{"id":68117,"date":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/woman-returns-to-school-after-attending-uri-colloquium\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"woman-returns-to-school-after-attending-uri-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/04\/woman-returns-to-school-after-attending-uri-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman returns to school after attending 溏心vlog免费B站 colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 23, 2007 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 sophomore Gail Harvey is not your typical student. As a 62-year-old grandmother of six from Cranston, Harvey did something most people would never dream of. She quit her job and went back to school. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cIn early November of 2006, I decided to quit a job that had become toxic and go back to school,\u201d said Harvey, who wrote promotional material for an engineering firm. \u201cI can\u2019t help but think the \u201cSongs of Social Justice\u201d Honors Colloquium was the engine for this decision. I had thought about going back to school for a degree but had never really committed to the idea until I attended the colloquium.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe \u201cSongs of Social Justice: Rhetoric of Music\u201d honors colloquium, held in the fall of 2006, explored how music had been \u2013and continues to be\u2014a constant refrain in shaping the political and social experience.

\nHarvey\u2019s sister-in-law and brother-in-law knew she was a fan of musicians Buffy Saint-Marie and Tom Paxton and told her that the two performers were part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s semester-long series. <\/p>\n


\nAfter attending the first performance by legendary rapper Chuck D., Harvey remembers turning to her sister-in-law and saying that she really wanted to go back to school and study history. Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, another speaker, further stirred her love of history.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis feeling of wanting to go back to school grew with every session I attended,\u201d said Harvey. \u201cAfter I left the auditorium each week I became more energized and angry about the war and wondering what exactly I could do. The performances of Tom Paxton and Buffy Saint-Marie made me realize that change starts with small steps. I couldn\u2019t change the world but I could change how the rest of my life was going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nA native of New York City, Harvey attended the University of Denver in the mid-60\u2019s, majoring in history and English. She had to drop out after two years when her father became ill, never finishing her degree. <\/p>\n


\nHarvey had other motivations to go back to school. \u201cI wanted to be an example to my grandchildren and to teach them that you can do anything at any age and that the most important part of life is to be involved with your world,\u201d she said.

\n\u201cI want the validation of having a degree,\u201d added Harvey who is currently taking classes at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Feinstein College of Continuing Education. \u201cI have been kept back in jobs because I didn\u2019t have one and now I\u2019d like to see what it actually does for you in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAfter graduating from 溏心vlog免费B站, Harvey, who has always served her community volunteering and fundraising, would like to work in the political arena where she feels people can really make a difference. \u201cI fear we are a nation that has forgotten its history and we are always looking for the most comfortable solution to the nation\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHarvey plans to attend next year\u2019s colloquium. \u201cLife before the colloquium was fine, but life now is like a kaleidoscope of colors. I wake up every morning energized and thankful I am doing something for myself. I never realized when I was younger how much education means and how exciting it can be. There is no doubt in my mind that without the \u201cSongs of Social Justice\u201d colloquium I would not be a sophomore at 溏心vlog免费B站.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Michael Salerno Photograhy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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