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23-February-1999 
99078 
 
    College News 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
SHERMAN, Texas - James A. Baker III, the 61st U.S. Secretary of State, will 
speak to students, alumni, volunteers and other members of the Austin 
College community on March 5. 
    Baker, the 1999 Austin College Chair of Excellence in International 
Leadership, held senior government posts under presidents Ford, Reagan and 
Bush. He is the third person appointed to the Austin chair, following Costa 
Rica President Oscar Arias in 1997 and Gen. Colin Powell in 1998. 
    Baker served from 1985-1988 as Secretary of the Treasury during the 
Reagan administration and was Reagan's White House chief of staff from 
1981-1985. He was Bush's chief of staff from 1992-1993. 
 
SWANNANOA, N.C. - Warren Wilson College is receiving five Salzburg Seminar 
fellowships for faculty over the next three years as the result of a grant 
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
    The fellowships enable faculty members to exchange ideas on 
international issues with peers from other countries. Faculty involvement 
in the seminar, held at the Schloss Leopoldskron palace near the center of 
Salzburg, Austria, is intended to increase global awareness and stimulate 
international perspective in the curriculum. 
     Warren Wilson is a four-year liberal arts college founded in 1894. It 
has a record enrollment of more than 700 students this year. 
 
STAUNTON, Va. - Mary Baldwin College announced in January the creation of a 
$3 million endowment in support of its Health Care Administration major. 
Dr. Steve Mosher, program director, said he believes it is the only program 
of its kind in the United States or Canada whose operations are funded 
through an endowment. 
    The Health Care Administration program at Mary Baldwin was created in 
1989 through the generosity of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter 
Foundation, an independent foundation whose interests include the arts, 
education, theological education and health. 
    The foundation supports the program's unique combination of study in 
the liberal arts with professional preparation. The program promotes the 
development of effective, humane and caring managers in the health care 
field. 
 
NEW YORK - College students from around the world participated in the 
eighth annual January Term: "Global Studies: The United Nations for a 
Better World," held by the Presbyterian United Nations office Jan. 4-21, a 
unique opportunity for students to examine the work of the United Nations 
and the international community. 
    This year, 31 participants from nine different countries attended, 
learning about the U.N.'s work in areas including peacekeeping and 
collective security, human rights, women's rights, the situation of 
children, economics, development and the role of the religious community. 
    These issues were explored through videos, presentations, dialogue with 
speakers and small-group discussions. Students were able to earn college 
credit for the program through Eckerd College, a Presbyterian-affiliated 
liberal arts and Presbyterian-affiliated college in St. Petersburg, Fla. 

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