Wittenberg is excited to offer 16 new opportunities for students to explore, engage, and connect with faculty, staff, and others during the spring semester as part of the鈥疷niversity鈥檚 second annual Focused, Integrated, Reflective Experience or FIRE Week, Feb. 27-March 3, 2023.鈥�
Applications open today, Sept. 19, and feature three deadlines鈥擮ct. 3, Oct. 24, and Nov. 4, 2022鈥攄epending on the experience each student chooses. Most of the experiences require only a $100 refundable deposit that will be returned to students after they complete the experience, while others that involve travel do come with a cost. Wittenberg will work with students to create payment plans so that as many as possible can participate.鈥�
鈥淭he experiences this year are open to鈥痑ll鈥痵tudents, and we have a wonderful assortment of trips and adventures,鈥� said Mike Mattison, associate provost and professor of English. 鈥淭he leaders of these experiences have really taken the time to design the most engaging opportunities, from studying the politics of water in the west or examining the inner workings of a small community like Yellow Springs. FIRE Week experiences give students a chance to engage in-depth with faculty and staff on a wide range of topics, and they are part of President Michael Frandsen鈥檚 vision to have these opportunities open to all of our students. These out-of-classroom experiences can enhance and accentuate what students are learning in the classroom, and they give the students an extra boost to their r茅sum茅.鈥�
Along with the new Connections Curriculum, which debuted last fall, Wittenberg piloted FIRE Week offerings in the spring of 2022. Moving forward, the plan is to have FIRE Week be a regular feature of the Wittenberg academic calendar, taking place鈥痶he week before spring break鈥痚ach year. A FIRE Week experience will fulfill鈥痮ne of the experiential learning requirements in the Connections Curriculum, which, in alignment with the University鈥檚 mission,鈥痗hallenges students to become responsible global citizens, to discover their callings, and to lead personal, professional, and civic lives of creativity, service, compassion, and integrity.
This year, Wittenberg is offering 16 exciting programs鈥痜rom which students can choose:鈥�
- 鈥疉dulting 101
- Building A Home: Habitat For Humanity
- Chamber Music: From Practice to Performance
- Changing the World! Interactive Science Shows for Middle School Students
- Connecting Generations
- Going Local: The Yellow Springs Experience
- Harnessing Old Man River: Nature Meets Culture in Mississippi
- Head to Heart to Action: Designing a Career & Life Action Plan
- Igniting Change in Communities and Ourselves
- Kruger National Park: Conservation and Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Light on the Great Lakes: Shipwrecks, Sand Dunes, and Buried Cities
- Magical Museum Tour
- The Politics of Water in the West
- Service in Sunny Costa Rica
- StartUp in Austin: The Entrepreneurship Experiential Learning Opportunity
- Men鈥檚 Lacrosse Spring Break Trip鈥�
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