Winter 2003 Features

Brown Foundation Awards PMC $3 Million Challenge
The Brown Foundation has awarded a $3 million challenge grant to Pine Manor College, continuing its support of the College’s mission “to prepare women for inclusive leadership and social responsibility in their workplaces, families, and communities.” The challenge for PMC will be to raise matching funds of $1 million each year from 2003 to 2005, for a total of $6 million for the College...

Exploring Democracy in El Salvador
El Salvador’s political system today provides the possibility of all political opinions to be expressed legitimately. The struggle for power between left and right continues, but now in the electoral process at both local and national levels...

Japan in June
At the invitation of Dr. Masahide Shibusawa, president of the Jogakkan Schools for Women (TJK) in Japan, President Gloria Nemerowicz and Executive Assistant to the President Eugene Rosi spent the first week of June in Tokyo, speaking to faculty and staff there and conducting workshops on the principles and theories of an educational system based on inclusive leadership and social responsibility...

What’s a Biology Professor Doing Running a Timber Company?
In 1967, my husband Wil was sent out to Idaho to investigate the source and value of shares of a company represented by his law firm. Coincidentally, this same company was connected to my Boston-based family, so I accompanied him. We found a land where trees grew tall and beautiful, where there was a history that dated back to the Gold Rush days, and, most significant to me, where the land was proximate to one of the ugliest Superfund sites in the United States...