> CIEL Voices & Visions 2008 - Editor's Introduction - Art - Fiction - Creative Nonfiction - Student Scholarship - Poetry - Songs
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CIEL Voices & Visions: A Student Journal Editor's Introduction 2008 Center: "A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction." Margin: "A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake." "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. " Kurt Vonnegut This on-line journal brings together the words, songs and images of students from six different colleges ( Berea College, Daemen College, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, New College, Pitzer College, and Prescott College) members of the Consortium of Innovative Environments for Learning (CIEL). The pieces reflect how the students in these colleges are thinking about the problems and issues of today's world and provide a small window into ways these innovating colleges work with students. Most of these pieces were created in response to a question or an assignment in a writing or printmaking class, a prompt for an external learning journal, or a project in a class addressing a theme or issue. Some were created outside of any class or formal projects as expressions of their thinking and emotions. Editing this on-line journal, as in other years, has been both a challenge and a joy. The submissions trickled in slowly, but finally e-mail boxes filled up with remarkable work. I want to thank the CIEL campus coordinators from the participating colleges for responding to e-mails hounding them about deadlines and for gathering the pieces from their campuses. I also extend a special thanks to Danielle Woodman at Daemen College for being our webmaster. CIEL's thanks also go to the Fund for the Improvement for Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for the grant that supported the collaboration that has developed among and between our campuses. Finally, we want to express our gratitude to our students for sharing their own work from the center and the margins. The Editor Marie Eaton, Campus Coordinator
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