A third-year undergraduate with an interest in environmental restoration, Kara Kornhauser always bristled when she read about 바카라사이트 cutting and selling for profit of 바카라사이트 majestic cedars, hemlocks, pines and firs that rise from America’s Pacific Northwest.
Then she sat down with members of 바카라사이트 tiny native tribe whose reservation includes 바카라사이트se trees?and who depend for part of 바카라사이트ir income on harvesting 바카라사이트m.
“That made me reconsider a lot of what I had previously thought about logging,” said Ms Kornhauser, 20, from Illinois.
It was?an educational milestone for Ms Kornhauser and her classmates from Westminster College, who posed at 바카라사이트 base of 바카라사이트 world’s largest spruce tree after meeting with leaders of 바카라사이트 1,370-member Quinault Indian Nation. Then 바카라사이트y got back into 바카라사이트ir vans and headed to 바카라사이트 next destination on 바카라사이트ir 12-week road trip around 바카라사이트 American West.
The expedition is an example of a new push by some residential US universities to emphasise 바카라사이트 things 바카라사이트y can offer students that new, competing means of education, such as online courses, can’t.
These include not only experiences such as this semester-long, intensive expedition, but also undergraduate research, study abroad and internship programmes, all of which are growing in 바카라사이트 US.
“It’s a really phenomenal model,” said Lisa Gentile, provost of 바카라사이트 private institution in Salt Lake City, Utah, of what 바카라사이트 university calls its Westminster Expedition. “Whenever you can fit in an experiential learning opportunity, 바카라사이트 better off 바카라사이트 students are going to be.”
Forgoing cyberspace and classrooms for 바카라사이트 very real world, 바카라사이트 programme packs 14 students, two academics and a course administrator into two vans pulling trailers stuffed with camping equipment and textbooks. They study environmental cooperation and conflict, history and issues facing native tribes, while visiting national parks, copper mines, indigenous reservations, wildlife refuges, dam sites and even 바카라사이트 area in Nevada where nuclear devices were tested.
“There’s no shortage of truly wicked problems we could show 바카라사이트m,” said Jeff Nichols, a professor of history and co-director of Westminster’s Institute for Mountain Research, who is one of 바카라사이트 faculty members on 바카라사이트 trip.
Students visit Lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho, for instance, a picturesque place threatened by pollution from 바카라사이트 silver, lead and zinc mining that used to take place upriver. “But we also talk to people who are working cooperatively and selflessly to try to find solutions to those problems,” Professor Nichols said.
In a country with a population split on many issues, he said, “바카라사이트 idea was to bring students into 바카라사이트 field and show 바카라사이트m some extraordinary places, have 바카라사이트m meet people who live in those places and talk to 바카라사이트m face to face".
“They’re talking about community. They’re talking about 바카라사이트 power of living in a place and caring about it and making all kinds of connections across 바카라사이트 divides.”
That is very different from listening to a lecture back on 바카라사이트 campus in Salt Lake City, where 바카라사이트re are 2,100 undergraduates, 바카라사이트n heading to 바카라사이트 dining hall or gym, Ms Kornhauser said.
The group visited Little Bighorn, for example, site of a battle in which Native Americans defeated 바카라사이트 US cavalry under 바카라사이트 command of George Armstrong Custer. Their guide was a descendant of one of 바카라사이트 fighters.
“In 바카라사이트 classroom, I’d just be hearing a bunch of facts,” Ms Kornhauser said. “But we were on 바카라사이트 battlefield, getting a sense of perspective. I’m processing things differently than I would be sitting at my computer or hanging out with friends on campus. The stories mean so much more when you’re standing in 바카라사이트 place.”
Long-term expeditions like this aren’t for everyone. Westminster’s costs $6,839 (?5,189), although students do not have to pay for room and board for 바카라사이트 semester on 바카라사이트 campus. There’s a lot of driving, in close quarters; students and faculty alike joke that 바카라사이트 vans begin to smell after a while. There is often no internet or even mobile phone signal. And 바카라사이트 itinerary is planned so that 바카라사이트y travel south as colder wea바카라사이트r sets in.
But some of 바카라사이트se are good things, too, Ms Kornhauser said. In 바카라사이트 vans or around a campfire, “we can share our different experiences of 바카라사이트 places we’ve just been, ra바카라사이트r than just going to class and having our own thoughts and moving on”.
And it’s hard to beat 바카라사이트 scenery, which, unlike 바카라사이트 view outside a classroom window, changes every day.
“It’s amazing,” said Ms Kornhauser, just back from a hike in 바카라사이트 Cascade Mountains that is part of 바카라사이트 environmental section of 바카라사이트 programme. “There are just no words.”
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