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Transylvania is known for its unique traditions and legacies. But it’s the personal transformation—the journey that leads Pioneers to their true path—that may be the most important tradition of all.
Grace Kim a rising junior at Transylvania University, will study in Seoul, South Korea, this fall as part of the International Studies Abroad program at Korea University. Because of the expanded GlobalTransy offerings, Kim will take advantage of a program tailored to her psychology major—and in the country of her choice. Not only will she stay on track academically, but all of her regular Transy tuition, room and board will be applied. How does the program fit into your major and keep you on track academically? As a current psychology major, this program fits in because I am taking all psychology classes at Korea University, and I am being kept on track academically because this institution offers me exciting electives for my major, such as Psycholinguistics and the Social Psychology of Dress. How is this new program helping you financially? I would have been paying out of pocket around $4,000-$5,000 without the help of GlobalTransy offerings. The new program is helping me financially through its relatively low cost of attendance. With the generous help of GlobalTransy, I will be able to participate in more excursions that will expand my overall cultural experience in South Korea. What difference is this new program making to your overall Transy experience? I know that being able to participate in this program is a unique lifetime experience that I will use to enlighten others about gaining an increased cultural awareness while studying abroad. What do
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Growing up in Cincinnati, Transylvania University senior Abby Cullen couldn’t quite put her thumb on what she wanted to do with her life. “That unsettled me,” she admits. But she hoped to work for the consumer. “I knew that, as a business person, I wanted to ensure that the customer was being respected and represented, and that their voice was always something in the back of our minds,” she explains. At the same time, she wanted the business to be successful. She just wasn’t sure how to “encapsulate it.” Although anthropology might not be seen as a traditional major for someone interested in business, Cullen says the discipline has helped her develop “very pertinent skillsets that apply to business fields.” She has made connections between the broad, structural theories she’s learned in the classroom and how to think about them in the context of the relationship between business and consumer. “I don’t think I had an a-ha moment as I was signing up for classes,” Cullen says, reflecting on how pursuing her interest in anthropology made her a better business job candidate. “It was more just being in class and seeing how these things actually connect pretty well. Not in the classical sense of being in a business class and talking about HR and diversity, but thinking about a cost analysis and how it is going to affect our consumer long-term, and how is it going to affect our quality.”
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Two juniors from Lexington have been selected as the 2019-20 recipients of the Charles and Susan Shearer Scholarship.
Transylvania University student Rhianna Culp has received a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which will help pay for her to study in the inaugural Transylvania in Ireland program this summer.
