Higher Education Check-In, December, 2006
Network Chair: Susan Hanson
Email Address: sh17@txstate.edu
What is the purpose of this Network’s ministry? To encourage student leadership, to be a resource and network for chaplains, to serve as an advocate for campus ministry to the larger church, to develop a community that engages in worship, study, and service
What is the structure of this Network? We have one representative from each diocese, selected by the chair. Some of these chaplains serve in stand-alone ministries, while others are connected to parishes.
What are some highlights to report?
• Ten students, two chaplains, and two mentors from the Lutheran-Episcopal campus ministry at Texas State traveled to New York for spring break to work in several soup kitchens in the city.
• Susan Hanson attended the annual leadership meeting of Province VII at Mustang Island, Texas.
• Four chaplains from Province VII attended the chaplains’ gathering in June: Susan Hanson (Texas State), Hershel Hartford (U. of Arkansas), Mike Kyle (Diocese of W. Missouri), and Russ Pollock (Southwest Oklahoma State).
• Two students from Texas State and three from the Diocese of W. Missouri attended the Young Adult Festival.
• A friend of Canterbury at Texas Tech gave $10,000 to improve communications by and among campus ministries in the province. Susan developed guidelines for distributing the funds and then invited campus ministers from around the province to apply for grants of up to $1,000. The following ministries received grants: the Diocese of West Missouri, Lamar University, Rice University, Southwest Oklahoma State, Stephen F. Austin University, Texas A&M University, Texas State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Texas.
• Staff changes:
Departures
Nan Doerr, Sam Houston State University
David Krause, Texas Tech University
Ken Leonczyk, Jr., Southern Methodist University
Lew Powell, University of New Mexico
Newcomers
Nate Bostian, Southern Methodist University
Lauren Browder, Texas Tech University
Nan Doerr, University of Houston
Mike Kyle, Diocese of West Missouri
Steve Segebrecht, University of Kansas/Diocese of Kansas (parish)
Ed Ziegler, Houston Community College (parish)
• The Diocese of West Texas will be providing its students with transportation to Celebrate, the national ecumenical student gathering to be held in New Orleans Dec. 28-Jan. 1, 2007. Eight students, along with chaplain Susan Hanson, will be attending from Texas State University. Participants are also expected from Rice University, Texas Tech University, the University of Arkansas, and the Diocese of West Missouri.
• Andrew Phillips, a graduate of Rice University and missionary with the Young Adult Servant Corps in the Dominican Republic, has invited the campus ministries of Province VII to travel to Santiago for spring break. There they would work with the ministry at La Anunciacion Church and School, staying either at the church or with local host families.
Budget:
This year we have spent approximately one-third of our provincial allotment of $6500.
Our expenses are as follows:
$395.70—American Airlines, Coordinator’s travel to chaplains’ meeting
500.00—Diocese of West Missouri, travel to the Young Adult Festival
75.00—Diocese of West Missouri, Celebrate scholarship
300.00—Ministry at Texas A&M, Celebrate scholarships
1190.00—Ministry at Texas State, Celebrate registrations
$2460.70 Total Expenditures |
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Higher Ed Ministry Network Contact Information Network Chair Susan Hanson, Diocese of Texas sh17@txstate.edu |
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Tyler Pruessner (far right) from Dallas and Allison Martinez from San Antonio, along with a friend from Washington, D.C., meet with the Presiding Bishop during the Young Adult Festival in Columbus, OH, held in conjunction with General Convention. Click on MORE to read Tyler's article, written for The Invite, the Young Adult Festival's newsletter.
Three students from Western Missouri also attended the Young Adult Festival: Graham McKim, St. Matthew's, Raytown; Sean Burns-Sprung, Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kansas City; and Rachel Ost, St. Paul's, Maryville.
At least two chaplains from Province VII attended General Convention as delegates: Hershel Hartford, chaplain at the University of Arkansas and Canon for Ministry in Higher Education, Diocese of Arkansas; and the Rev. Mary Hileman, who served as the Chair of the Oklahoma Deputation and was also a member of the Legislative Committee on Domestic Mission and Evangelism.
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Learn about Susan Hanson
Network Chair for Higher Education
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Susan Hanson, a resident of San Marcos, Texas, has served as Province 7 Coordinator for Ministry in Higher Education since September 2004. A longtime member of the English faculty at Texas State University-San Marcos, she took the position as Episcopal chaplain there in 1996; she now serves as co-chaplain in what has become, in the last four years, a joint Lutheran-Episcopal campus ministry. For 20 years, Susan also worked as a journalist, writing primarily feature stories, book reviews, and a weekly column that focused on nature, among other things. Her essay collection, ICONS OF LOSS AND GRACE: MOMENTS FROM THE NATURAL WORLD, was published by Texas Tech University Press in 2004. WHAT WILDNESS IS THIS: WOMEN WRITE ABOUT THE SOUTHWEST, a collection she co-edited, will be released by the University of Texas Press in the spring of 2007. Her work has also appeared in EARTHLIGHT, WRITING NATURE, ISLE (INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT), NORTHERN LIGHTS, SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, and TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE. Her essay "Deep in the Heart: A Texan Looks at the Night Sky" will appear in the collection LET THERE BE NIGHT:
TESTIMONY ON BEHALF OF THE DARK, to be published by the University of Nevada Press in 2007.
Susan lives with her husband, Larry, and has a grown daughter in Austin. She enjoys native plant gardening, camping and hiking, reading mysteries, doing photography, and working on the web sites she maintains.
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Province VII sent several representatives to the joint ELCA/ECUSA national chaplains' conference, which took place at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, June 26-29. Pictured are the Rev. Douglas Fenton, national ECUSA staff officer for Young Adult and Higher Education Ministries; Susan Hanson, Province VII's Coordinator for Ministry in Higher Education; Russ Pollack, chaplain at Southwest Oklahoma State University; and Hershel Hartford, chaplain at the University of Arkansas and Canon for Campus Ministry. Not pictured but also attending was the Rev. Mike Kyle, coordinator for campus ministry for the Diocese of West Missouri.
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Higher Ed/Campus Ministry Directory, 2007
Source: Province VII
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Document Description: Please check the 2006 Higher Ed database information and contact network chair Susan Hanson about any changes that need to be made. Susan says it would be a BIG help if you could verify contact info for other sites in your diocese and let her know of any staff changes. Email Susan at mailto:atsh17@synergy.txstate.edu, and thanks for your help!
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Meet Province VII's Student Representative to the National Episcopal Student Leadership Team
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Andrew Davis, a native of Lubbock and now a senior majoring in mathematical economics at Rice University, is the Province VII representative to the national Episcopal Student Leadership Team. He'd like to pass on this message about Celebrate!, the ecumenical student gathering scheduled for Dec. 28-Jan. 1 in New Orleans:
Hello and good news. The Celebrate! Web site is finally up and can be found at <http://www.cescm.org/Celebrate06/>. This Web site contains detailed information about when and where the conference will be held. There is a general schedule for the event, although the Episcopal schedule is still undergoing some slight alterations. It is going to be a lot of fun and I hope that we can all work to gather as much student support as possible. I don't like to harp on money, but I would like to emphasize that the cost per student is $275. So, if at all possible, it would be wonderful if all the different ministries tried to work scholarships into the budget so that as many students as possible can attend.
Thank you,
Andrew Davis
andrew.b.davis@rice.edu
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