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Shakespeare By The River
Shakespeare By The River
Shakespeare By The River
Shakespeare By The River
Shakespeare By The River
Shakespeare By The River
Shakespeare By The River’s performance of Into the Woods drew an audience of more than 1,200 people during the festival weekend at Muskingum Park. The Theatre at Marietta College will present an encore performance of Stephen Sondheim’s original musical during Homecoming Weekend. The performance will take place from 8:00-10:30 p.m. Friday, October 14th on the steps of Hermann Fine Arts Center.
Alumna selected for fellowship at Big 4 accounting firm
Over the summer, Tara Clinton Moore ’18 reached out to two of her former professors at Marietta to give them an update about her newest professional opportunity.
In July, she began the While You Work Fellowship program to earn a Master’s in Management with a concentration in accounting analytics.
“The While You Work Fellowship is a program at (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) for Black and Latinx recent college graduates seeking to obtain the additional credit hours needed to be eligible for the CPA exam,” Moore says. “The fellowship allows us to work part-time for PwC while we complete an online master's degree program through Northeastern University.”
Moore, who was a Political Science major at Marietta, is currently an Assurance Specialist at the Big 4 accounting firm. She reached out to Professor Grace Johnson and Assistant Professor James Karan, who are both faculty in Marietta’s Business and Economics Department.
“Tara was an engaged and active student in my accounting and international business courses,” Johnson says. “Her classmates and I could always count on Tara to draw insightful connections between textbook materials and their business world applications.”
Moore says the B&E Department as a whole helped her get accepted into the PriceWaterhouseCoopers program.
“It was really comforting knowing that I could reach out to both Professor Johnson and Dr. Karan for my letters of recommendation for the program, both were very eager to help me and were genuinely invested in my success,” Moore says.
In her email to Johnson and Karan, Moore thanked them for helping her become a well-rounded professional, as they did for all of their students.
Tara Clinton Moore ’18
Tara Clinton Moore ’18
“By being active in our Accounting Meet & Greet program, a monthly series of professional development events for our majors, Tara had the opportunity to practice and hone valuable business networking and communication skills,” Johnson says. “Majors in Accounting receive a broad education in business topics in addition to the various accounting sub-disciplines of audit, cost, financial, managerial, tax, and systems. Every government, not-for-profit, and corporate organization looks for that special combination of accounting knowledge and business awareness in an accounting new hire. Marietta delivers this kind of accounting education. Paired with its traditional emphases on the liberal arts, problem-solving, and communication, Marietta’s accounting majors are ready for anything.”
MC Bridges to Teaching will address the teacher shortage
$200,000 grant allows College to start program that will help school districts around Ohio and the nation
In Summer 2023, Marietta College’s Education Department plans to welcome its first 15 students into a teaching initiative that offers an affordable and timely option for recent college graduates and career-changers to pursue teaching licenses in high-need fields.
The Education Department is currently developing a list of interested students who wish to apply for competitive spots in this first cohort.
The College can offer this program after receiving a $200,000 grant awarded by the Ohio Department of Higher Education and the Ohio Department of Education. The grant is through the Addressing Educator Shortages in Ohio Grant Program.
“Pending approval by the ODHE, we will not only start the program, but we will be able to award tuition vouchers that will cover tuition costs for a first cohort of 15 students,” says Dr. Tanya Judd, Education Department Chair. “This program is a wonderful opportunity for liberal arts graduates and career changers in Ohio and throughout the country to complete a post-baccalaureate teacher license program that is designed to be adult-friendly, accessible, affordable and quickly accomplished to ensure timely entry into identified teacher shortage positions.”
Judd says that the post baccalaureate program in middle childhood education, special education, and adolescent young adult (grades 7-12) social studies, mathematics, English language arts, and the sciences will build on a college graduate's content knowledge by providing online, asynchronous courses and clinical experiences aligned with requirements for a teaching license.
While the grant support will allow the first cohort of 15 post-baccalaureate students to complete the program with tuition costs covered by the grant, tuition for succeeding candidates will be competitively based. Students will attend classes fully online and will benefit from a strong faculty mentor program that will involve regular conversations and check-ins with Marietta College faculty members.
The Marietta College Bridges to Teaching Initiative will create three pathways for prospective teachers with the goal of increasing the supply of fully licensed teachers for schools. Grant funds will enable Marietta College to:
- Develop a College Credit Plus Bridge to enhance the ongoing efforts to attract high school students to teacher preparation through college credit plus opportunities.
- Develop a 2+2 Bridge to reimagine the articulation work with community colleges, allowing for an affordable and timely 2+2 pathway to completion of a bachelor’s degree and teaching license
- Develop a Post-Baccalaureate Bridge to allow an affordable and timely option for recent college graduates and career-changers to pursue teaching licenses in high need fields.
Judd says Bridges to Teaching will focus on the recruitment and retention of teacher candidates for Marietta’s dual primary/special education, middle childhood/special education, physical education/special education (pending), and adolescent young adult programs leading to licenses in English language arts, mathematics, social studies, and the sciences.
For more information about the MC Bridges to Teaching initiative, please contact Dr. Tanya Judd at tj002@marietta.edu or Dr. Amanda Rider at anr003@marietta.edu.
Celebrating Homecoming’s Centennial
It has taken months of planning and collaboration between the College and the city to create a Homecoming Weekend worthy enough to celebrate the 100th anniversary of alumni’s return to campus.
Since 1922, Marietta College has been hosting a special weekend inviting alumni back to campus. This year, the event will span from campus to downtown with the theme “Paint the Town Blue.”
“Marietta College definitely became a home to alumni when they were students, but the city also became their home,” says Dr. Erika Smith, Director of Alumni Engagement. “There are a lot of memories that our alumni have of their time at Marietta that involved this wonderful city, too.”
Homecoming is set for October 13-16.
“Many of our downtown merchants are participating in mini-events to celebrate Homecoming this year,” Smith says. “Our Homecoming students are decorating storefronts that celebrate ‘Paint the Town Blue.’ There are 60 different events planned for campus and in the community.”
Smith and her team worked with Jen Tinkler, Executive Director of Marietta Main Street, a local nonprofit that focuses on community and economic development.
“I attended Marietta so it’s near and dear to my heart,” Tinkler says. “A lot of the stores do a lot for Marietta College students. They understand the value of the College.”
Smith anticipates more current students will attend the Homecoming events.
“We celebrated a double Homecoming last year for (2020 and 2021) and I hope we have that kind of attendance this year,” Smith says. “We have planned such a wonderful 100th anniversary celebration of Homecoming and all of the programs can be enjoyed by our alumni, students and the community.
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