A new full-length CD by Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, offers a cross-section of two decades of her chamber music. “Songs of the Cotton Grass,” from the British label Deux-Elles, features six chamber and solo works performed by violinist and violist Matthew Jones with soprano Elizabeth Donovan and other artists. Most of the compositions are homages to nature. A recent review in MusicWeb International calls the work “beautifully melodic and warmly lyrical.”
Sarayfah Bolling ’11 has been accepted into the NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program (NUFP) for students seeking to better understand the field of student affairs and/or higher education. Students and mentors apply as a pair; Bolling is working with Karen Ferrer-Muñiz, director of Multicultural Affairs. The fellowship program is designed to increase the number of historically disenfranchised and underrepresented professionals in student affairs and/or higher education. Fellows are given an opportunity to attend a national conference and participate in paid internships and a summer leadership institute. With more than 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses in 29 countries, NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education is the leading voice for student affairs administration, policy and practice.
Interfaith Chaplain Viki Brooks, DMin, has been awarded the 2009 Leadership Council on Inclusion Award (LCI) for her dedication to the Union College mission and her work on diversity and inclusion with students, faculty, staff and administrators. LCI enhances and promotes diversity and multicultural programs at educational institutions and agencies in New York’s Capital Region. In his award nomination, President Stephen C. Ainlay said Brooks “provides a gentle but consistent message about the ways in which our society has preconceived notions about religion, culture, and race that are harmful to individuals and to the community. She takes on difficult situations and topics as part of her mission to educate the campus community.”