Education for Afghan Women
I don't know how closely most of you have been following The Opinion Journal's coverage of the Yale fiasco concerning admission of a former Taliban spokesman, but I have been very intrigued by it. Apparently, not only has Yale admitted a former member of the Taliban, but they have refused a request to give a place to an Afghan woman. I fully admit that I do not know all of the details of this case, but it seems awfully ridiculous to me. See the editorial piece here.
The request to Yale for admission of an Afghan woman was made by a group called The Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. See their website here. Anyway, from what I can tell it seems like a really great program. Women who are ready for college are matched with institutions that are willing to give them a scholarship. Each summer they are required to return to Afghanistan to work in rebuilding the country, and after graduation they are expected to return to join the country's educated citizens in leading government, education, journalism, etc. Think we could talk HC into giving an Afghan woman a place?
The request to Yale for admission of an Afghan woman was made by a group called The Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. See their website here. Anyway, from what I can tell it seems like a really great program. Women who are ready for college are matched with institutions that are willing to give them a scholarship. Each summer they are required to return to Afghanistan to work in rebuilding the country, and after graduation they are expected to return to join the country's educated citizens in leading government, education, journalism, etc. Think we could talk HC into giving an Afghan woman a place?
posted by Victoria at 10:05 PM
10 Comments:
You're right, Victoria, this does sound like a great program, and it would be nice if more schools participated. But it's possible that convincing Huntington to give an Afghan woman a place might be easy compared to convincing an Afghan woman to attend a Christian college and then return to Afghanistan every summer in light of what recently happened in the case of Abdul Rahman. Although, it might be possible to play up the liberal arts/cultural experience angle, or whatever it was they did to get Chinese students there for J-term in the few years that actually happened. I bet there aren't that many Afghan women who are chemists, and Drs. Nalliah and Bordeaux are always looking for new majors, right? Perhaps it's worth a try.
[Mean nursing program joke: they do need lots of bodies to fill their first year nursing program quota...Really I'm kidding. These women deserve better...;)]
That was really more of a rhetorical, tongue in cheek type comment. HC probably isn't the ideal environment for a someone's first US experience.
I do appreciate the mean nursing program joke though. :-) If they can get the funding, faculty and students I'm sure it will be a good program though
The program sounds like a great one, and it would be interesting if HC could actually make it happen... I do not forsee this happening while I am here, though.
As for the nursing program (eyes roll), I have heard of quite a few students planning to attend HU because the nursing program will be starting. Has anyone told them that we still don't have a program director or professors or labs or classes for this program??? Oh dear.
You ladies are amazing!!!!! Miss you lots!
Alicia, do you mean to tell me that professors and labs are necessary for a nursing program? These folks are going to have to do SCIENCE?! I wonder if that was in the brochure...;)
Let's not even get me started on the nursing students here.
Actual nursing student quote: "You mean we have to measure things in this class?!"
Be afraid, be very afraid.
HC? What is this HC of which you write?
HU, pal!
P.S. Related to Victoria's comment above: I get to have my allergy shot administered this week by a brand new trainee at my doctor's office. I assume this girl has been to nursing school, but the actual nurse was taking such baby steps with her last week that it was scary, and she finally asked me if I was in a hurry, to which I responded "Yes", followed by the real nurse giving me the shot. Also, this nurse does not do a great job of doing the injections--it always hurts a lot, and she tends to put it on the inside of my upper arm (a very tender spot on anyone) instead of the back, whereas the nurses at the allergist's office are very fast and it never hurts. And so this is the nurse that is training the alarmingly inexperienced nurse-trainee. I am very afraid.
I feel like there should be an alternative for nursing students who don't want to measure things. Nursing ministry, anyone?
Oh dear!
For the record, there are some good nurses out there, who actually enjoyed their classes and didn't complain about the work they had to do to get their education. For example: my mother. Graduated #1 in her class and apparently has been known to give hip-shots that don't make people want to scream. :o) There is hope.... but sadly very, very little. :o)
Since I'm going to be here for a while, I'll be sure to keep you posted on the first round of recruits.... ;o)
I have great respect for nurses. They do hard work. I'm just concerned about the sort of folks who "want to be nurses" but instead of going to a school with an excellent nursing program (ex: GVSU) choose a school that doesn't yet have one at all. So as you say, Alicia, we shall hope for the best. And definitely keep us updated! :)
Hi, Victoria. I am so sorry I did not get to meet you in Chicago.
I hope you were not there when your daughter tumbled from her bike. It shook Andy up more than Shawna, with blood dripping from her mouth, the prospect of some sort of head (helmet in place, thank goodness) or neck injury and his "beloved" in pain.
She looks great, just a few bandages and bruises remain. Tom repeated an x-ray just to be sure.
Your baby is good to go--to Brown this week, I guess.
I love books, so stumbling on your blog was fun. I will submit some reading suggestions later. That Taliban guy at Yale...he probably got our Sally's spot, or at least it gives me perverse pleasure in thinking so. She has happily rebounded to Wake Forest.
Well, this is more like personal e-mail content than an appropriate blog comment, but, oh well ... .
Maribeth Fischer, Indianapolis
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