Thoughts on Virginia Tech’s visit to WaM and Vanderbilt

Doug Fisher is the Faculty Director of Warren College. This post reflects Doug’s opinions and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University. During the first week of Spring semester, Warren and Moore hosted a group from Virginia Tech’s Honors Residential College (HRC). The Faculty Principal, akin to Faculty Directors at Warren and Moore and Heads of…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on January 23, 2016 in News

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Visitors from Virginia Tech’s Honors Residential College

Welcome back, everyone! Visitors from Virginia Tech’s Honors Residential College (HRC) are visiting this week. They will be arriving late afternoon on Tuesday, January 12 and departing about Noon on Thursday, January 14. The visitors team includes the Faculty Principal (aka Faculty Director or Head of House) of HRC, a “Graduate Fellow”, and 6 members…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on January 11, 2016 in News

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Nathaniel Rich at the Warren and Moore Environmental Series Dinner: Addressing modern anxieties through fiction

This is a guest post by Alisha Newton. Alisha is a junior in Peabody College and the editor-in-chief of Orbis, a student-run publication on environmental issues. Last month, I attended a dinner with author Nathaniel Rich to discuss his novel Odds Against Tomorrow, which has been hailed as the pioneering work of a new genre…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on October 27, 2015 in News

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Open House and the Warren Faculty, Grad Fellow, and Study Suite

Welcome back! Don’t forget the Open House at the Warren College Faculty apartment (B503) from 9:30 am to Noon on Sunday, August 23 (students, family, and friends welcome). And see the homemade tour of the Warren College Faculty Office suite, with the Warren College Faculty Director and the Warren Graduate Fellows. The tour features a…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on August 21, 2015 in News

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Move in is around the corner!

Move in is less than two weeks away! Wow! Its been a great summer, but as with every summer of my 28 years at Vanderbilt, I’m looking forward to the return of students. For most of those years, its been computer science and engineering students I’ve welcomed back, then McGill students, and now Warren (and…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on August 10, 2015 in News

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The Truth about Warren and Moore Colleges

At the very end of Spring 2015, VandyRadio interviewed Moore Faculty Director Jim Lovensheimer, Area Coordinator Matthew Sinclair, and me. The interview was posted on the College Halls at Vanderbilt Facebook group, which is where I discovered it last night. On listening, I was struck by how articulate Matthew and Dr. L were, and also…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on July 23, 2015 in News

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A WaMily College Halls Cookbook

Jo Ann McIntire, the College Halls Administrative Assistant, pointed out that the Vanderbilt Admissions blog had a recent post on selected eateries in the vicinity of Vanderbilt (http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2015/07/what-we’re-eating-summer-2015-edition/). Jo Ann’s idea was to do something similar on the College Halls blog — what a great idea! We’ve been wanting more activity on the blog, and…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on July 21, 2015 in News

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Warren and Moore Alums

The last day of class is just 3 weeks away, and in a year of firsts, Warren and Moore Colleges will each have their first alums a short time later! I hope that Warren College alums will continue to talk with us, through our Warren and College Halls Facebook groups, through other digital connections that…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on March 27, 2015 in News

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quaerenti unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno

I think that most all understand the policy on study abroad students wanting to return to Warren College (or Moore College) — they will have to reapply to Warren and Moore in the open lottery, though they will receive a priority status relative to other students who are in their class (e.g., among other rising…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on February 11, 2015 in Moore, News, Warren

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Students will have the right to return to their College

This is a guest post by Doug Fisher, Faculty Director of Warren College. Over Thanksgiving break, a Warren resident told me that some Warren and Moore students were confused on the rules regarding whether rising juniors and rising seniors would be able to stay at Warren or Moore, respectively. The answer is “YES!”, unless a…

Posted by Douglas Fisher on November 28, 2014 in Moore, News, Warren

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