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Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship holds second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Fifty-one college juniors, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, are in Lexington this week to attend the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship’s second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27. The students are recommended by the senior U.S. senator from their state and colleges and universities throughout the country and, while at the Student Congress, are exposed to a curriculum in diplomacy, dialogue, listening skills, negotiation and mediation. The curriculum, designed by Transylvania, the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at UK and Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, focuses not only on theory, but also on the practices of statesmanship, including Henry Clay’s ideals of debate, diplomacy, communication and beneficial compromise. Students will hear from top speakers, including Rusty Barber, U.S. Institute of Peace director of Iraq programs; John Marks, president and founder of Search for Common Ground, an international conflict prevention organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels; Ambassador George Staples; and Steven Hochman, assistant to former President Jimmy Carter and director of research at the Carter Center. Local speakers include U.S. District Judge and Transylvania alumna Karen Caldwell; Transylvania president Charles L. Shearer; Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce director Carey Cavanaugh; Lexington and Washington, D.C., lawyer Kent Masterson Brown; award-winning newspaper editor John S. Carroll; Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett; and Transylvania professors Don Dugi and Scott

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Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship holds second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Fifty-one college juniors, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, are in Lexington this week to attend the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship’s second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27. The students are recommended by the senior U.S. senator from their state and colleges and universities throughout the country and, while at the Student Congress, are exposed to a curriculum in diplomacy, dialogue, listening skills, negotiation and mediation. The curriculum, designed by Transylvania, the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at UK and Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, focuses not only on theory, but also on the practices of statesmanship, including Henry Clay’s ideals of debate, diplomacy, communication and beneficial compromise. Students will hear from top speakers, including Rusty Barber, U.S. Institute of Peace director of Iraq programs; John Marks, president and founder of Search for Common Ground, an international conflict prevention organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels; Ambassador George Staples; and Steven Hochman, assistant to former President Jimmy Carter and director of research at the Carter Center. Local speakers include U.S. District Judge and Transylvania alumna Karen Caldwell; Transylvania president Charles L. Shearer; Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce director Carey Cavanaugh; Lexington and Washington, D.C., lawyer Kent Masterson Brown; award-winning newspaper editor John S. Carroll; Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett; and Transylvania professors Don Dugi and Scott

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2009 Governor’s School for the Arts session opens June 21 at Transylvania

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—A total of 225 of Kentucky’s best young artists from 51 counties will assemble on the Transylvania campus on Sunday, June 21, to begin the three-week 2009 session of the Governor’s School for the Arts. The latest GSA class is comprised of rising juniors and seniors from all corners of the Commonwealth who will receive rigorous training through daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops and field trips to various arts attractions in central Kentucky. The student-artists will receive instruction in a total of nine areas: including New Media, which was added in 2008, those disciplines are Architecture, Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Instrumental Music, Musical Theatre, Visual Arts and Vocal Music. Nearly 4,000 of the state’s most talented high school artists from all 120 counties have attended the 22-year-old GSA summer program following a challenging selection process. Each year since the program’s inception in 1987, over 1,500 students have applied annually for one of the available scholarships, valued at over $3,000. Currently, 20 colleges and universities, including Transylvania, offer scholarships to GSA alumni. The program will culminate on Saturday, July 11, with an all-day festival at Transy that celebrates the achievements of the young artists through performances that are open to family, friends and the public. Transylvania and Lexington have hosted the GSA program annually since 2000 and recently announced an agreement to keep the program on campus through 2011. “The arrival of the Governor’s School for the Arts

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Nationally recognized journalist John S. Carroll to deliver Transylvania University commencement address on Saturday, May 23, at 10 a.m.

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John Carroll LEXINGTON, Ky.—Veteran journalist John S. Carroll will deliver the commencement address at Transylvania University on Saturday, May 23, at 10 a.m. on the steps of historic Old Morrison, where 260 seniors will be awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree. Carroll, a member of the Transylvania Board of Trustees, is a nationally recognized leader in the field of journalism. He is a veteran of more than four decades of editorial and executive experience at five metropolitan daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Lexington Herald-Leader. He directed coverage that won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for the Los Angeles and Lexington papers, as well as the Baltimore Sun and Philadelphia Inquirer. During his tenure in Lexington, he spearheaded an investigative series of reports titled Cheating Our Children. The series exposed flaws in Kentucky’s public education system, which helped led to the passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990. He was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University, a Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Visiting Journalist Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House in Oxford University. Continuing the tradition of a graduating senior speaking at commencement on behalf of the students, Marshall Allen Jolly, an American Studies major and Communications minor from Paris, Ky., has been selected to represent the Class of 2009. Carroll will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

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Transylvania Boys A Cappella to give free concert May 3 at 7:30 p.m.

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transy Boys A Cappella (TBA) will perform Sunday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The performance is free and open to the public. The show will feature a variety of styles from doo wop to pop, barbershop and spirituals. The set list will include “Stand By Me,” “Who Put the Bomp?” the theme song from “Gullah Gullah Island” and many other beloved songs. Transy Boys A Cappella, in its third year of existence, is entirely student directed and organized. The concert preludes the group’s trip with the Transylvania Choir on its European tour for May term the following week. The show will help cap an ambitious year for TBA.  This year has seen the group sing at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Lexington and the Woodsongs preshow at the Kentucky Theatre and participate in a master class with the Grammy Award-winning a cappella group Chanticleer last November. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or visit www.transy.edu/music/tba.htm.