1780 – The Official Blog of Transylvania University

1780 | The Official Blog of Transylvania University

Month: May 2019

Anthropology student offers different perspective to business world

Posted on by Robin Hicks

Growing up in Cincinnati, Transylvania University senior Abby Cullen couldn’t quite put her thumb on what she wanted to do with her life. “That unsettled me,” she admits. But she hoped to work for the consumer. “I knew that, as a business person, I wanted to ensure that the customer was being respected and represented, and that their voice was always something in the back of our minds,” she explains. At the same time, she wanted the business to be successful. She just wasn’t sure how to “encapsulate it.” Although anthropology might not be seen as a traditional major for someone interested in business, Cullen says the discipline has helped her develop “very pertinent skillsets that apply to business fields.” She has made connections between the broad, structural theories she’s learned in the classroom and how to think about them in the context of the relationship between business and consumer. “I don’t think I had an a-ha moment as I was signing up for classes,” Cullen says, reflecting on how pursuing her interest in anthropology made her a better business job candidate. “It was more just being in class and seeing how these things actually connect pretty well. Not in the classical sense of being in a business class and talking about HR and diversity, but thinking about a cost analysis and how it is going to affect our consumer long-term, and how is it going to affect our quality.”

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Historic Old Morrison to be featured in Northside Home & Garden Walking Tour

Posted on by John Friedlein

Transylvania University will welcome visitors to its iconic Old Morrison administration building for this year’s Northside Neighborhood Home & Garden Walking Tour on Sunday, May 19. In addition to spotlighting Old Morrison—which is featured on Lexington’s city seal—the self-guided tour will include other nearby properties, including historic homes. Reserve tickets for the event, which is from noon to 5 p.m. Tour participants also can buy tickets at a will-call table in front of Old Morrison. “Northside’s Home & Garden Walking Tour helps to advance our dedication to the preservation of the Northside’s rich cultural heritage and quality of life of its eclectic residents,” according to the association. “The results of decades of efforts has resulted in a 21st century Northside, where 200 years of American history, passionately maintained, is energized by hip urban renewal.” Transylvania both benefits from and adds to the cultural value of its vibrant neighborhood. Built in the 1830s under the direction of statesman Henry Clay, Old Morrison is a registered National Historic Landmark. The building, which was designed by renowned architect Gideon Shryock, served as a Union hospital during the Civil War and houses the tomb of eccentric 19th century professor Constantine Rafinesque. Also, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell referred to Old Morrison Chapel in his sonnet, “The Graduate (Elizabeth)”: “Transylvania’s Greek Revival Chapel is one of the best Greek Revival things in the South.”