Oberlin Shansi invites applications for the position of Campus Coordinator. This is a full-time 12-month Administrative and Professional Staff entry-level position reporting to the Associate Director of Oberlin Shansi. The appointment is for two years beginning on August 1, 2012.
Carl and Deb wearing smiles in Taigu, Fall 2010.
Doubtless we all have special memories of Carl and Deb. To celebrate all they have meant to Shansi, please send these memories in as anecdotes, photos, limericks etc to mguo@oberlin.edu to post on the blog devoted to toasting their tenures at Shansi http://toastingcarlndeb.tumblr.com/
In honor of Carl and Deb's long and able service to and leadership of Shansi, the Board of Trustees has established the Carl Jacobson and Deborah Cocco Fund to support the many Shansi programs that promote mutual respect and understanding between Oberlin and Asia. You may contribute to the fund by sending a check to Shansi with a memo note "for the Carl Jacobson and Deborah Cocco Fund" or by making an online contribution and sending a note of your designation to ewilkins@oberlin.edu.
Two special members of the Shansi family have passed away. Arthur Harris, first Shansi Visiting Scholar from American College, and Harold Howes, Shansi Rep to Chengdu, China, will be fondly remembered.
Recently, there have been reports of radiation detected in Japanese baby formula, another sign that the effects of the March 11 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster are far from over. Arisa Williams (OC '06) has started collecting donations to help Japanese parents feed their children with safe foods. Her project is called "Safe Food to Japan."
To donate and learn more about this project, visit Arisa's website: http://sfjapan.wordpress.com/
As Winter Term rolls around, another group of Oberlin College students gears up to jet set off to Asia.. to study the intersections of health and gender in Bangladesh.. or to research rock climbing as a sustainable development initiative in China.. or to study Indian street theater as a means of enacting social change... just the usual way to spend an academic break.
As it has done for more than 100 years, Oberlin Shansi recently appointed 8 to its core program that sends Oberlin graduates to partner institutions in Asia on two-year fellowships. Selected for China were Ricardo Barrios, Veronica Colegrave and Amelea Kim. Naila Paul and Christina James will be heading to India. Cory Rogers and Santino Merino will spend two years in Indonesia while Lissette Lorenz will be in Japan.
The two-year fellowship program, open only to Oberlin graduates, is just one of the programs that Shansi sponsors. Oberlin Shansi also provides for five in-Asia Oberlin undergraduate grants a year, funding for Oberlin campus programs, as well as, a faculty exchange program that sends OC faculty to Asia and brings Asian scholars to Oberlin.
Joseph spent this past summer in Japan studying traditional Japanese shamisen and shinobue. While immersing himself in music, his experience couldn't help but also be affected by the recent events of 3/11.
This talk is sponsored by the Politics Department, Third World Studies, and Oberlin Shansi.
