By Cass Rains, Staff Writer
Enid News and Eagle
ENID — Cherokee Strip Regional Her-itage Center’s Leadership Insti-tute is offering 20 state teachers a scholarship opportunity to enroll in the seminar this summer.
The four-day seminar will be taught by the center’s scholar-in-residence, Dr. J. Rufus Fears. The course will show teachers how leadership lessons from pioneers can be integrated into their curriculums.
“What we are offering is a full scholarship for teachers to come and spend four days with Dr. Fears, who will be teaching them to integrate those lessons of leadership into their curriculum, re-gardless of that subject they teach,” said center Inc., president Andi Holland.
The seminar is scheduled June 7-10, with classes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The scholarship is open to educators in a K-12 school system or those who have completed a bachelor’s degree in education in the past 18 months.
“We’re reaching out certainly to Enid because it is the home of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center,” Holland said. “We would love to see all the teachers be from the Cherokee Outlet, but it is open to teachers throughout the state.”
The scholarship includes lodging for those from out of town and a lunch for each day of the seminar. As well as the seminar, participants also will receive three hours of college credit for completion of the seminar.
The application deadline for the scholarship is May 10. Applications are available at Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, 507 S. 4th, in Enid, and also is available online at www.regionalheritagecen ter.org.
Fears holds the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. He also serves as David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Fears is a teacher and scholar who has won 25 awards for teaching excellence including the Medal for Excellence in College and Univer-sity Teaching from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, the University Continuing Education Association Great Plains Region Award for Excellence in Teaching and the UCEA’s National Award for Teaching Excellence.
Fears is the David Ross Boyd professor of classics at the University of Oklahoma and returns to Enid tonight to continue his popular lecture series, “Lessons of Leadership through the Great Books.”
The lecture at 7 p.m. at the Gantz Center at Northern Oklahoma College Enid will cover Machiavelli’s “The Prince” with the topic “What Happens when Your Nation’s Leader Loses His Moral Compass.”
Holland said Fears’ last lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Gantz Center and focus on Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” Prior to that lecture, the public has an opportunity to win a dinner with Fears at the center.
“Six lucky couples get to enjoy his company,” Holland said.
Chances for the 5 p.m. dinner are $10 and are available at the center. Winners of the dinner also will have reserved seating at that night’s lecture.
