11/20/2017
1-year Fellow Positions for Upcoming and Recent College Grads, at Farm School in Greece - Hampshire connections!
The American Farm School (K-12) & Perrotis College are hiring 5 Fellows to work in the 2018-2019 academic year. Hampshire Assistant Dean and Director of Multicultural and International Student Serices, Dre Domingue, visited this very cool school in Greece last summer. Hampshire is now one of the few schools where they post their Fellowship positions for upcoming or recent graduates!
Their Director of Student Life, Leighanne Penna, who hires the Fellows, is hosting a skype meeting with interested Hampshire students. With the 7-hour time difference, it is at:
Thursday, Nov. 30th, noon, at Knowledge commons Classroom, 1st floor library
With food - please RSVP so we can have the right amount of food available!
If you are interested in applying, attend this meeting!
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The 1-Year Fellowship Opportunities include: (for full info, see the attached info):
• Student Life & Arcadia Fellow - work with residential life, student activities; co-supervise a Leaders & Mentors program, and co-facilitate seminars in time management, CV writing, and more.
• Student Life & College Counseling Fellow - assist students applying to US colleges/universities, and other academic programs in the US, support High School Student Life Dept, which includes res life and student activities.
• Elementary English Language Fellow (2 positions) - support Elementary School teachers during English language lessons and subjects taught in English; develop lesson plans, prepare interactive learning experiences; help students with homework during study hour, staff reading club, etc.
• Gregory Maguire Writing Fellow - support high school and college students at the Library Writing Center; design and facilitate small group academic and creative writing workshops to inspire and instill a culture of writing; schedule one-on-one appts to provide writing support and feedback.
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Informal notes, info, and impressions of the school, programs, and surrounding area: (to help you get a bit more of the flavor of this school and Greece, we’re including informal notes from Dre after her visit there, added to with info from a recent conversation between Carin at CORC and Leighanne, their Director of Student Life):
The college (small bachelor’s level with two new master’s programs):
http://www.perrotiscollege.edu.gr/
Shared space with the American Farm School (pre-school – high school) in Thessaloniki, Greece
- The farm is enormous and includes grapes for wine, pomegranates, a small sail farm, chickens and eggs, cows (a lot of cows), a production facility for milk and cheese, and a lot more...
- We had a legit seminar on olive oil which included an olive oil tasting
- An international (European, really) conference on herbicide use was occurring at the same time as our visit:
http://www.ewrs.org/optimizing_herbicide_use.asp
- We visited the food science lab and saw intriguing and impressive original research (I don't want to spoil it for any of you who might actually visit!)
- We hiked in Mount Olympus (THE Mount Olympus)
- We visited Meteora https://www.visitmeteora.travel/en/what-to-see/the-meteora-monasteries
- We had an incredibly informative tour of Gerovassilliou Winery which has an enormous wine museum that is truly educational and includes some incredible historical artifacts
https://www.gerovassiliou.gr/en/node
-While there we connected with Texas A&M where a faculty in leadership studies was leading a study abroad trip and AFS was the host that coordinated on the group logistics
- They do advise high school students at the American Farm School about admission to US universities. I met a rising senior interested in Hampshire. Other Farm School grads are going to Rhodes, St. Lawrence, Union, WPI and other solid institutions this fall. Banners hanging in the college advising room: Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke, Michigan, Princeton, University of Richmond.
While we were there, a colleague from UMass presented a seminar on racism and implicit bias to the student life staff. I facilitated a workshop/seminar on LGBT and ally support and Byron facilitated a session on engaging millennials and was impressed with the examples staff provided about students' autonomy and independent projects (and not just student life staff, but from the library and the Farm School). There are also several fellowship opportunities for recent graduating undergrads to do work at the School.