From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Apr 8 07:19:19 2005 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 04:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Jobs: Research Fellowship, Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship Message-ID: <20050408111919.52564.qmail@web30514.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > > > KNOWLEDGE BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP > > Appointment of a Research Fellow (post-doctoral) > > (or alternatively, two Research Assistants) > > Post Reference RSS05 > > We are seeking to appoint either one Postdoctoral > Research Fellow or two part-time graduate Research > Assistants to join the project as soon as possible. > The Research Fellow would be appointed for up to 22 > months on a full time basis. The two Research > Assistants would be appointed for up to 25 months on > a half-time basis. 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Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest From krenar at juno.com Sat Apr 16 06:00:14 2005 From: krenar at juno.com (krenar at juno.com) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:00:14 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] College Students Mix Doubt & Belief Message-ID: <20050416.060023.32540.11.krenar@juno.com> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ College Students Mix Doubt and Belief in Their Spiritual and Religious Views, Study Finds By THOMAS BARTLETT Most college freshmen believe in God, but fewer than half follow religious teachings in their daily lives. A majority of first-year students (69 percent) say their beliefs provide guidance, but many (48 percent) describe themselves as "doubting," "seeking," or "conflicted." Those are some of the results of a national study, scheduled for release today, that is believed to be the first broad, in-depth look at the religious and spiritual views of college students. The study, "Spirituality in Higher Education: A National Study of College Students' Search for Meaning and Purpose," was conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. Last fall 112,232 freshmen were asked how often they attended religious services, whether they prayed, and if their religious beliefs affected their actions. Among the findings was a strong correlation between students' religious beliefs and their views on hot-button political issues. For instance, students who considered themselves religious were more likely to oppose same-sex marriage. Religious students were also less likely to believe that abortion should be legal. On other questions, however, there was little difference between religious and nonreligious students. For instance, a majority of both groups believed that the federal government should do more to control the sale of handguns and that colleges should ban racist and sexist speech on their campuses. The survey also found that while first-year students were not always sure what they believed, most of them were interested in grappling with big questions like the meaning of life. What that pattern suggests, according to Alexander W. Astin, director of the UCLA research center, is that colleges should be seeking ways to incorporate spiritual and religious questions into the curriculum -- even if doing so makes some professors uncomfortable. "There's an unwritten assumption that we just don't talk about these issues," said Mr. Astin. "I don't think we're taking advantage of the opportunity to help students explore those questions with each other and in their course work." That is because higher education is "a little more repressed" when the conversation turns to spiritual matters, according to Claire L. Gaudiani, a former president of Connecticut College who helped oversee the study. "For a lot of intellectuals, religion and spirituality are seen as a danger to intellectual inquiry," said Ms. Gaudiani. She argued, however, that dealing with questions about meaning and purpose "doesn't have to mean indoctrination." She compared what she calls "educating the spirit" to teaching good nutrition or physical fitness. "Right now students get the sense that we don't do spirituality," she said. 'Burning Questions' If most professors do not "do spirituality," then Mark Wallace is an exception. The associate professor of religion at Swarthmore College teaches a first-year seminar called "Religion and the Meaning of Life." In an interview, he agreed that many professors are reluctant to engage in what he calls "meaning teaching" -- which is a shame, he said, because meaning is exactly what students are looking for. "They hunger and crave that sort of conversation in a college environment," Mr. Wallace said. He also agreed with Ms. Gaudiani that it is possible to deal with religious questions without promoting a particular ideology. What his students seem to want is an "open, safe place" for the discussion of universal issues where they will not be "censored or yelled at or ignored." As proof, he cited strong interest in his course: He usually has three times as many students trying to sign up for the seminar as he can accept. "They have burning questions about life issues," he said. "And they feel those kinds of issues get ignored in the classroom." Not in David K. Glidden's classroom. The professor of philosophy at the University of California at Riverside teaches "The Care of the Soul," a course that focuses on how to live a purposeful life. While Mr. Glidden is not sure that students will complete his class knowing how to care for their souls, he thinks such courses are a good start and should be a part of a college's curriculum. "My sense is that the students I've taught are a lot like what T.S. Eliot called 'hollow men,'" he said. "They are living in a world, and they don't know what they're here for -- they don't know how to live their lives." And they want to know how to live their lives, said Richard F. Galvin, a professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University. He is part of a team-taught, freshman-level course called "The Meaning of Life." The course has two sections of 50 students, and the seats are always filled. "I can tell by talking to them in office hours, looking at their faces in class, and in reading their work that it affects them," Mr. Galvin said. "They want to talk about these issues. What I like to tell them is that there is plenty of time to be worried about their careers, but this might be the last time they get to talk about big questions." Readings for the course include Plato's dialogues and works by Friedrich Nietzsche and John Stuart Mill. Jeffrey Sebo took Mr. Galvin's course when he was a freshman. Now a senior philosophy major, Mr. Sebo was intrigued by its title and became fascinated by the discussions -- so much so that he has returned to the class twice as a teaching assistant. "It was the big questions that got me hooked," he said. The results of the UCLA study were heartening to Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which has long advocated a more holistic and less career-centered approach to higher education. "Students are more idealistic than we thought," she said. "But what this data shows us is that we have a long way to go. Students have idealism that can be tapped, but we're not doing all we can to help them connect that idealism to important challenges in the world around us." Figuring out how to do that is not simple, but colleges need to start trying, according to Mr. Astin. "If you want to take seriously the claims we make about liberal learning, this is what you have to do," he said. "There are large numbers of students who are involved in spiritual and religious issues and who are trying to figure out what life is all about and what matters to them. We need to be much more creative in finding ways to encourage that exploration." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright ? 2005 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From krenar at juno.com Thu Apr 21 10:14:09 2005 From: krenar at juno.com (krenar at juno.com) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:14:09 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Holding on to all that Humanity can Mean: V.Rev Thomas Hopko Message-ID: <20050421.101414.76324.19.krenar@juno.com> International Herald Tribune: "Holding on to all that Humanity can mean" by Very Rev Thomas Hopko An Orthodox Christian theologian reflects on Pope John Paul II http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/17/news/edhopko.html From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu Apr 28 14:40:16 2005 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] LSE/OSI/FCO Fellowships 05/06 Message-ID: <20050428184016.9509.qmail@web30507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Apr 29 07:15:23 2005 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CfA: Summer School, New trends on the anthropology of Southern Europe, Lecce, 10-21.7.2005 Message-ID: <20050429111523.96619.qmail@web30505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> -- > > Summer School: New trends on the anthropology of > Southern Europe, > Lecce Italy > > The University of Lecce is pleased to announce the > first International > Summer School in anthropology to be held in Apulia > (Puglia), southern Italy -- July 10-21 2005 > > DL: April 15, 2005 > More info: > http://www.medius-terrae.com/summerschool.htm > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Apr 29 14:34:27 2005 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] New Publication: Child Trafficking in South-Eastern Europe: The Development of Good Practices to Protect Albanian Children Message-ID: <20050429183427.30500.qmail@web30505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > > > Child Trafficking in South-Eastern Europe: > "The Development of Good Practices to Protect > Albanian Children" > > Contribution by Terre des hommes Foundation and the > Albanian Foundation Ndihm? P?r F?mij?t > in sharing best practices in the fight against child > trafficking. > > For years, during tourist seasons and religious > holidays, Albanian > children have been taken to Greece to beg and to be > exploited by their > so-called bosses. Today, after four years of common > efforts to counter > this plague, the organizations Terre des hommes and > Ndihm? P?r F?mij?t can affirm: Child trafficking is > not an > inevitability! > > Twenty social workers, teachers and community > animators from both > organizations have shared their experiences to > extract solutions from > their daily practices and from their successful > partnership. This > reflection is today launched as Child Trafficking in > South-Eastern Europe: > "The Development of Good Practices to Protect > Albanian Children" > > If some of the points raised in this document are > specifically related to > the Albanian context, most of the parts of this > model of action are > adaptable to different situations in South-Eastern > Europe. Already, NGO > partners in Greece, Romania and Moldova are using > the model of action > described in the document to implement their > counter-child trafficking > activities on the field. > > This transnational model of action is based on the > principle of "strategic > parallelism" (The project intervention follows and > directly counters the > strategies of traffickers): > > 1. To understand the reason "Why" children are > victims of trafficking, Terre des hommes analyses > the path of former trafficked children according to > the Children > in Street Situation (CSS) systemic approach. This > system allows social and > educational staff to find appropriate solutions on a > case by case basis. > > 2. To know "What" to do to help children facing this > scourge, Terre des hommes, together with its > partners in the field, is at the origin of an > integrated model of intervention, divided in five > main fields: Prevention, > Protection, Assisted Voluntary Return, Reintegration > and Coordination. > Today, this model of action has been integrated into > the Albanian National > Strategy Against Child Trafficking (adopted 11 FEB > 2005) and is adapted to > the Romanian and Moldovan contexts. > > 3. "How" to approach children, be they victims or > at-risk of trafficking, and > their families is one of the main concerns of Terre > des hommes and its partners. Good practices have > been extracted from field > experiences in order to determine the nature and the > evolution of the > trust relationships between project actors with > children and their direct > environment. > > These good practices are published in the framework > of TACT Project: > Transnational Action against Child Trafficking. > Donors include the United > States Agency for International Development (USAID), > the Swedish > International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), > the Oak Foundation, > the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), and the > National Albanian > American Council (NAAC). > > The publication can be downloaded at the following > website: http://www.tdh.ch > French and Albanian versions are available. > Italian, Romanian and Greek > versions are under preparation. > > > The Swiss Foundation Terre des hommes against child > trafficking in Europe: > > Terre des hommes is implementing counter child > trafficking activities since 1999 in > South-Eastern Europe. With the assistance of > specialized resource persons > and its children rights departments at HQ, the Swiss > Foundation and its > partners developed an integrated model of action > against child > trafficking, implemented transnationally, between > countries of origin > (Albania, Kosovo, Romania and Moldova) and countries > of transit and > destination (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, France, and > Russia). > > Today, The Swiss Foundation is facing the risks and > the constant > flexibility of child trafficking trends within the > challenge of EU > enlargement. Terre des hommes continues its > advocacy efforts in the framework of its > International > Campaign against Child Trafficking (ICaCT, begun in > 2001, based on general > public awareness, specific advocacy on legislations > and projects in the > field). Terre des hommes complements the > international campaign with a specific Regional > Child > Protection Project (RCPP, 5-year project) which > target the main fields > related to child trafficking, including juvenile > justice and HIV-AIDS > prevention. > > For more information, go to: www.tdh.ch and to > www.childtrafficking.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com