Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 26, 1990 TAG: 9007260281
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-6 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: RICHLANDS LENGTH: Medium
The grant is one of the larger ones to a single community college in the statewide Funds for Excellence program, and is the fourth straight grant received by Southwest under the program.
It will be used to introduce international concepts across the curriculum, by revising 20 of the college's core courses, providing seminars for faculty and staff in specialized international education subjects, adding library materials, re-evaluating foreign language requirements for associate degree programs, and creating a "sister college" program with foreign institutions.
"Colleges can no longer afford the luxury of isolation," President Charles R. King said. "Interdependent economic markets, America's trade imbalance, the rise of Pacific Rim nations to world power, and the turn of events in Eastern Europe are forcing all community colleges . . . to re-examine their missions."
Quintin Doromal, at Southwest since 1986 with Student Support Services, will be project director.
Diana Hardison, planning and development coordinator and author of the grant proposal, said the college had received earlier grants to promote international understanding.
"Our Business Division has worked cooperatively on a joint export project with Cornwall College in England. We have brought in international experts to speak to faculty and to the community. And now we are embarking on a program, funded by the Agency for International Development, to train community leaders for Guatemala," she said. "We might be a small college in Appalachia, but we are learning to operate on the world stage."
- Southwest bureau
by CNB