Nitze Alumni: Where are they now?
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The world finds Nitze Scholars in a wide range of walks of life. Cookie cutters have their place...in the kitchen.
The Nitze Experience
The Paul H. Nitze Program Offers:
- A Leadership Seminar
- A Study Abroad Tour paid for by the program
- A stipend of $3000 per year for participants
Past Nitze
Seminars
- Education, Leadership and Social Change (1999)
- The U.S. War in Vietnam: American and Vietnamese Perspectives (2001)
- Shakespeare's London (2003)
Introduction
During the 2011-2012 year, Nitze Scholars will, among other activities:
- study the ethics of global aid, including whether and why those in well-off nations should give aid to those in much poorer nations.
- attend and make presentations at the annual conference of the Northeast Regional Honors Council (in Baltimore this year) and at the annual conference of the Maryland Collegiate Honors Council (in Frederick, Maryland this year).host this year's study how South African leaders on both the anti-apartheid and the government sides were eventually able to work out a relatively violence-free dismantling of apartheid.
- participate in a 2-week study tour to South Africa in May.
- meet and break bread three times throughout the year with this year's Nitze Senior Fellow, Sophie Delaunay, the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders, USA.
- study abroad for full semesters in places like Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, England (Oxford University), and France.
- attend performances of various plays, operas, and dances in Baltimore and D.C. (like at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).
Then there are the camping outing, the trips to museums, the Taber Teas, and many other gatherings large and small, planned and spontaneous.
The Nitze Scholars Program is designed for highly motivated students with exceptional academic potential and a demonstrated interest in studying leadership and practicing service. As part of a small cohort of peers (about 15 enter each year), Nitze Scholars meet some of the components of the core curriculum through a series of thematically organized interdisciplinary courses with special components such as a study-tour abroad and collaborative activities on campus, in addition to being required to satisfy some proficiencies (writing, mathematics, and foreign language) at an advanced level.
Last year, Nitze Scholars:
- studied the realities and the myths around Winston Churchill
- ran a charity auction and raffle at a national conference in D.C.,raising $2000 for the Youth Leadership Foundation in ONE evening (at the NCHC conference)
- hosted as last year's Nitze Senior Fellow the human rights activist John Prendergast
- studied the creation of the Latin American leadership style of caudillos
- participated in a 2-week study tour to Argentina in May.
