Faculty Spotlights & Academic Life at Brevard
Brevard College professors are highly engaged in the classroom and within the wider academic community. Faculty are active scholars within their academic fields and are masters of making their highly-specialized knowledge accessible to the students.
Brevard College Rover Project Underway
By Brevard College Junior Carmen Boone, ’20 The rovers are robots, tools that can be controlled from the classroom by remote sensing. Originally, they were designed to give students an opportunity…
Students Prepare For 21-day Expedition
By Brevard College Junior Chloe McGee, ‘20 A group of 11 Brevard College students led by wilderness leadership and experiential education (WLEE) professor John Buford make up the crew of…
Campus Wide Attention to Student Success
Brevard College is making a bold commitment to student success. With the help of the John Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Brevard College has begun the BC CARES…
Two Grants from the Appalachian Colleges Association Strengthen Experiential Curriculum
Two Brevard College Professors Take Sabbatical to Better Their Programs Curriculum The word sabbatical comes from the Latin sabbaticus meaning “ceasing.” Sabbatical has come to mean a period of time,…
Brevard Professor Uses His Passion For Numbers To Connect With Students
By Brevard College Senior Shannon Summitt, ‘19 One Brevard professor uses his passion for numbers to connect with students. Brad Bilsky, Assistant Professor of Business and Organizational Leadership at Brevard…
IWIL Begins Annual Mentoring for Local Middle School Students
By Mary Lewe ’20* First-year members of the Institute for Women in Leadership have been spending their Tuesday afternoons this semester with a group of sixth-grade girls at Brevard Middle…
3rd Annual Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference Deadline: 4 March
BREVARD – The deadline is fast approaching to participate in the 2018 Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference sponsored by Brevard College and the Transylvania County Library Foundation. The 4- day conference…
How Criminal Justice Became One of Brevard College’s Fastest Growing Majors
By Alex Perri Since 2014, Brevard College’s Criminal Justice program has grown significantly, and it is largely due to one professor’s mission to make Criminal Justice students as prepared as…
Brevard College’s half tuition option for locals makes education affordable
BY SHANNON SUMMITT ’19 Junior Taylor Morris grew up in Henderson County and spent her childhood summers exploring Pisgah Forest and downtown Brevard. Due to health issues, Morris knew she would…
New Class Combines Criminal Justice and Theatre to Create Videos for the Community
BY SHANNON SUMMITT ’19 Brevard College has an exciting new class that takes students out of the classroom and puts them on set. A Special Topics Seminar, the class focuses…