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Welcome to my internship journey!

Rain notwithstanding, 2024 Commencement and the other events surrounding it were full of celebration, pride and more than a few happy tears.

For those of you whose students will graduate in the next few years, here’s a preview of what you have to look forward to.

For those of you whose students received their Longwood degrees this past weekend, congratulations on your Lancers’ accomplishments! As the parent of a college graduate myself, I know that you played no small part in getting them to that culminating moment. Even though it’s only been a week, it’s never too soon to relive such a happy occasion!

Undergraduate Commencement, Joan Perry Brock Center
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Undergraduate Commencement Video
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Graduate Commencement, Joan Perry Brock Center
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Princeps Secret Society Reveal
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(Find out more about Princeps at www.go.longwood.edu/princeps )

Nursing Pinning Ceremony
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Diploma Signing Ceremony
President Reveley and the rector of the Board of Visitors personally sign the diplomas of selected student leaders each year.
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—Sabrina Brown

Ahem… Hi!

My name is Sammy Cake. My pronouns are she/they, I am a rising junior at Longwood University (in the lovely town of Farmville, Virginia), and I am a Sociology major with a double-minor in Women’s, Sexuality, and Gender Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies.

I grew up in an upper-middle class suburb just outside of Richmond, Virginia with one brother and two step-siblings (a sister and a brother) on a street where my divorced parents happily reside two houses apart from one another. I’m white, I’m cis, I’m queer, I’ve thru-hiked the Appalachian and Long Trails, and every day I try to make a little bit of progress towards my ultimate goal of becoming an active anti-racist change agent in my community.

This coming semester (the fall of 2024) I will have the privilege of participating in a comparative study abroad program with the School for International Training. This program focuses on human rights, and it aims to help students develop a deep, multilayered understanding of how communities and individuals are giving momentum to grassroots human rights movements across the countries of Nepal, Jordan, Chile, and America. Along with my peers, I will compare and contrast cross-cultural systems of government, social distributions of power, social divisions of labor, social hierarchies, the role and presence of welfare states, political freedom and oppression, definitions of human rights, and the emergence, progression, and goals of social movements.

So, why this program? Why choose to embark on this kind of social, physical, spiritual, and emotional journey? I think it’s really, really important for me to do this. Like, as important as it was for me to set out alone at 18 to walk 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine. Unlike my trek on the A.T, however, this program is about far more than personal ambition. In many ways, I view my participation in this opportunity as my first big step towards the rest of my life- after all, how can I possibly aspire to make the world more equal and just if I do not have a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing struggles for equality and justice that surround me on all sides, locally and globally?

I believe strongly that nothing on this planet happens within a vacuum, especially when it comes to protest, prejudice, and policy (and history has proven that to be true, time and time again). It’s important for me, as a born-with-a-silver-spoon-raised-in-a-liberal-echo-chamber-crunchy-granola-queer-feminist-American-college-student-with-big-dreams kind of gal to participate in this program so that I know how to listen to the voices of those whose lives are very different from my own, so that I know how to incorporate those voices into my current and future activism, and so that I can do more to change America to value humanity in all it’s forms.

If you’re interested in following my journey, this blog is where I’ll detail and reflect on my experiences, thoughts, questions, and ideas regarding human rights, social justice, power, and privilege as they arise during my time abroad. Please feel free to reach out if you have any feedback on the content I create- I am always open to having a discussion. Thanks for your time!

Here’s my Instagram handle for more pictures and updates: @a.sociologist.abroad

Here’s where you can learn more about the Appalachian Trail and long-distance hiking in America! : https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/hike-the-a-t/

SAVE THE DATE – AUGUST 15, 2024

CAFE, Civitae, Cormier Honors College, DEC, and the Preparing for Post Graduate Success Initiative invite you to Longwood’s second annual day of undergraduate faculty professional development–a day filled with several options and opportunities to collaborate with and learn from your faculty colleagues.

Civitae           
Engage with other Civitae faculty and find out what’s happening in your category and hear the Civitae faculty leaders share some assessment results. 

Preparing for Post Graduate Success Initiative
Design an advising syllabus.

DEC
Eat lunch and learn how your colleagues are using and navigating AI in the learning environment

The Cormier Honors College
Transform your existing courses into Honors courses.

CAFE
Participate in course and assignment design work sessions with consultants.

CLOSING RECEPTION
Kick off the semester and reconnect with colleagues at the faculty reception. 

Registration and program information are coming soon!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this post is worth nearly 100,000 words! (Maybe I should have been a photographer instead of a writer.)

Of course, there was a whole lot of studying going on this semester—but also a whole lot of fun. Take a stroll through this album of nearly 100 photos, and you’ll get a sense of what the lighter side of spring semester is like here at Longwood.

And, if you’re lucky, you’ll catch a glimpse of your Lancer living their best life.

—Sabrina Brown

Late-Night Breakfast

Faculty and staff serve up bacon, eggs and much more to help students fuel up for finals week.

Mosaic Multicultural Gala

This event celebrates Longwood’s diversity and culture.

CHI Burning

CHI is Longwood’s oldest service organization. At the CHI Burning, special commendations are given to students, organizations, faculty and staff who have made outstanding contributions of their time and talent.

Study Paws

A welcome break during the last week of classes comes in the form of four-legged critters, including a miniature horse.

Spring Weekend

Beautiful spring weather was the backdrop for an epic day of booths, bands and Oozeball.

Greek Sync

From the hits of the ’70s to house music of the 2010s, our Greeks know how to put on a show. Check out some of their moves at Greek Sync.

Solar Eclipse

The whole campus turned out to marvel at this rare event.

Ring Ceremony

Students and their families participate in a special ceremony where students receive their class rings.

The purpose of the project is to inform people on ways to deal with and help individuals who are dealing with elder and disabled persons self neglect. Self neglect is common in this demographic of individuals and we used this to show how to look at potential risk factors and other things which may effect these individuals. The target audience is the families of these individuals as well as the nurses taking care of them. I could have better improved some of the ways I explained the issues at hand but we did well on explaining risk factors which are felt with in these situations. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OjbHV-Sb9942c36XqAIhANB7JfTCMw3fagWTXQk68q0/edit?usp=sharing 

The key competencies which enhanced my learning were career and self development, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, professionalism, teamwork, and technology. I used this project to look at what I want my career to be and how I can deal with these issues in the future. This project as well helped me with thinking about things deeper than I normally would as well as looking at how to treat other individuals in these situations and including everyone. Professionalism, teamwork, and technology all work together in how I am going to use them in the future. Working with a team showed me how to properly do this as well as how to better use technology in these situations.

Welcome to my E-Portfolio! My name is Skylar Therres. I am currently a senior at Longwood University, majoring in Sociology with a concentration on Family Studies and minoring in Psychology and Criminal Justice. What do I plan on doing with my degree? I plan to go into Counseling for my future career. In my E-Portfolio, you will find work and research I’ve conducted thus far in my college career.

I participated in an adverse childhood experience training and am now certified in administering naloxone.

I knew this day would come, but it still hurts to say. Tomorow is my last day as an intern at Centra PACE. It’s been an incredible four months, and I have learned so much from every department there. I imagine saying goodbye to the participants will be especially difficult, even though I have told them in advance.

I would like to say thank you to the wonderful staff at Farmville PACE, who made me feel like a member of the team from the very beginning. I appreciate for taking my thoughts into consideration and helping me initiate my own goals with participants. I am especially grateful to my supervisors who empowered mean provided me with so much guidance. I think i am most grateful to the participants, who always kept my days interesting provided me with much needed experience. While I am sad to be leaving, I am also glad to have had this wonderful experience.

Back in March, I attended a luncheon held by the Social Work department. The luncheon was meant to show appreciation to internship supervisors of the juniors and senior level interns. A few people, myself included, gave speeches about our experiences so far. Our supervisors were so happy to hear praise from faculty members and their interns. It’s been a great experience working with PACE, and I hope my next internship will be just as rewarding.