Schools With The Most Peace Corps Volunteers - PQU

Schools With The Most Peace Corps Volunteers by: Gregory Yang on April 11, 2019 | 0 Comments Comments 601 Views April 11, 2019It’s August 2016 and Michelle Rosamond, a community outreach coordinator for the Second Harvest Food Bank, is in southern Louisiana helping victims recover from major floods. A prolonged rain event dropped up to 20 inches of rain in some locations, causing catastrophic flooding leading Governor John Bel Edwards to declare a state of emergency. Once historically flooded rivers started to recede, thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed, leading to billions of dollars in damage.Rosamond, a graduate of Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business, always knew she wanted to help others, but it wasn’t until this particular moment that she fully realized just how powerful a career in volunteering could be.â€Å"After the floods, I witnessed the generosity and kindness of thousands of people who came to volunteer at Second Harvest or donated money or food to help the victims of the floods recover,† Rosamond says. â€Å"Working through that particular instance of disaster response reinforced my passion for working in the nonprofit sector and helped me realize there are always people who want to do good and make a difference in others’ lives.†Michelle Rosamond. Courtesy photoB-SCHOOLS PRODUCING VOLUNTEERSRosamond is one of many B-school grads who chose to pursue a volunteer career after graduating.Peace Corps recently announced its top volunteer-producing schools of 2019. Tulane University ranked 3rd out of medium-sized colleges and universities as a top volunteer-producing school. The University of Wisconsin-Madison came in at #1 among large schools that produce the most volunteers. And many of this years  PoetsQuants Best Undergraduate Business Schools made the large- and medium school-lists.â€Å"We pride ourselves in developing well-rounded students who see themselves as contributing to the greater good,† Jim Franzone, assistant dean of the BBA Program at Wisconsin School of Business, says. â€Å"The Wisconsin undergraduate business degree help students develop technical skills and problem-solving expertise, and our curriculum is also strongly grounded in a liberal arts education. Wisconsin School of Business students graduate not just wanting to get a job or start a career, but they want to make a difference in the state, country, and as with Peace Corps, the world.†APPLYING A BUSINESS EDUCATION TO VOLUNTEER WORK  While most B-school grads choose to pursue finance, consulting, marketing, or accounting jobs at big corporations, a B-school education can be just as applicable to a volunteer career.Sam Ingalls is the program director for Southwest Florida YMCA Youth In Government.Ingalls, who graduated from Tulane’s Freeman School of Business in 2016, says the business and nonprofit worlds are not as different as many people may think.â€Å" In B-school you learn what it takes to responsibly manage a business,† he says. â€Å"Nonprofits are no different in the bottom line — you must bring in revenue to meet expenses, while also saving enough to grow your organization and impact. There aren’t owners at the end of the day, but there are still abundant opportunities to use revenue for capital investment, new staff, and program offerings. My business education absolutely prepared me for managing all the nuances of my own program.†Courtney Boman is a Peace Corps Volunteer who graduated with a business degree from California State University, Fullerton. As a Community Economic Development (CED) Volunteer, Boman works with small enterprises and entrepreneurship development in Namibia.She says her experience working with startups and small businesses in the past has definitely helped her with her volunteer work in the Peace Corps.â€Å"While in business school, I worked two jobs, one internship, mult iple volunteer jobs, and was involved in a business club which continued to develop my skills,† she says. â€Å"My education was absolutely necessary for my volunteer work in the Peace Corps. If I’m to be an expert resource to my community, I must have the knowledge and skills to do so.†PEACE CORPS SERVICE IS NOT FOR EVERYONEWhile b-schools can offer the foundational skills needed to succeed in the volunteering world, it takes more than just business skills to succeed.â€Å"Flexibility, an open mind, and a willingness to learn are strong qualities that make successful volunteers,† Matt Sheehey, a Peace Corps spokesperson, says.Peace Corps specifically looks for volunteers with a college degree who are committed to serving others.â€Å"Peace Corps service is not for everyone,† Sheehey continues. â€Å"But for those who are eager to see the world, step outside their comfort zones, find common ground with people from all walks of life, and become a pa rt of something far greater than themselves, the Peace Corps is the answer.†Rosamond, the Second Harvest community outreach coordinator, says B-school gave her the foundational skills she needed to succeed. However, if you’re a B-school student interested in a nonprofit career, the best way to learn may just be to try it out. You might just realize how powerful it can be, Rosamond advises.â€Å"I recommend students get involved with various nonprofits while they are still in school,† Rosamond says. â€Å"Every organization is different, and I believe it is worthwhile to learn about the types of organizations you like and have a natural interest in. Volunteering and interning are great ways to get involved, and most nonprofits would love to work with students who have a business background.†(SEE THE NEXT PAGE FOR THE TOP 15 LARGE- AND MEDIUM-SIZED SCHOOLS FOR PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS.) Page 1 of 212 »

The 19th Century Bone Wars

When most people think of the Wild West, they picture Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, and caravans of settlers in covered wagons. But for paleontologists, the American west in the late 19th century conjures up one image above all: the enduring rivalry between two of this countrys greatest fossil hunters, Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. The Bone Wars, as their feud became known, stretched from the 1870s well into the 1890s, and resulted in hundreds of new dinosaur finds--not to mention reams of bribery, trickery, and outright theft, as well get to later. (Knowing a good subject when it sees one, HBO recently announced plans for a movie version of the Bone Wars starring James Gandolfini and Steve Carell; sadly, Gandolfinis sudden death has put the project in limbo.) In the beginning, Marsh and Cope were cordial, if somewhat wary, colleagues, having met in Germany in 1864 (at the time, western Europe, not the United States, was at the forefront of paleontology research). Part of the trouble stemmed from their different backgrounds: Cope was born into a wealthy Quaker family in Pennsylvania, while Marshs family in upstate New York was comparatively poor (albeit with a very rich uncle, who enters the story later). Its probable that, even then, Marsh considered Cope a bit of a dilettante, not really serious about paleontology, while Cope saw Marsh as too rough and uncouth to be a true scientist. The Fateful Elasmosaurus Most historians trace the start of the Bone Wars to 1868, when Cope reconstructed a strange fossil sent to him from Kansas by a military doctor. Naming the specimen Elasmosaurus, he placed its skull on the end of its short tail, rather than its long neck (to be fair to Cope, to that date no had ever seen an aquatic reptile with such out-of-whack proportions). When he discovered this error, Marsh (as the legend goes) humiliated Cope by pointing it out in public, at which point Cope tried to buy (and destroy) every copy of the scientific journal in which he had published his incorrect reconstruction. This makes for a good story--and the fracas over Elasmosaurus certainly contributed to the enmity between the two men--but the Bone Wars likely started on a more serious note. Cope had discovered the fossil site in New Jersey that yielded the fossil of Hadrosaurus, named by the two mens mentor, the famous paleontologist Joseph Leidy. When he saw how many bones had yet to be recovered from the site, Marsh paid the excavators to send any interesting finds to him, rather than to Cope. Cope soon found out about this gross violation of scientific decorum, and the Bone Wars began in earnest. Into the West What kicked the Bone Wars into high gear was the discovery, in the 1870s, of numerous dinosaur fossils in the American west (some of these finds were made accidentally, during excavation work for the Transcontinental Railroad). In 1877, Marsh received a letter from Colorado schoolteacher Arthur Lakes, describing the saurian bones he had found during a hiking expedition; Lakes sent sample fossils to both Marsh and (because he didn’t know if Marsh was interested) Cope. Characteristically, Marsh paid Lakes $100 to keep his discovery a secret--and when he discovered that Cope had been notified, dispatched an agent west to secure his claim. Around the same time, Cope was tipped off to another fossil site in Colorado, which Marsh tried (unsuccessfully) to horn in on. By this time, it was common knowledge that Marsh and Cope were competing for the best dinosaur fossils--which explains the subsequent intrigues centered on Como Bluff, Wyoming. Using pseudonyms, two workers for the Union Pacific Railroad alerted Marsh to their fossil finds, hinting (but not stating explicitly) that they might strike a deal with Cope if Marsh didnt offer generous terms. True to form, Marsh dispatched another agent, who made the necessary financial arrangements--and soon the Yale-based paleontologist was receiving boxcars of fossils, including the first specimens of Diplodocus, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus. Word about this exclusive arrangement soon spread--not least because the Union Pacific employees leaked the scoop to a local newspaper, exaggerating the prices Marsh had paid for the fossils in order to bait the trap for the wealthier Cope. Soon, Cope sent his own agent westward, and when these negotiations proved unsuccessful (possibly because he wasnt willing to pony up enough money), he instructed his prospector to engage in a bit of fossil-rustling and steal bones from the Como Bluff site, right under Marshs nose. Soon afterward, fed up with Marshs erratic payments, one of the railroad men began working for Cope instead, turning Como Bluff into the epicenter of the Bone Wars. By this time, both Marsh and Cope had relocated westward, and over the next few years engaged in such hijinks as deliberately destroying uncollected fossils and fossil sites (so as to keep them out of each others hands), spying on each others excavations, bribing employees, and even stealing bones outright. According to one account, workers on the rival digs once took time out from their labors to pelt each other with stones! Next Page: The Bone Wars Get Personal Cope and Marsh, Bitter Enemies to the Last By the 1880’s, it was clear that Othniel C. Marsh was winning the Bone Wars. Thanks to the support of his wealthy uncle, George Peabody (who lent his name to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History), Marsh could hire more employees and open more dig sites, while Edward Drinker Cope slowly but surely fell behind. It didnt help matters that other parties, including a team from Harvard University, now joined the dinosaur gold rush. Cope continued to publish numerous papers, but, like a political candidate taking the low road, Marsh made hay out of every tiny mistake he could find. Cope soon had his opportunity for revenge. In 1884, Congress began an investigation into the U.S. Geological Survey, which Marsh had been appointed the head of a few years before. Cope recruited a number of Marshs employees to testify against their boss (who wasnt the easiest person in the world to work for), but Marsh connived to keep their grievances out of the newspapers. Cope then upped the ante: drawing on a journal he had kept for two decades, in which he meticulously listed Marshs numerous felonies, misdemeanors and scientific errors, he supplied the information to a journalist for the New York Herald, which ran a sensational series about the Bone Wars. Marsh issued a rebuttal in the same newspaper, hurling similar accusations against Cope. In the end, this public airing of dirty laundry (and dirty fossils) didnt benefit either party. Marsh was asked to resign his lucrative position at the Geological Survey, and Cope, after a brief interval of success (he was appointed head of the National Association for the Advancement of Science), was beset by poor health and had to sell off portions of his hard-won fossil collection. By the time Cope died in 1897, both men had squandered their considerable fortunes. Characteristically, though, Cope prolonged the Bone Wars even from his grave. One of his last requests was that scientists dissect his head after his death to determine the size of his brain, which he was certain would be bigger than Marshs. Wisely, perhaps, Marsh declined the challenge, and to this day, Copes unexamined head rests in storage at the University of Pennsylvania. The Bone Wars: Let History Judge As tawdry, undignified, and out-and-out ridiculous as the Bone Wars occasionally were, they had a profound effect on American paleontology. In the same way competition is good for commerce, it can also be good for science: so eager were Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope to one-up each other that they discovered many more dinosaurs than if theyd merely engaged in a friendly rivalry. The final tally was truly impressive: Marsh discovered 80 new dinosaur genera and species, while Cope named a more-than-respectable 56. The fossils discovered by Marsh and Cope also helped to feed the American publics increasing hunger for new dinosaurs. Each major discovery was accompanied by a wave of publicity, as magazines and newspapers illustrated the latest amazing finds--and the reconstructed skeletons slowly but surely made their way to major museums, where they still reside to the present day. You might say that popular interest in dinosaurs really began with the Bone Wars, though its arguable that it would have come about naturally, without all the bad feelings! The Bone Wars had a couple of negative consequences, as well. First, paleontologists in Europe were horrified by the crude behavior of their American counterparts, which left a lingering, bitter distrust that took decades to dissipate. And second, Cope and Marsh described and reassembled their dinosaur finds so quickly that they were occasionally careless. For example, a hundred years of confusion about Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus can be traced directly back to Marsh, who put a skull on the wrong body--the same way Cope did with Elasmosaurus, the incident that started the Bone Wars in the first place!

The Commercialisation of Sport Essay - 633 Words

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