Wed, 19 Dec 2007

Emerson College appoints new director to take it into the twenty-first century

FOREST ROW (NNA) – Emerson College, the international centre for adult education, has appointed a new director.

The appointment marks the culmination of a transformation process to make the college fit for the twenty-first century and give it renewed strength and focus (see NNA report, 30 July 2007).

Gregg Davis, who will start working half-time from mid-January until he moves fully into the post in August of next year, has just completed his tenure as executive director of Camphill Soltane and president of the Camphill Soltane Foundation in the United States.

In a statement released by Emerson’s board of trustees, the board said Davis had come with “the highest recommendations from colleagues and others able to observe the transformation and renewal he brought to the organisation.”

The decision to appoint him had been based on his “vision of organisations as fertile ground in making social, economic and ecological change for people and planet” and his commitment to and work on the basis of anthroposophy.

This development comes at an important time for Emerson and for anthroposophical work, the college said. Questions of a social, spiritual and ecological nature presented an increasing challenge today.

“We cannot lightly claim to have answers to them. But they certainly bring an urgent focus to many issues which have preoccupied anthroposophists for a century and which now demand our earnest engagement,” the statement said.

The history and location of Emerson College predisposed it to “pick up the gauntlet”. The time was now calling for greater vision and action.

“We have confidence that Gregg Davis has the ability and experience to enable Emerson to realise its future,” the statement concluded.

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Item: 071219-01EN Date: 19 December 2007

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