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16 May 1996 
 
 
 
96175                      College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
STERLING, Kan.--Sterling College opened its new $3.2 million Mabee Library 
April 22. The new facility features expanded book storage with more than 
100,000-volume capacity and expanded capability to do research 
electronically with 30 computer work stations from which students will be 
able to access online catalogs, more than 50 online data bases and the 
Internet. A formal dedication ceremony for the facility is scheduled 
commencement day, May 18. 
 
WAUKESHA, Wis.--Dorothy Ganfield Fowler of Waukesha, Wis., has made a 
$250,000 contribution to the Carroll College endowment to support the Clara 
Broadman Ganfield scholarship fund. The scholarship is in memory of 
Fowler's mother.  Her father was Dr. William A. Ganfield, Carroll's 
president from 1921 to 1939.  Fowler graduated from Carroll in 1923 and 
previously made a $250,000 contribution to the endowment to establish the 
Jane Ganfield Library Fund in honor of her late sister, a 1932 Carroll 
graduate. The gift will be used to provide scholarships, based on financial 
need, to full-time students. 
 
ATLANTA--The Emory University Law and Religion Program has receieved a 
grant of $318,000 from the Ford Foundation to support research and public 
policy analysis of the legal, religious and human rights aspects of 
cultural transformation in Africa. "The project will seek to identify and 
examine both negative and positive contributions of law and religion to the 
promotion and realization of a human rights culture in Africa," says 
Abdullah An-Na'im, professor of law and principal dirctor of the project. 
The planning phase will begin June 22 in Atlanta with a meeting of 
U.S.-based Africanists and civil rights scholars and activists. 
 
MONTREAT, N.C.--Montreat College's computer technology project to link 
on-campus and off-campus communities in the Montreat and Black Mountain 
areas through the Internet and electronic mail service has received a major 
boost from the Microsoft Corporation, which donated computer software and 
support valued at $64,494. The donation to the college comes as part of the 
company's $1.3 million gift to the Independent College Fund of North 
Carolina, a group of 28 prestigious liberal arts colleges and universities. 

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