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| In Appalachia, a Road Trip for Faculty Makes a Difference For over 50 years, Berea College has put its employees on a bus tour that will teach them about the communities they serve, and challenge stereotypes about Appalachian life. Peter Slavin May 21 2013, 2:01 PM ET Tweet More Email Print Images of Appalachia,jimmy choo sale, from coal mines to the Highlander Center (AP) There may be nothing like it anywhere else in higher education--but given the results, perhaps there should be. For over 50 summers, while other colleges have focused on getting students oriented to campus, Berea College in Kentucky has taken faculty and staff on an extended bus tour to get them oriented to their students and region. The tour, which originally just ran through the eastern part of the state, now spends five days in a swathe of Appalachia, the area from which most Berea students come and which Americans tend to see in terms of poverty, a homogeneous white population, backward ways, old-time music, and other entrenched stereotypes. Faculty and |
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