Messsge from the Chsir snd President All educotors look to the future: nurturing young minds, after oll, is cn investment in the professionols of tomorrow But university leoders olso poy close ottention to institutionol needs - both short- ond long-ternr cnd consider ways to identify, trcin, ond empower the individuols who con successfully oddress them. lt tckes commitment to invest time ond humon resources in meeting tomorrow's chcllenges, but effective lecdership development begins eorly cnd continues over the course of csreers. Leodership developmrnt is on especiolly rewording port of our work because it engcges us in issues of centrol Noncy E. Chopmon MichoelGilligon importonce to Asia's higher educotion institutions. For President Boord of Directors Choir, example, eoriier this yeor, our Asian University Leoders Progrom immersed 50 university odministrotors in o three-doy strotegic plcnning ond resource development exercise. As esch porticipcnt described his or her university ond its gools for the future, we goined o rnore nuonced understonding of the competitive environrnent in which they operote ond the strengths they want to build upon. Lecdership development olso connects us to the mony creotive cnd ombitious individuols in our network. Their spirit and dedicction tronslote the gools of student-centered lecrninE ond votues-bosed education into concrete oction. To spend o week with aur2O12-2O14 sndZAru-2O16 clcsses of United Boord Fellows - crs our program stoff did in August * is to goin new oppreciation for the deep pool of tclent ond interest in Asian universities. Our chollenge is to secure the resources thot will enoble even more emerging leaders to similcrly benefit from o cross-border ond cross-disciplinory exchonge of ideos ond best prcctices. We sre pleosed to introduce o new laakfor Horizons. Our gool in redesigning the newsletter is twofold: increosing the number of stories we shore obout the educstors in our network and providing o more ottrsctive showcsse for their innovotive work. This issue clso includes our 2A14 Annual Report, which gives us fln opportunity to recognize, with deep grotitude, the contributions of our donors. Their generosity hos mode it possible to enrich the lives cnd coreers of the people described in these poges ond so mony others throughout Asio.
Sillimon University Honds-on Lecrning ot College of Nursing
5ilIimon University incuguroted its new Simulction Loborotory and Resource Center on Septernber 25, opening o new chcpter in educcting students from its own College of [!ursing os well os from other universities, cllied heolth prog ro ms, and hea lthc cre arganizations ir-: Viscyos
and Mindonco provinces" Sillim*n received support for this major project from the U.S. Agency for lnternotionol Development's Americcn Schools cnd Hospitcls Abroad Progrcrn (ASHA), through o grant to the United Boord. Sillimon students begin troining in new lcb.
Since 1976, the United Baord has administered necrly 515 million in ASHA gronts on beholf of universities in its network.
,-
- \-r ELILM
Jemo
l-ELIt r llt Iyv EI IVII Lrr rI r rEl lL
Pmmintuon
#6
T* I b/
q*e*{.{.f LELE*dX r s:erar E:*8re LH *srffihLis$: FE -! "g E E%,
'f'Br.:
ryJP& ffi I ffi fi flt"* [ E]ffitWffi ;Fâ‚ŹuM--io*4UJ
t
iln*r*.ss
The lste Elissbeth Luce Moore wqs o long-serving
United Boqrd Trustee ond chompion of developing leodership in women. We qre pleosed to recognize Dr. Jemo Pomintuon, ossistont professor in the Filipino Deportment ot Ateneo de Monils University, os the 2012-2014 Elisqheth Luce Moore United Board Fellow. This owsrd is bosed on her commitmentto Ieorning new spproqches to leodership ond teoching, her willingness to mqke constructive chonges ot her institution, ond her potentiolfor ocodemic leodership. Jema Pomintuon returned to Ateneo de Monilo University in June 2014,full of fresh energy ond ideos from her
Jemo Pomintuon receives congrotulotions from United Boord Vice President Glenn Shive.
Dr. Psrnintuon feels she is still a leoder-in-trcining, so she relies on questions to guide her vision for the librory. "Whot ore the mcteriols thst Al-iWW provides?" she osks" "How ccn we come up with projects thot will make
experiences os a2012-2014 United Boord Fellow After her plocement ot Ceorgetown University, she wrote thst she wos eoger "to further push myself in helping our deportment design new courses ond tecching tools, ond foster a crective cnd criticolly engcging leorning environment within ond outside the clossroom." Now
these moteriols occessible, useful, ond meoningful to the acodemic community, os well cs the outside commun!ty?
Ateneo de fu4cnils hos offered her on opportunity to put those gools into practice: it nomed her executive director of the Ateneo Librory of Women's Writings (ALiWW), cn orchivol fccility thot promotes writing by ond obout Filipino women omong contemporory reoders.
Her experience os o United Boord Fellow provides some onswers. Dr. Pcmintuon enjoyed ottending the Ceorgetown Fridoy I\4usic Concert Series, ond she leorned from its director how the concert music wos integroted into students'clssses ond resecrch. So she reoched out in similor fashion to Ateneo deportments to publicize an ALiWW exhibit honoring former Filipino comfort women, which featured the diories, sketches, cnd ortwork cf these wcmen. Students from the English, Filipino, history
Who ore the morginciized women's voices thot our librory might need to attend to, ond how con we omplify those voices?"
politicci science crnd other deportments visited the exhibit and took the informotion they gleoned bock to their ciossroorns. On other occosions, a nrini-exhibit obout the mortiol law period in ihe Philippines and o Visoyon culturcl
performcnce created pothwcys from ALiWW to the
Jemo Pomintuon, for left, welcomes former Filipino comfort women to cn ALiWW exhibit.
clsssroom cnd community. These types of events, Iike those Dr. Pomintuan observed during fellowship plocements ot Ceorgetown University ond Tunghci Unlverslty, open windows to understand o country or culture ond to "help establish new, meoningful networks that will prove helpful in one's own work ond resecrch."
-
The Ch inEie University of Hong Kong
sd
ffivryryffirc* $m LmcaL smci*Ey is a
Chinn is now part of cr: internnticnsl ririve to safeguard intcngible culturol heritcge - the weclth of cuiturcl
kn*wledge *nd skills trsnsrnitted from cn* Eeneratian lc the noxt - and thir opens exciting ne'w possibilities for educotors *nd rEs*crchers in ethnogr*phy" history, religi*us ;tudies, and other fields. "This has cornpletely chcnged the environi'nent for fieldrvarl<," cloims jchn l-cge rwey, c professor of fhinese studies st The Chinese University of l-iong Kong" 5o, with c lJnited Board gront to {UHK, Dr. Lcgerwey and his colleague Tam Wai Lun, c prnfesscr in the Department of Cultr"rrerl cncl Reiigicus Studies, designed s progrflm to introduce Chinese gradu*te students to the rigor cnd rewcrds of fieldwork. Dur!ng prepcrctcry iectures, the tight-knit teom cf professors fronr CUHK, Fujion Fiormcl University, cnd :eversl other Chinese universiLies reminded the i7
t*xchcr"r* rcducte students thct, for the field resecrchel, "everyone in iocc I society is a tecchei-." 5o, over the course ofthree cnd s holf dcrys, three tccms of professors ond students Documents help unlock locol listened to people from culture for student reseqrchers. communities in Fujion province's Therong, Fu'c n, cnd Xicpu counties *s they shored their lcccl r"eiigious g
prociices
o
nd trcditions.
"Your first job is to describe whot you observe." Thot's the chcrge Dr. Logerwey gave the students in his grol;p" During observations ond interviews in 'tr3 sites in Zherong county, they heord residents describe how the troditionci goddess fu4axion is ccrried from one villoge to onother; how, in times of drought, people proy to her for rcin; and how villcge cllicnces have grown up oround shored worship of lccol gods. The professors who led the student tesms hope the fieldwork experience will cctolyze idecs for thesis and dissertation topics among the pcrticiponts" They olso hcpe the experience iEnites o new opprooch to iearning. "People who engoge in fieldwork hove a possion," Dr" Lcgerurey scys, o deslre "to see how people reclly live and to understcnd the woys in which they tcke chorge of their own saciety, culture, ond destiny." lt's o humcnistic opprooci'i to lecrning, quite different fronr whot students mcy hcve experienced in their universities, but one thot ccn open new doors of respect and oppreciction for Chino's cultural ond religious heritr:ge"
John Logerwey (bcck row, second from right), with his resesrch teom in Zherong county.
--ffi