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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The University of Pennsylvania announced on October 29 the appointment of two directors of the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Paideia Program.
The SNF Paideia Program, which draws on ancient Greek inspiration in its mission to educate Penn students as whole people and as citizens with support from a $6 million SNF grant, was announced in spring 2019. In this first year of a five-year pilot, the program will take shape under the leadership of an Executive Director and a Faculty Director, before officially launching this coming spring.
Professor Michael X. Delli Carpini, former Dean of Penn’s Annenberg School for Communications from 2003 to 2018, will be the inaugural Faculty Director of the SNF Paideia Program. His work in communication and political science has focused on areas including the role of new media in citizens’ participation in political life.
Dr. Leah Seppanen Anderson, currently Associate Director of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship at Princeton University, will be the SNF Paideia Program’s inaugural Executive Director. She helped start Princeton’s signature service-learning program and holds a PhD in Political Science.
Describing the SNF Paideia Program’s mission, Penn President Amy Gutmann said in the University’s announcement that “there’s no one better suited to lead this effort than Michael Delli Carpini, himself a consummate Penn citizen and renowned scholar and teacher of public deliberation. With our new executive director, Leah Anderson, Michael will help Penn realize Paideia’s vision of educating young people to realize their potential as active and engaged members of society. We are enormously grateful to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for their support of this transformative and exciting initiative, and to Michael for his excellent work in building this nascent program. We look forward to formally launching Paideia this spring.”
The SNF Paideia Program is designed to engage a significant proportion of Penn’s 10,000 undergraduate students, curating academic offerings, hosting public events, connecting existing organizations at Penn and beyond, and incubating a cohort of student-leaders.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON, UK – Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark is set to marry her lawyer fiancé this fall in Athens, according to media reports – “after the couple previously postponed their wedding date twice,” Tatler reported, noting that Theodora, “who was born in London, started dating Matthew Kumar in 2016, with the couple announcing their engagement in November 2018.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.