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ABOVE ALL ELSE
OBJECTIVE
Attracting & Retaining the Very Best Faculty ▶▶ The Brunswick Faculty Institute, a
key initiative
Headmaster Philip added, “The Faculty Institute
of the Campaign, was created thanks to a generous
is truly unique to Brunswick. We’re so proud of our
senior gift from the Class of 2013 and a $500,000
faculty. We need to make sure we build into their
gift from an anonymous donor. Under the leadership
cycle of experience opportunities for updating and
of co-directors Brendan Gilsenan and Sue Das, the
renewing enthusiasm for their craft.”
Institute convenes each spring, just after school ends, for three days of renewal and enrichment.
▶▶ The Class of 2015 Senior Fund — Distinguished
Faculty participate in the Institute on a four-year
Visiting Lecturers, a unique and vanguard program
rotating schedule — with an initial pilot program
that strengthens the Brunswick faculty’s power and
and three subsequent rotations having already been
expertise by bringing the leading experts in the world
completed.
of teaching to our school — has served to enhance
The objective? To give teachers the exceedingly
the Institute. Senior Fund Committee Co-chairs
rare opportunity: Time to reflect on their craft.
Stephen and Gina Pate Pierce (P ’15, ’19) and Gregory
Faculty also have time to connect with colleagues
and Dana Rogers (P ’15, ’18) led the fundraising charge
from across Brunswick, carve out time to hear what’s
for the initiative.
happening in classrooms at every level, and enjoy time to digest information. “We all know how hard Brunswick faculty work,” said
The Institute welcomed its first speaker, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, in November 2015. Dr. Kaufman, scientific director of the Imagination Institute in the
Nancy Better (P ’11, ’13), who co-chaired the 2013 Senior
Positive Psychology Center at UPenn, delivered a
Class Gift with Philip F. Pierce (P ’10, ’13, ’18). “They
lecture with Q&A on topics such as neuroscience,
teach, they coach, they advise. There isn’t a lot of time
creativity and the brain, and stimulating students’
in the academic calendar to pursue their enrichment.”
imaginations inside the classroom.
ABOVE ALL ELSE: COURAGE, HONOR, TRUTH 7