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WHY RESEARCH?
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| Ongoing studies show that benefits to students from a collaborative research experience include a better understanding of appropriate methodology, intensive exposure to a research problem, ability to analyze data and communicate results and a clarification of career plans. Through the work, students can experience firsthand the processes of scholarly inquiry and an intellectual life, the good and the bad, the wonder as well as the drudgery. |
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www.randolphcollege.edu
Lynchburg, VA
May 13, 2007 |
Arlene Joy Gibson, former Head of School of The Spence School and Founding President of the National Coalition of Girls Schools: |
"Randolph-Macon made dramatic and difficult choices this year. While it committed itself to maintaining the institution’s core values, it also chose to change the face, and in some ways the very nature of the college. I would suggest that’s not a bad template for all of you. Commit yourself to your core values and make those the foundation for your future. But so too must you have the courage to make the difficult and dramatic choices that may well change the course of your life, the lives of those around you and even, perhaps, the world."
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www.rosemont.edu
Rosemont, PA
May 19, 2007 |
Pat Ciarrocchi ’74, Journalist, CBS3/WKY-TV: |
"You don’t have to climb the mountain of success all in one leap. You can take it step by step."
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www.sage.edu
Troy, NY
May 12, 2007 |
David Warren, president, National Association of Colleges and Universities: |
"I hope you will do something in the service of the country. Volunteer to help at least one single person and be prepared to have your life altered as a consequence. Seize the day."
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www.sjc.edu
West Hartford, CT
May 20, 2007 |
Carol R. Taylor, Director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University: |
"As your graduation activities wind down, I urge to reflect on the core values and attitudes you bring to life. Hopefully among them will be: a lively gratitude that culminates in human excellence and service; a carefully cultivated hope for a better future; and lastly, a commitment to nurture relationships and human flourishing, a commitment to make people, ALL people, matter." |
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www.stmarys.edu
Notre Dame, IN
May 19, 2007 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito: |
"We should also take care to preserve our connections to our own past…Decades from now, you may be different than you are today in a lot of significant ways. You may have a lot more than you have today. You may have more money and more status and more power and more accomplishments. You may also have more responsibilities, more worries, more regrets and more bruises. |
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But underneath all of that, you will still be the same person who is here today graduating from college and it will be good for you to stay connected with the people who know the real you." |
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www.smwc.edu
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN
May 5, 2007 |
Sr. Patricia A. Cruise, SC, MTS, President and CEO of Covenant House: |
"I urge you now to do your best to use these years to solve some of the world’s problems and make a difference. Because one person can make a difference.
On this very special day of celebration, I challenge the Class of 2007 to dream of new possibilities, new ways to make the world a better place; to be bold and spread the values you’ve learned here outside the gates of The Woods and into the world."
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www.scrippscollege.edu
Claremont, CA
May 13, 2007 |
Karen Tse '86, Founder and CEO, International Bridges to Justice: |
"In this day and age, I firmly believe that we are on the edge of a human rights revolution - that there's never been before a time in history that we could do what we can do now for human rights.
With great power comes great responsibility, and you will bring your knowledge forward, and you must also bring your love forward. You must bring your whole heart forward. You must bring the pieces of who you are, even when it's difficult.
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As you go forward in your daily lives, be alive to the mystery and adventure of life, know that you yourself have the opportunity for rebirth and birth everyday, and that in the process of giving to the greater world, you yourself will be transformed." |
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www.simmons.edu
Boston, MA
May 19, 2007 |
John Prendergast, an international leader in bringing attention to genocide in Darfur and other warn-torn nations in Africa, senior adviser of the International Crisis Group and founder of the ENOUGH Stop-Genocide Project: |
"Don’t sleep through this momentous defining period in our history…Dream big, and believe in yourself for your dreams to come true. Not every time I’ve taken a chance has it paid off. In fact, if you look in the dictionary under ‘outrageous’, you can see my mug shot.
But every time that I have taken a chance, ventured a risk, or chased a dream, I’ve gotten wiser, I’ve gotten stronger, I’ve gotten richer in spirit."
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www.smith.edu
Northhampton, MA
May 20, 2007 |
Gloria Steinem '56, editor, journalist, political activist, and tireless promoter of equality for women around the world:
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"Your generation has made giant strides into public life, but often still says: How can I combine career and family?
I say to you from the bottom of my heart that when you ask that question you are setting your sights way too low. First of all, there can be no answer until men are asking the same question. |
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Second, every other modern democracy in the world is way, way ahead of this country in providing a national system of childcare, and job patterns adapted to the needs of parents, both men and women. So don’t get guilty. Get mad. Get active. If this is a problem that affects millions of unique women, then the only answer is to organize." |
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