Hope College Network
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Chile has truly fabulous pastry! They have a lot different cakes, because people love to eat sweets. As, I wrote in the post about Manjar, they put Manjar to a lot of their pastries. Here are some typical Chilean desert. Brazo de Reine It is the traditional Chilean desert or roll. Some people would say that it is the cousin of Swiss or Czech roll, but it is really not.
Higher Ed Talent
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
The following ten factors are critical approaches to remedying the underrepresentation of women and minority faculty and staff and creating more inclusive and diverse institutions. Hiring: efforts to increase the structural representation of female and minority faculty and staff. Promotion and advancement: promoting opportunities for diverse talent to flourish.
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Academic Librarian
MARCH 24, 2016
[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. I thought similar librarians might be interested in the research essay from an instructor’s perspective.]. A little bit about my background with writing instruction. I started teaching writing, or rhetoric as it’s called there, at the University of Illinois in 1992.
Terminalfour
DECEMBER 22, 2016
We look at some of our favorite 'Happy Holiday' videos from Universities and Colleges
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Most students’ host families lived in little houses, but there were some who lived in an apartment buildings, including myself. Most students, like 95% lived in these three neighborhoods: Providencia, Nunua or Las Condes. I lived in Nunoa, very close to Plaza de Nunua, which is the roughly the middle of Nunoa. Just so one can imagine, just Nunoa has over 100,000 people, so when I say neighborhood, I mean a neighborhood that takes 30-40 min to drive from south to north.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Everything great in life comes with sacrifices, and my study abroad is not an exception. Since I am an international student from the Czech Republic, I had mixed up all my flights, which resulted in extremely long journey home. I am very sure that I am not only one who has to travel 40 hours home. I fly from Santiago to Detroit via Atlanta and then from Grand Rapids to Prague via Chicago and London.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Have you ever saw the pictures? San Pedro de Atacama Valle de la Muerta ( Valley of the death) in San Pedro. Let me tell you something about it. This San Pedro, but most people imagine Atacama desert. This desert is the driest desert in the world. Atacama desert has not received a significant rain from 1570 to 1971. This is a good news because when you will be studying in Chile and you will visit it, you know you do not need raincoat.
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Hope College Network
DECEMBER 4, 2016
Valparaiso is a beautiful cost city in Chile only 1.5 hours from Santiago. It was founded in 1536 and it has roughly population of one million people. Valparaiso or Valpo is a very important strategic city in Chile because it has large seaport. Besides all these “boring” information, Valpo has an amazing view at the ocean, historic downtown, colorful buildings, is part of UNESCO World Heritage Site and Pablo Neruda has or had there one of his three houses.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 3, 2016
It is the highest building in South America and ironically it is located in Chile, a country with 500+ earthquakes a year. Costanera Center is truly an architecture beauty. Just look at it. Costanera Center is 980 ft. (300m) tall. Costanera Center or Grand Torre Santiago is used for two purposes: business and commercial purposes. It has a six-floor shopping mall, which, by the way, already had Christmas tree days before Thanksgiving, and view point on the top.
Hope College Network
DECEMBER 3, 2016
If you get the chance to travel to Santiago, you HAVE TO go to Emporio La Rosa ice cream place. It is a Chilean company and their ice-cream is ranked in the best 20 in the world. Their ice cream is phenomenal. They had around 40 different types of ice-cream and it was not too expensive as one would expect from place like that. Probably the flavor that surprised me the most in a good way was leché y arroz (milk and rice).
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
The annual Christmas Tree Lighting is one of my favorite Hope traditions. Everyone circles around a giant pine tree decorated with ornaments covered in our names. We count down from ten and, like magic, Christmas spirit skyrockets as the tree lights up the clearing. We sing Christmas carols and light candles, quietly laughing as we try to protect the flames from the winter wind.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Fondas, or Fiestas Patrias, is the most popular holiday in Chile because it celebrates the “birthday” of Chile. Yes, you probably imagine July 4th, but not exactly. Fondas or the celebrations last for whole two weeks, not only a day. Most, but not all, fondas take place at parks. It costs 5.000 Chilean Peso ($8 USD) to enter. The parks are truly huge, so just to imagine, it takes about 30 minutes to walk from the North to South.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
I have been talking only about Chile, Santiago, and all the culture related topics, but I have never mentioned the school or any of my classes or school. Last Tuesday, I have officially ended my semester in University of Chile in Faculdad de Economia y Negocios. University of Chile in Spanish Universidad de Chile was on November 19, 1842. It is the largest university in Chile.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
My next couple posts will be about our trip to Patagonia. Patagonia is very westernized and commercial term. When we spoke to the locals, they do not really recognize Patagonia, but here is the clarification from multiple points. What is Patagonia? When people, usually in Western World, talk or say they are going to Patagonia, they mean the region around Punta Arenas.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
The National Park of Chile in Chiloe is besides absolutely amazing nature and view, is also very well known for extreme weather conditions. Actually their conditions are so extreme that brands like Patagonia and North Face are testing their new gear here, before they start to sell it. These are the pictures from the park during a beautiful weather. but with our luck, we get to experience why North Face and Patagonia tests their gear here.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Castro is the capital of the Chiloé Province in the Los Lagos Region and the largest city in Island. The city is about 165.1 sq. miles and it has population of 41,667 based on 2012 census. It was established in 1567 and is the third oldest city in whole Chile. The city is interesting because of those few sights: The Regional Museum of Castro, Plaza de Armas with Gamboa (church) or Nuestra Senora de Gracia, which is a churched built in 1886 and is protected by UNESCO.
Hope College Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Besides visiting Chiloé’s biggest attractions like city Castro, Museums, UNESCO churches or National Park, we did a volunteer work as well. We were painting classrooms in local elementary school. The day started very early in the morning because we had drove to the school. When we arrived to school, we lined up and introduced ourselves and the states we are from.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 30, 2016
As I pass the midway point of my semester here in Chicago (still in shock that it’s over halfway done!) my roommate and I have sort of realized it’s been a while since we had a “normal” weekend. What I mean by that is basically that the last 4-5 weekends I’ve either gone out of town (I went to Philly and back to Hope for homecoming), had friends visiting, or was deathly ill with the flu.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 13, 2016
There are eighteen days until Halloween. Therefore, I am sure you are looking for some autumnal activities to make you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside as the temperature gets chilly outside. In no particular order, here are five of my favorite things to do in the fall as a Hope student. 1. Apple Picking Going apple picking is a thing in my hometown, but not nearly on the level that it is here.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
As I said in the previous post, one of the greatest arts attraction in Santiago is house of Pablo Neruda. I personally visited with the organization that I am studying in Santiago and I thought that it was enough interesting to write a post. Pablo Neruda, officially named Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, was a Chilean diplomat and poet. He was born on July 12, 1904, in the city called Parral and died in the capital of Chile, Santiago.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Until I was 15 years old I lived in the Czech Republic, a country that in my opinion is still recovering from communistic regime. Since I was 15 years I have lived in the United States, a country that has never experienced communism. Actually on the contrary, United States were based on idea capitalist system, which probably cannot be more apart from communism or socialism.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Santiago as a city is absolutely beautiful. The city is illustrates long history, modern world, nature, parks, sports or arts. Santiago is very historic city. It was found in 1541 by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. Without any knowledge of orientation is he founded Santago right in the middle of future Chile. In the beginning the original Santiago was build like a Chessboard, which is very interesting.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
There are a lot of street dogs in Santiago. In the beginning, I took a tour and they were talking about street dogs. Usually, they are on the street for two reasons – one is sad, and one happy. Let me start with the sad one, which is the least likely scenario. People buy a little puppy. From a puppy becomes a dog and is too big or as the tour guide said, not as cute, so people just kick the dog out of the streets.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Like Canada is run by ice hockey, Chile is run by football, or like Americans would say, soccer. To future references, when I am saying football, I mean soccer, not American football. In Chile everyone watches football, especially when the national team plays. You enter a restaurant or sports bar, there is some kind of football playing. When we wanted watch the fight between McGregor vs.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 10, 2016
As a Magnificent Mile intern I get access to some pretty cool opportunities. We have monthly membership events at various members venues, for instance, last month we had a membership event at Lou Malnati’s where we were able to network with prominent Michigan Avenue business while eating pizza and tiramisu. Not a bad deal! Another really cool aspect of the job is the intern project called “My Day on the Mile” The project allows each intern to chose six members to visit and expe
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 7, 2016
For the last few days the internet was off in my apartment building, which is the reason for 10 posts today, but also a realization of how much we are depended on internet connection. This is my current position compare to rest of the world. Internet is the only way for people in Santiago to know about what is happening in the world. If internet does not work in Santiago, I and rest of us have no clue what is happening in rest of the world.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 7, 2016
I was lucky enough to find an internship while studying abroad. I found out about a company called Planet Expat , which is a headhunter company that works with startups mainly in United States and Europe. They do some other things, like coaching program, but matching students with internships abroad is their main focus. Planet Expat. I worked at Planet Expat for six weeks and besides business development, broadcasting work, I write an article about the benefits on studying abroad to one’s profes
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Scenery of Prague: River Vltava and National Theater (building on the left with the with the lights around) Most things in life can be translated into numbers and college is no exception. An academic year in college is around 250 days and if we multiply this number by four, the average length of a U.S. bachelor’s degree, we get 1000 days allocated to our collegiate career.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 7, 2016
In the U.S. people eat burgers and hot dogs, in Chile people eat empanadas. Empanadas are very popular, cheap, and delicious. I do not think that in U.S. we have something, so similar to empanadas , like dulce de leche to m anjar (only in Chile). Probably the closest thing would Calzone Pizza, but I do not like to use word close, because they are not close at all.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Hello Readers! I hope you all have been doing well and aren’t too overwhelmed this week before Fall Break begins! Have you been busy? Overwhelmed? A little bit of both? I know I have. Maybe one of the reasons you (as well as myself) are busy or overwhelmed is because of Nykerk season. For those of you that don’t know what Nykerk is, I will explain.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Working from home. The dream, right? No commute. No long drives to the office. No early-morning wake-up calls. No cubicle, no boss hovering over your shoulder, but definitely a cup of coffee in hand, sweatpants, no shoes, curled up in a blanket. Or, short of that, holed up in the corner of a cute little coffee shop with a laptop and some good tunes on repeat.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 4, 2016
Five weeks into the semester and the number on everyone’s mind is three : Three days stand between Hope students and a long awaited Fall Break. It’s that time of the school year when papers are due, group projects are in progress, and work is piling up. I know I find it too easy to get off track from where I should be focused and let my time be consumed by work, mindless distraction, and sleep.
Hope College Network
OCTOBER 2, 2016
As much as I love my dear Chicago, I said goodbye this weekend and headed out to check out the hype behind all that brotherly love, aka, Philadelphia. My roommate for the past three years is doing a similar program to The Chicago Semester but based out of Philly, called The Philadelphia Center. So, this weekend I made my way east to pay her a visit!
Hope College Network
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
This blog post is about to be majorly overdramatic. It all started when I was just a wee young lass. My grandma is a big coffee drinker and my grandpa loved his gas station cappuccinos. They live across town from the house I grew up in, and they’re totally the kind of grandparents who love to give their grandkids “treats.” I’m pretty sure we were all raised on caffeine.
Hope College Network
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
Working 9-5 almost every day definitely has made me appreciate weekends even more and especially being in the city there’s a lot of pressure to be out and doing fun things all the time. So this past weekend my roommate, Dori, and I decided we were going to make the most of our Saturday and headed out for a very full day. Our first stop was Elly’s Pancake House.
Hope College Network
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Hello Readers! Hope your week is going well, I know mine is off to a crazy start! School is going well. I’m busy, involved, and loving every second of this intense semester, but one of the things I didn’t expect to love so much is the classwork (crazy, I know, since the sole reason I’m here at Hope is to do be educated.) One of the classes I’m in this semester that I’ve found I love is my Senior Seminar.
Hope College Network
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
This fall semester of 2016, I picked to study abroad in Santiago, Chile, and so far it has been an unforgettable experience. Over the period of weeks that I am have been in Santiago, I have experienced a lot of positive, fun, and negative things, which are part of the living in a country with completely different culture, values, and mentality. Chile has been an amazing and highly valuable experience with full of ups and downs.
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