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INTRODUCING PRESCOTT COLLEGE
Preparing to Serve The theme of service and activism is a prevalent and powerful mission of the College, permeating its whole history from the 1960s to today. The desire to be active and involved in the greater community is an ongoing concern among students, faculty, and staff. Individual students have incorporated volunteerism into their project ideas and personal ambitions for many years. This kind of constructive activism grows out of the College’s embrace of experiential learning and out of the character of the people that this philosophy attracts.
“Prescott College provides students the opportunity to do something about environmental policy and practice, about social injustice, about teaching children and youth, and about spreading healthy values. This approach – to save the world one person, one canyon, one Ponderosa Pine at a time – is central to the Prescott College Mission.” – Dan Garvey, Prescott College Former President
“In a recent survey of alumni, eighty-nine percent said that their education at Prescott College helped prepare them to contribute to positive change, and seventy-two percent said they chose their current line of employment because it enables them to contribute to positive social change. “ -- Jack Herring, Prescott College Dean
in the World
Senior Project Solo Por Ser Mujer – Only for Being a Woman Jessica Lichtig ’06 spent two months in Mexico studying a decade-long outbreak of violent assaults on women. In Ciudad Juarez, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, “400 women have been found dead in the desert and over 600 have disappeared,” she said, “and the violence is spreading into the capital of Chihuahua.” Human rights activists are calling the acts of violence in Ciudad Juarez a female genocide, or femicide. While in Mexico, Lichtig worked with several prevention centers and conducted interviews with mothers of the disappeared and dead women. “I wanted to know…what was causing the violence,” she said. The answer she found in Ciudad Juarez was “an accumulation of many factors, ranging from economic disparity and drug trafficking to government corruption and lack of proper investigations, and the infamous maquiladoras.” These factories clustered on the border, many of them US owned, are renowned for their poor treatment of women. Jessica urges us to think about where we shop and not to support products that are made in the maquiladoras, and to raise awareness in our country about the femicide in Ciudad Juarez. “When our personal resources and countries aren’t doing enough,” Lichtig says, “we need to band together and help out.”
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