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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 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Senior Riley Sullivan speaks on her time at BC

Brevard College Means Growth BY SHANNON SUMMITT ’19 Chances are if you’ve seen Riley Sullivan on campus, she’s got a beaming smile on her face. A Music Education major, she will…

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Senior project washed away and started anew, again

By Jessica Wiegandt Environmental Studies senior Kaylee Smith was steadily working on her senior project for BC when Hurricane Irma hit Florida and caused her research to be quite literally…

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Marine Biology class visits University of North Carolina Institute for Marine Sciences over fall break

By Jeni Welch ’19* Over fall break, students in Dr. Tina Bell’s Marine Biology class visited Morehead City in North Carolina to study marine organisms with hands-on experience at the…

Professor Nationally Recognized by Sierra Club

On September 12, the Sierra Club will honor Brevard College Professor Jim Reynolds at the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Francisco, California. Reynolds, a professor of Geology at the College, received…