Thanks to a $50,000 matching grant, the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont will reach out to underserved students this fall through an innovative Liberal Arts Ambassadors program. The collaborative project between Westmont and the University of La Verne involves college students from underserved groups engaging with prospective students in junior high and high schools.
They arrived with boxes, pillows, computers and probably some anxiety. For many of these teens, it鈥檚 their first time living away from home. 911爆料 340 first-year students representing the Class of 2009 have begun their 911爆料 career. The fall 2005 orientation kicked off Thursday, Aug. 25, as students arrived with their parents and unloaded their belongings into the residence halls.
Westmont has once again been listed among the nation鈥檚 top liberal arts colleges in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings, which were recently released.
U.S. News moved Westmont into the first tier with a ranking of 104th. The numeric rank puts Westmont in the top half of schools in each of 10 categories. Westmont is just one of two ranked members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
Westmont moved into the second tier from the third tier in 2003.
Westmont sociology professor Ron Enroth is no stranger to some of the world鈥檚 most unusual religions. In fact, he鈥檚 appeared on numerous television and radio broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News and Oprah as an expert cult consultant. Enroth penned, 鈥淵outh, Brainwashing and the Extremist Cults鈥 six months before the Jonestown massacre in 1978, the mass suicide that put the word 鈥渃ult鈥 on the map. He warned of other dangerous religions before the tragedies in Waco and with Heaven鈥檚 Gate. In 1982, he received the Leo J.
Several Westmont students have returned home following a trip to Sri Lanka to help children who lost their parents in the December 2004 tsunami. Four Westmont students joined Professor Thomas Jayawardene and his wife, Jasmine, on the month-long summer service trip. The group left July 3 to meet a team of 14 to serve with the Jayawardenes鈥 The Children of Joy. The organization is founding a new home for about a dozen orphaned children. It鈥檚 also set up a children鈥檚 center to provide food, clothing, medical care and school needs to 150 kids.
