News Briefs
Volunteers Needed to Help Complete Habitat Home
Meredith College’s first Habitat home is nearing completion. Volunteers are needed to help meet the goal of finishing the home before Easter.
Faculty, staff, students, alumnae and other interested volunteers are welcome. Visit www.meredith.edu/habitat/volunteer-opportunities.htm to sign up for a work day.
Meredith College students, faculty and staff have volunteered with Habitat for Humanity for more than 20 years. The Habitat for Humanity student organization is leading the effort to build the first Habitat home fully funded by Meredith.
Visit www.meredith.edu/habitat for more information.
Admissions Hosts Successful Events
Meredith’s Office of Admissions hosted two events, Junior Visitation Day and Scholarship Weekend, during the weekend of February 14-15.
For Junior Visitation Day, Meredith welcomed 48 high school juniors and their families. Scholarship Weekend was attended by 94 students, who interviewed for the Honors Program, talent scholarships, Meredith’s Presidential Scholars Program and the Alumnae Legacy Scholarship.
On Sunday, Feb. 22, the Office of Admissions hosted the President's Reception for admitted students from the local area. The event was held at the Massey House, and was attended by 100 students.
This semester, Admissions staff members are also reaching out to Meredith’s out-of-state population in Florida, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia by hosting intimate receptions for students and asking a local alumna to attend. Upcoming on-campus events include another Junior Visitation Day on March 21, and Experience Meredith! for accepted and deposited students, on April 4.
Panel Discussion on “Religion and the Environment”
Meredith’s Center for Women in Ethics and Public Life is hosting a panel discussion on “Religion and the Environment” on Tuesday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.
The purpose of the panel is to inform the Meredith community about how different faith traditions approach/teach environmental issues and what work is being done in response to global climate change. This panel is part of the annual “Religion and Social Issues” series.
Speakers will include the Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, who is a priest in the Diocese of California, co-chair of the Episcopal Diocesan Commission for the Environment and has been active in the environmental community for 25 years, Jonathan Merritt, a faith and culture writer whose work appears regularly in publications such as “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution” and On Faith in “Newsweek”, and Fred Hain, of NC State’s Department of Entomology.
