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Береа-колледж (Berea College) — гуманитарный колледж в Береа, Кентукки, США. Один из лучших гуманитарных вузов в южной части США. Основанный в 1855 г., колледж был первым на юге США вузом, который ввёл смешанное обучение мужчин и женщин и отменил расовую сегрегацию.[1] Количество студентов составляет около 1500 человек.[2] Обучение в Береа-колледже бесплатное. Каждому поступившему в колледж студенту предоставляется полная стипендия, размер которой по данным на 2011 г. составлял 25 500 долларов США в год.[3]
В Береа-колледже проводится обучение по 28 специальностям.[4] В колледже учатся студенты из более чем 60 стран мира.[5]
Список президентов Береа-колледжа
| Presidents of Berea College | Years as President | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward Henry Fairchild | (1869—89) |
| 2 | William Boyd Stewart | (1890—92) |
| 3 | William Goodell Frost | (1892—1920) |
| 4 | William J. Hutchins | (1920—39) |
| 5 | Francis S. Hutchins | (1939—67) |
| 6 | Willis D. Weatherford | (1967—84) |
| 7 | John B. Stephenson | (1984—94) |
| 8 | Larry Shinn | (1994—2012) |
| 9 | Lyle D. Roelofs | (2012—Future) |
Известные выпускники и преподаватели
- John "Bam" Carney — educator; member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Campbellsville
- William H. Danforth — creator of Purina Dog Chow, author of I Dare you!
- John B. Fenn — winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry[7]
- Rodney Griffin — award-winning songwriter and baritone with Southern gospel group Greater Vision
- Sam Hurst — inventor of the first touch screen.[8]
- Finley Hamilton — United States Representative from Kentucky.
- Julia Britton Hooks — second African-American woman in the United States to graduate from college and paternal grandmother of Benjamin Hooks
- Juanita M. Kreps — U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Jimmy Carter[9]
- Keven McQueen, author of several books chronicling violent crime in pre-20th century Kentucky
- C.E. Morgan — author of «All the Living»[10]
- Harold «Hal» Moses, M.D. — Director Emeritus, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Professor of Cancer Biology
- Tharon Musser — Tony Award-winning lighting designer known especially for her work on A Chorus Line
- Jeffrey Reddick — American screenwriter, best-known for creating the Final Destination series.[11]
- Jack Roush — founder, CEO, and owner of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team
- Helen Maynor Scheirbeck — Assistant Director for Public Programs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian
- Miss B Hollywood — National Pop Rap Recording Artist
- James Thindwa — community activist with Chicago’s «Jobs with Justice»[12]
- Rocky S. Tuan — Director of Center for Cellular and Molecular Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Naomi Tutu (Nontombi Naomi Tutu) — daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu[13] and activist
- Paul S. Peercy — Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
- Djuan Trent — Miss Kentucky 2010
- Muse Watson — American actor
- Billy Edd Wheeler — songwriter, performer and writer
- Carter G. Woodson — African-American historian, author, and journalist. Co-founder of Black History Month
References
- ↑ About Berea, Berea College website
- ↑ Berea College Enrollment: Quick Facts.
- ↑ Berea College website Admissions Page.
- ↑ About Berea College.
- ↑ Berea College website.
- ↑ Ошибка в сносках?: Неверный тег
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- ↑ Sam Hurst- Berea College Physics Alumni
- ↑ The National Book Foundation’s «5 Under 35» Fiction Selections for 2009, National Book Foundation, accessed July 27, 2010
- ↑ Jeffrey Reddick Bio
- ↑ Moyers, Bill (2009-03-27). Bill Moyers Journal: "James Thindwa" (Television Production). New York, NY: Public Broadcasting Service. Дата обращения: 14 июля 2009.
- ↑ Nontombi Naomi Tutu. Kent State University. Дата обращения: 21 июля 2008.
Bibliography
- Peck, Elizabeth. Berea’s First Century, 1855—1955. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.
- Wilson, Shannon H. Berea College: An Illustrated History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. ISBN 9780813123790
External links
Шаблон:Kentucky Higher Education Шаблон:Annapolis Group Шаблон:Work Colleges Consortium
Категории:
- Berea College
- Universities and colleges in Kentucky
- Liberal arts colleges
- Educational institutions established in 1855
- Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- Council of Independent Colleges
- National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities members
- Buildings and structures in Madison County, Kentucky
- Appalachian culture
- Members of the Annapolis Group
- Education in Madison County, Kentucky