{"id":308,"date":"2013-03-26T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2013-04-24T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:55:00","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/our-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: green;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment has several goals:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expand the capacity of faculty to teach and lead programming about Asia and the environment<\/li>\n<li>Expand ties between East Asian Studies and other departments and disciplines<\/li>\n<li>Build and maintain infrastructure to effectively teach about these subjects<\/li>\n<li>Expose students to connections between the study of Asia and environmental concerns across all levels of their undergraduate careers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To achieve these objectives, Dickinson College&#8217;s plans include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing the model developed in our Exploration Grant of offering courses in Asia co-taught by faculty from East Asian Studies and other science and social science departments<\/li>\n<li>Organizing research colloquia for faculty and interested students, and to include a film series, visiting speakers, and short residencies for scholars who focus on Asian environmental issues<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a two year post-doctoral teaching fellowship for a natural scientist with field experience in Asia<\/li>\n<li>Incentivising the development of new courses or new modules within courses with an Asian focus through course reassignments and course development grants<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging field-based Asian language learning through environmental activities on-site at the College Organic Farm and other places on campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment The mission of the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment has several goals: Expand the capacity of faculty to teach and lead programming about Asia and the environment Expand ties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/our-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1531,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/luce-asian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}