expanded to include dependents of non-faculty staff. The Ford Foundation provided funding. Skidmore’s then-business manager, Dr. Fenton Keyes, was one of the five members of the original TE executive committee. Skidmore was a member of TE for three years, dropping out in 1955. In April 1992, the College rejoined the TE and has maintained its membership since then. This year more than 3,000 students received a TE scholarship. For more information on the program, click here. Mexico’s Water Problems Topic of Professor’s Book La Purificación Tepetitla: Agua potable y cambio social en el somontano (Drinking Water and Social Change in the Foothills), by Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, assistant professor of anthropology, has been published by Universidad Iberoamericana and Archivo Histórico del Agua, México, 2001. Providing safe and adequate drinking water supplies to a growing population has become one of Mexico’s most pressing social issues. To better understand the cultural and political dimensions of Mexico’s water problems, Ennis-McMillan analyzes the relationship between drinking water management and social change in La Purificación Tepetitla, a foothill community in the Valley of Mexico. Based on the author’s ethnographic and archival research conducted since 1993, the book explores how communities use traditional civil and religious institutions to address conflicts over local control of water supplies. Ennis-McMillan’s work highlights the importance of community-based resource management strategies for creating sustainable drinking water systems in developing countries. He completed the book during a sabbatical leave
for academic year 2001-02 while he was a visiting research fellow
at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California
at San Diego. Ennis-McMillan teaches courses in anthropology, environmental
studies, international affairs, and Latin American studies. |