Jerry Herbert, American Studies Program, Washington, D.C.
Jerry Herbert is on the board and affiliated with the Center for Public Justice and usually teaches a seminar with them during their summer Civitas Leadership Program. He’s also linked with the Mustard Seed Foundation and teaches a one week seminar called the Harvey Fellows Program (www.msfdn.org). Also as a longtime member and elder at the Washington Community Fellowship church, he helped launch The Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center, just a few blocks away from the ASP campus. These are just a few examples of how Herbert puts his faith into action in his community, which is also the goal for students of the American Studies Program.
Kimberly Spragg, Australia Studies Centre at Wesley Institute, Drummoyne, Australia
Having grown up in Ecuador as an MK, and having studied abroad in college, Kimberly Spragg developed a passion to see God work among students. After a stint working at Harvard University, she served as the off-campus study coordinator at Taylor University in Upland, Ind. She moved to the CCCU, working her way up to Student Programs Director. In 2005, she took over the ASC program, and has since been pushing students to process their world, their art form and their individual roles as global citizens in the light of their Christianity.
Jay Lundelius, China Studies Program, Xiamen, China
Dr. Jay Lundelius brought eleven years of experience living, working and studying in different parts of Asia when he took over as Director of the China Studies Program in fall 1999. His avid interest in China was shaped through teaching in Canton from 1984-86, as well as his marriage to a citizen of mainland China. Dr. Lundelius has an M.A. in ESL and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition. His experience in linguistics and cross-cultural communication continued during his years as a professor for three years in Japan, and then for five years in Hong Kong. He applies his knowledge by teaching students in the China Studies Program about the parallels in learning a language and learning a culture. Since Dr. Lundelius and his family have lived in three distinctly different Asian cultures, he is able to highlight similarities and differences among Asian cultures with his students at CSP. He has been published in the Yale Asia-Pacific Review, The Business Communication Quarterly, and The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.
Warren Pettit and Tom Willet, Contemporary Music Center, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Pettit created a music industry program that fostered the development of the band Jars of Clay. Scratch Track is another nationally recognized touring band that calls the Contemporary Music Center home. Willett brings a wealth of music industry experience to the program, having served as musician, agent, manager, executive producer, marketing executive and label head for more than 20 years.
Anthony Chamberlain, Latin American Studies Program, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Chamberlain and Ken Bussema, CCCU vice president for students programs, attended the IAPCHE International Conference in Granada, Nicaragua, Nov. 14-19, 2006, and together presented a poster presentation focused on ways to facilitate cross-cultural learning. IAPCHE is the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education.
Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran, Los Angeles Film Studies Center, L.A., Calif.
Ver Straten-McSparran recently contributed a chapter to a book about film and theology being published by Baker Books. She has become a major sponsor and leader for the City of Angels Film Festival, a retrospective film festival which takes place each year at the Director’s Guild of America. Ver Straten-McSparran is now the director of the festival after six years of serving on its executive committee. She is on the board of Reel Spirituality and was recently on the revision team for the second edition of the book of the same name. Ver Straten-McSparran was elected to and is co-chair of the Arts and Recreation Committee of the Mid City WEST Council.
David Holt, Middle East Studies Program, Cairo Egypt.
Holt endeavors to build relationships between MESP Students and young people throughout the Middle East—Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. Meetings with local experts, political and religious leaders, diplomats, and plain folks on the street all contribute to an engaging atmosphere of public diplomacy at a more personal level. In the midst of a region in crisis, the MESP program seeks to foster mutual understanding and respect by being a listening presence among the program’s mainly Muslim neighbors and friends.
Stan Rosenberg, Programmes in Oxford, England.
Rosenberg has been made a faculty member of Wycliffe Hall and Oxford University’s Theology Faculty. (Wycliffe Hall is one of the 46 colleges and halls of Oxford University.) This status also makes him a member of Congregation, Oxford University’s highest decision-making body which consists of about 3,500 of the most senior academic, museum, library and administrative members of the university. Congregation approves all major policies related to the university. During Rosenberg’s sabbatical last spring, he researched and wrote and should soon be published in a few scholarly journals. His area of interest is St. Augustine.
Harley Wagler, Russian Studies Program, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.
Wagler has given advice to different political leaders throughout Russia and other former-Soviet countries. He regularly presents papers at the International Pushkin festival and he’s considered an expert on Pushkin by Russians and others. “Harley’s so culturally adept, even Russians sometimes forget he’s not a Russian,” says Amber Palmer, assistant director of student programs.
Mark Bartels, Uganda Studies Program, Mukono, Uganda
Bartels completed his bachelors and masters degrees at Wheaton College (IL) in five years. Prior to becoming director of the Uganda Studies Program, he was a high school teacher in Sylmar, Calif., and worked at Honey Rock Camp in Three Lakes, Wis. During his time at Honey Rock, he: developed and implemented curriculum for extended wilderness trips for high school, college and graduate students; designed and coordinated group retreats; and studied and researched camp management and administration. At USP, he developed and taught the seminar course, ‘Faith & Action in the Ugandan Context’; coordinated core and elective courses; and facilitates educational travel and other experiential education.
Terry Mattingly, Washington Journalism Center, Washington, D.C.
Mattingly’s weekly column for the Scripps Howard News Service, “On Religion” has just been expanded to reach approximately 900 daily newspapers across the U.S. Other duties of this program director and working journalist include directing the GetReligion.org project on religion and the news as well as writing occasional columns for the ethics and diversity program at the Poynter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the book Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture.
The 12 semester- or summer-long student programs offered by the CCCU are categorized as either culture-shaping programs or culture-crossing programs. Culture-shaping programs are: American Studies Program (Washington, D.C.); Contemporary Music Center (Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.); Los Angeles Film Studies Center (L.A., Calif.); and Washington Journalism Center (Washington, D.C.). Included in the culture-crossing programs are: Australia Studies Centre; China Studies Program; Latin American Studies Program; Middle East Studies Program; Programmes in Oxford; Russian Studies Program; and Uganda Studies Program. All programs undergo regular site visit evaluations by the Student Academic Programs Commission (SAPC).
The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities is a higher education association of 180 intentionally Christ-centered institutions around the world. There are now 105 member campuses in North America and all are fully-accredited, comprehensive colleges and universities with curricula rooted in the arts and sciences. In addition, 75 affiliate campuses from 24 countries are part of the CCCU. The Council’s mission is to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help its institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.
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