Students browse through the tables of information about study abroad opportunities during the Study Abroad Fair Thursday, November 10, at Tusculum College. Held in the Living Room of the Niswonger Commons, the fair provided students the opportunity to learn about international study programs. Displays at the fair included those by Academic Programs International, American Institute for Foreign Studies, International Studies Abroad and Knowledge Exchange Institute. The event was sponsored by the College’s Study Abroad and Global Awareness Club, the Center for Global Studies and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Experiencing a different culture, interacting with other college students from a variety of backgrounds and discussing global issues helped make traveling to Salzburg, Austria, a life-changing trip for three Tusculum College students.

Mitchell Taylor, Sam Underwood and Altoine Wilson attended the Salzburg Global Seminar as representatives of Tusculum in January. All three students, who were selected for the seminar based on nominations from faculty, are sophomores. Taylor, from Kodak, Tenn., and Sam Underwood, from Muncie, Ind., are business majors. Wilson, who is from Covington, Ga., is a film and broadcasting major. The session that the Tusculum students attended was the “Mellon Fellow Community Initiative Student Seminar on Global Citizenship: America and the World.”

In a presentation about their trip on Monday, March 28, Underwood encouraged her fellow students to travel internationally if they get the opportunity. “After this trip, we were truly changed people,” she said. “It changes your mindset.”

While the seminar is designed to introduce a variety of viewpoints to its participants and broaden their perspectives, Underwood noted international travel for pleasure can also have a changing affect in immersing individuals into different cultures.

Wilson said the three “didn’t really know what to expect. I thought it would be a chance of a lifetime and it was.” It was the first time for travel outside of the country for Wilson and Underwood. Taylor had taken an earlier trip to South America.

The trip was focused on learning, Wilson said, and the participants addressed many controversial subjects, as well as how Americans view the rest of the world and how the rest of the world views the United States. The students described one activity in which they acted out Plato’s allegory of a cave to illustrate how people sometimes live in a bubble and how painful it can be to be forced out of that comfort zone to look at what is happening in the world.

Taylor said that one of the most important opportunities of the trip was getting to know and make friends with the other seminar participants who came from a variety of backgrounds. Participants came from a number of Appalachian region colleges as well as universities across the nation.

“I was impressed by others’ passion for various issues and their desire to make a difference in the world,” he said.

The Salzburg Global Seminars are held at the Schloss Leopoldskron, a regal, 18th century castle surrounded by immaculate grounds with breathtaking views of the adjoining lake and the Alps.

“Our living conditions were really nice,” Taylor said. “The whole place was very beautiful.” The students’ living quarters were at the Meierhof, about 200 yards from Schloss Leopoldskron. There, students had access to a computer library, where they could stay in touch with their families, and a lounge area where seminar participants could relax at the end of the day.

The students took many photos of the palace’s ornate architectural features and the gardens and sculptures surrounding the palace. After the seminar sessions, students would gather for continuing discussion of issues raised in various rooms in the palace, Taylor said.

The Austrian cuisine served at the Schloss Leopoldskron reflected the surroundings. “There was amazing food at the Schloss,” Underwood said. “We were fed like royalty.”

Austrian food was similar to German cuisine, she continued, and all their meals featured quality meats and fresh vegetables. “All of the food seemed healthier and tasted better.”

Although most of the students’ time was spent at the seminar, the participants took a day trip to the Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany, touring what remains of the camp and visiting the museum and memorial at the site. “I can’t describe in words what it felt like,” Underwood said.

Seminar participants also had a couple days to explore Salzburg. In the older part of the town, “there was a ton of beautiful Gothic architecture,” Taylor said. “We also saw lots of street performers, but they weren’t like the guitarists you see on streets here. They were playing the harp and violin.”

Tusculum is currently planning international trips for the upcoming 2011-12 academic year. The current academic year has been the best for the college for international study as more students have participated in short-term study abroad trips than ever before, said Dr. Geir Bergvin, director of the Tusculum’s Center for Global Studies. Students have recently returned from trips to Central America and Europe.

The Reformation and the Renaissance became more than concepts in a textbook for a group of Tusculum College students who discovered the art and architecture of the periods in a recent trip to Italy and Germany.

The group of Tusculum students were primarily students in a “Cultural and Literary Heritage of the West” course that includes study of the Reformation and Renaissance. The students shared their experiences on the March trip during a presentation April 18.

“It is amazing for the students to see in person what they would later be seeing in the textbook,” said Dr. Nancy Thomas, associate professor of English, one of the professors that accompanied the students and teaches the Humanities course.

As an instructor, the trip also had benefits, Thomas said. The Reformation and Martin Luther are two of the significant topics covered in the Humanities course, she noted. “Going to Germany, seeing the places he had been and going to his museum fleshed him out. He is real to me now.”

Dr. Joel Van Amberg, assistant professor of history who also accompanied the students, encouraged those at the presentation to travel abroad. “You will learn things you didn’t anticipate and be stretched in ways that you did not expect,” he said. “The unexpected is the most exciting thing of foreign travel, the broad range of experiences you get when you go abroad.”

The trip began in Rome, where the students visited such sites as the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Pantheon and the Circus Maximus. “The most amazing part of Rome is the architecture,” said Marcus Taylor, an English major from Kodak, Tenn. “You can’t imagine what it is like until you are actually there.”

At the museum at the Vatican, the students were able to see masterpieces of the art in various forms. “One of the things that amazed me was the tapestries, the sheer magnitude of them,” said Ben Sneyd, an English major from Unicoi, Tenn. “You can look at them in a book, but you will never understand about the size or magnitude and never really see the detail and understand the work that must have gone into them until you see them.”

The students’ next destination was Florence, where they continued to explore the art and architecture of the Renaissance. One of the sites they noted was the Florence Baptistry where the saw Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, two solid bronze doors containing panels with intricately designed illustrations of events from the Old Testament.

Traveling on an overnight train, the students headed to Germany and Wittenberg, which was very different than what they had experienced in Italy. “Rome and Florence were big cities and then we get off the train in Germany at a stop with just some gravel and a bench,” said William Hogg, a political science major from Pikeville, Ky. “Wittenberg was a very quaint town.”

The students noted that Germany was cleaner than the Italian cites and the people were more friendly.

In visiting the various sites related to Martin Luther, Isiah Lyman said they were able to see how he grew as a person through the various stages of his life.

While in Germany, the students also visited Coburg where they able to visit a castle. “It was amazing to see a castle up close and see the way it looked,” said Lyman, a history major from Boiling Springs, S.C.

One of the rooms in the castle had a display of weapons with a wide variety of swords and the cannons and ammunition used to defend the castle walls, said Codie Fleming, a political science major from Washington, Ga.

Dr. Thomas, Dr. Van Amberg and the students expressed their appreciation for those who had made the trip possible at the college and the travel professionals who found them clean and comfortable youth hostels to stay in along the journey.

International trips are in the planning stages for the next academic year, said Dr. Geir Bergvin, director of Tusculum’s Center for Global Studies. Planned are trips to Ecuador and Spain, a fall trip to London and service-learning trip to Belize.

Six students from Tusculum College recently explored the culture, natural diversity and educational system of Belize.

Four biology students and two education students traveled to the region around San Ignacio in Belize during March to immerse themselves in the diverse culture and natural environment of the Central American nation.

“Sometimes you go with a plan, but it doesn’t go that way and sometimes it is way better than you planned,” said Rebecca Hunley, one of the education students. “This trip was like that.”

Hunley, who is in the master’s degree program at Tusculum, worked at the Bullet Tree Primary School with teachers and administrators. “The school was in the middle of nowhere,” she recalled during a presentation about the trip. “There were no lights in the classroom.”

Students were packed into the classrooms and there was a lack of basic resources, she said, but the school had been able to create a small computer lab.

It was in the computer lab one day that she had an unexpected reminder of home. Going into the lab, she was surprised to see the teacher there instructing the students about low and high tides using her district’s website.

Hunley is a biology teacher in the Jefferson City School System. “Our district’s website is known nationally, but I did not know it was known internationally.”

During her presentation, Hunley noted that the educational system is very different in Belize than in the United States. Students must pay some fees to attend primary school for supplies, she explained. However, to attend school past the primary level, students must pay tuition of $1,500 a year, which many families cannot afford.

If a child cannot continue their education, they enter the workforce, she said.

As a biology teacher, Hunley said she received an additional benefit as she accompanied the biology students on some of their activities.

The four biology students, accompanied by Dr. Greg Church, associate professor of biology, explored a variety of habitats while in Belize.

The group also visited a Mayan temple ruin. “We were driving in the city,” said Morgan Baese, of Chattanooga, said, “and all of the sudden we turned onto a road that looked like we were entering a forest and it was right there.”

The students visited the Iguana Conservation Project, in which they were able to learn more about the species, handle some of the lizards and closely view some of the exotic bird species that live in Belize.

How close they were able to get to the animals was also surprising during the students visit to the Belize Zoo, said Ben Hale of Morristown. The animals were used to people and would come up to the fence of their enclosures, he said, adding that the students got to go into some of the bird habitats.

Visiting the Belize Botanical Gardens, the students explored the lush vegetation that grows in the country and also tried many of the different type of fruits that grow there.

The students spent two days caving, which included exploring the beautiful rock formations inside St. Herman’s Cave, which is part of the Blue Hole National Park, and learned about ecology of life along the river during a long kayaking trip.

In the evenings, the students immersed themselves in the culture of Belize. They attended a local fair, tried local cuisine and saw a performance of Garifuna drummers.

Tusculum’s Center for Global Studies is planning international study trips for the next academic year, which includes a possible trip by a service-learning class to Belize.

Students browse through the tables of information about study abroad opportunities during the Study Abroad Fair Tuesday at Tusculum College. Held in the Living Room of the Niswonger Commons, the fair provided students the opportunity to meet with representatives from Academic Programs International, American Institute for Foreign Study, International Studies Abroad, Knowledge Exchange Institute, Semester at Sea and Veritas Study Abroad. In addition, information from 10 well-known study abroad companies who offer study abroad travel experiences to more than 50 different countries were available. Students also had the opportunity to learn about Tusculum’s London study abroad program from program director Dr. John Paulling, professor of mathematics; about the College’s Study Abroad and Global Awareness (SAGA) Club and about financing a studying abroad experience. The event was sponsored by the Center for Global Studies, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the SAGA Club.

A new program developed by the Tusculum College Center for Global Studies has resulted in the creation of a global classroom for discussing global business issues with other college students from around the world.

“The new program is based on the technology that Tusculum College has invested in that allows us to link up to classrooms across the globe for one coordinated classroom discussion,” said Dr. Geir Bergvin, director of the Center for Global Studies and associate professor of marketing at Tusculum College.

Along with Tusculum’s technology, a partnership with the Greeneville City Schools that allows for other universities across the world to link with Tusculum has provided a unique opportunity on campus to participate in worldwide interactive discussions and other shared classroom activities, according to B.J. Roberts, instructional technology specialist at the College.

“To begin the program we have coordinated with the college’s Business Club, the Study Abroad and Global Awareness organization, as well as other interested students,” said Bergvin.  Also working with the students in a mentoring capacity is Dr. Tom McFarland, director of the college’s School of Business, associate professor of business administration and advisor for the Business Club.

In the first session, the connection was made to HIH University in Harstad, Norway, and included students from that university who were studying abroad from several countries, including Ghana, France, Germany and China. Students from Tusculum College also included study abroad students from Chile and Venezuela.

During the second session, held on Monday, December 6, the videoconference classroom was expanded further, with four classrooms connecting: Tusculum College, with 10 students participating; Norway, with 11 students participating; Russia with 12 students participating and Ghana with 10 students participating.

The second session focused on the role of energy in the global environment, with students led by faculty moderators at each site. The four groups held an open dialogue regarding issues such as standardization of environmental policies and laws, as well as the economic drivers that affect the economic policies of individual countries.

According to Bergvin, each group of students was able to speak and interact as part of a group discussion based on previous work and an international dialogue was able to occur. The class, despite the varied locations, operated like a discussion group in a regular classroom setting.

“This has been a good first step,” said Bergvin, who hopes to continue the video conference discussions, as well as expand the program to use for other classroom and community purposes.

“Being in the United States, I have seen how much easier it is to have a global viewpoint,” said Luis Zamora, a Tusculum College sophomore international student majoring in management and economics. Zamora was born in Germany and later moved to Chile. “Being a multicultural country helps with global competencies.”

Added McFarland, “For all of us who participated, it has been an exercise in becoming more globally competent, and we want to continue to advance the understanding of the world’s cultures and encourage more active dialogues like we have had here.”

Several more sessions are planned for the spring semester, and as the program develops, Bergvin and McFarland said they would like to be able to expand the number of students who are able to participate.

Anyone interested in more information on the program or who would like to find out about Tusculum College’s Center for Global Studies should contact Bergvin at 423-636-7300.

Three students from Tusculum College will be heading to Salzburg, Austria, just after the first of the year to participate in the Mellon Fellow Community Initiative Student Session on Global Citizenship, part of the Salzburg Seminar program.

Sam Underwood, a sophomore business major from Muncie, Ind., Mitchell Taylor, a sophomore business major from Kodak, Tenn., and Altoine Wilson, a sophomore broadcasting major from Covington, Ga., will head to Austria on January 2 as Tusculum College’s representatives for the program.

The three were nominated by members of the faculty and then selected and approved by the Advisory Council of the Center for Global Studies. “We are pleased to have three such outstanding students who will represent the college well,” said Dr. Geir Bergvin, director of the college’s Center for Global Studies and associate professor of marketing.

Because the college has participated in the Salzburg Seminar program for the past two years while working to expand the global studies program at Tusculum College, the institution was given the opportunity to send student participants to the session being held this January. Students will be gone from January 3-10, returning back just in time to begin the spring semester at Tusculum.

The Mellon Fellow Community Initiative Student Session provides an intensive international experience for participants to explore issues of worldwide concern and to view them from a perspective both literally and figuratively outside the borders of the United States. Students will be helped to develop the tools to be more discerning in their assessment of information pertaining to world affairs and to understand what it means to be a “global citizen.”

And, with the exception of Taylor who has been out of the country on a trip to Nicaragua, this will be a first-time global experience for the others.

“I think it will be a great experience to advance our global awareness and come up with ways to get Tusculum more globalized,” said Underwood.

Taylor added, “We are expecting to learn a lot, and I’m looking forward to the small group sessions and participating with students from other colleges.”

Each of the students also received a $500 travel scholarship to help with expenses that they incur on their trip.

And while they will be working and learning, there are also excursions planned and several opportunities for them to learn more about Salzburg and its culture.

“I’m looking for a culture explosion,” said Wilson. “It will be a real experience to see a whole other nation and way of life.”

According to Bergvin, in addition to participating in the program, the three students will be preparing a presentation to share with the campus community upon their return.

Anyone interested in more information on the Salzburg Seminar program or who would like to find out about Tusculum College’s Center for Global Studies should contact Bergvin at 423-636-7300.

The Study Abroad Club held an organizational meeting on Wednesday, September 29, to bring together students who are interested in travel and study abroad opportunities. The meeting was led by Dr. Geir Bergvin, director of the Center for Global Studies, who will serve as the advisor to the group.

“Slowly but surely we are getting more students interested and offering then more opportunities to study abroad,” said Bergvin.

The organizational mission of the group is to increase interest in the study abroad programs and to have the club members promote study abroad opportunities to others on campus.

Also present were Dr. Tom McFarland, associate professor of business administration and also a member of the Center for Global Studies Advisory Council, and Bonnie Weston, representing student affairs.

Bergvin, explained the program and the government structure of the Global Studies Program, as well as possible programming and event opportunities the students could be involved with in this academic year.

Officers were elected and include co-presidents Andrew Baker, a sophomore majoring in creative writing and planning a trip to Australia this year; and Luis Zamora, an international student majoring in management and economics. Zamora was born in Germany and later moved to Chile.

“This is my study abroad program, and I have realized it opens your mind immensely,” said Zamora. Baker said that while he is very excited about his own upcoming study abroad opportunity, his main goal is to promote study abroad in the overall Tusculum community.

Bergvin told the students, “You have an opportunity to build an organization from scratch and motivate other students to get involved by spreading the value and interest of study broad and encouraging others to get involved.”

For more information on the Study Abroad Club or the Center for Global Studies, contact Bergvin at Ext. 5012, email at gbergvin@tusculum.edu or by stopping by the Center for Global Studies Office in the Pilloni Office, Room 121 in the Thomas J. Garland Library.

Walking in the footsteps - or in some cases hiking in the footsteps - of 19^th century British romantic poets brought the era to life for seven Tusculum College students and their professor on a recent trip to London, England.

The students were part of Dr. Sheila Morton’s “19^th Century British Literature” course and spent March 23 through April 1 in London and surrounding areas studying British 19^th century romantic poets. Morton is assistant professor of English at the college.

For 10 days the students took in the sites of the “hub of 19^th Century British poetry,” including visiting the homes of William Wadsworth, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge and John Keats. The group lived and studied in the Lake District, which is in itself a history museum of the poets the group studied, according to Morton.

“The Lake District was quite influential on all the poets and was often almost a character in the poems, so strong was the influence,” she said.

In addition to those whose homes they visited, Lord George Gordon Byron also spent time there and the group visited his home there and his grave site.

Morton also led the students on several day hikes in the areas where Keats was recorded to have hiked.  In his lifetime he recorded more than 600 miles, using the images from those hikes as inspiration for many of his poems.

In addition, to daily readings and taking in the sites, the students also recorded their experiences in reflection journals each day and expressed what they could see themselves in the environment that could inspire such long-lasting poetic works of art.

“We were also able to attend a lecture and a reading by a local poet,” Morton said, “and he focused on how place and connection to place gives birth to great poetry.”

Students who participated included Sabine Azimar and Lelia Heinbach of Greeneville; Danielle Armstrong of Blountville; Joshua Kibert of Speedwell; Brianna Cox of Madison, Ala.; Kenneth Hill of White Pine; and Abby Wolfenberger of New Market.

Morton and the students all felt the trip was a true immersion experience, and Morton is ready to have another opportunity.

“The learning experience was invaluable. It was educational and life experience combined. Of all the classes they have had at Tusculum, this will be one that they remember.”

Tusculum College, the oldest college in Tennessee and the 28th oldest in the nation, is a civic arts institution committed to developing educated citizens distinguished by academic excellence, public service and qualities of Judeo-Christian character. About twenty-one hundred students are enrolled on the main campus in Greeneville, the campus in Knoxville, Tenn., and two additional off-site locations in Morristown and Gray, Tenn. The academic programs for both traditional-aged students and working adults served through the Graduate and Professional Studies program are delivered using focused calendars whereby students enroll in one course at a time.

A Tusculum College vice president and professor brought back new insights about the Holy Land from a recent trip to the Middle East as well as ideas of how similar trips can be planned for Tusculum students in the future.

Jacquelyn D. Elliott, vice president for enrollment management, and Dr. Angela Keaton, assistant professor of history and the commons, spent three and a half weeks earlier this year in Israel and Jordan visiting Biblical, historical and religious sites, such as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem and Petra in Jordan. The two gave a presentation about their trip on March 24.

The two were “podded” with a class from Bridgewater College during the trip. Elliott explained that “podding” is a new concept whereby faculty or staff from a college or university participate in an international trip of another institution to learn about the logistics of planning such a trip and how it can be integrated academically into a course or program.

Elliott, who previously worked at Bridgewater College, said that college’s chaplain contacted her about the trip because it seemed to fit Tusculum’s curriculum and mission.

During the trip, Elliott and Keaton did the same coursework as the 15 students in the Bridgewater class, completing daily readings from the Bible and other texts as well as written assignments and journaling.

The trip’s fast-paced itinerary, which included as many as five sites a day, featured many of the sites in the Holy Land associated with Jesus’ life and ministry.

Visiting the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, the group was also able to see the remains of a home from the 1st Century recently discovered by archeologists. “We were very lucky to have a glimpse of it,” Elliott said.

The Church of the Annunciation, built on the alleged location where Gabriel appeared to Mary, is representative of many of the sites in the Holy Land whose claim to be a Biblically related site cannot be positively verified, Keaton explained.

The church is also representative in that it marks a notable Biblical site. “You know you have found a significant site if there is a church built on top of it,” Keaton said. “Churches were built on everything whether the site was legitimate or not.”

One of the legitimate sites that the group visited was the House of St. Peter, a church built over what is believed to be the dwelling of the apostle. Archeologists consider this a legitimate site, Keaton explained, because the house dates back to the 1st century, fish hooks were found and graffiti had been written on the walls indicating that Jesus had been there.

During the trip, Elliott and Keaton said they discovered that some of the common western perceptions of Bible stories differ from what conditions were like in Jesus’ time. For example, Elliott said, there is common perception that Mary and Joseph were alone when Jesus was born, but in the Jewish culture of the time, they were probably surrounded by people to help, especially since many others would have returned to Bethlehem for the census.

The class crossed over into Jordan for a few days. They visited the Jordan River, which now flows at about 10 percent of what it did in Jesus’ time, Keaton noted. One of several small lagoons off the main flow of the river was probably the location of Jesus’ baptism by John, she added.

In visiting Jordan, Elliott said they noted the difference in resources between that nation and Israel to preserve and maintain the historical sites. In visiting Jericho, the ancient remains are “literally melting” because they are made of mud-brick, Keaton added. The city of Petra, another popular site for tourists, is also suffering a similar fate as it is slowly eroding from the elements.

In addition to the fast-paced itinerary, it was also a challenge to keep names straight. “Everything there has multiple names,” Elliott explained. But, there was not a language barrier, she continued, as all signs were written in English, Arabic and Hebrew.

Jerusalem presented a challenge as well. “One of the most difficult things was keeping the chronology straight,” Keaton said. “You have the Canaanites, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Israelis, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Arabs again, Turks, British, Jordanians and then modern Israel all stacked on top of each other.”

In Jerusalem, Elliott and Keaton spent time in the Arab market, Jewish quarter and Armenian quarter. During their free time, the two had the opportunity to talk to people in the different areas, all of whom were warm and open.

While in Palestinian-controlled areas, Elliott recalled, she asked some direct questions about what the people there thought about America. “They said they loved Americans, but were not quite as sure about the American government,” she said. Keaton added that in Jerusalem they were told by people that they “wished that Americans were not so shallow – that they would read a book now and then.”

Visiting the Mount of Olives, the class discovered that adjacent to an Arab settlement, but Elliott and Keaton noted that in walking the streets in the settlement, called Silwan Village, they encountered no problems and that the people groups are not as separated as a westerner might perceive from watching media reports.

The Church of All Nations is built adjacent to the Garden of Gethsemane on the rock on which Jesus prayed. It is believed that Jesus most likely was in the garden there, Keaton said, because of the age of the olive trees around the church. The olive trees are old enough to be from the 1st Century and are the only ones of age preserved in the garden, she further explained.

The class also visited the Temple Mount, regarded as one of the most holy sites in Jerusalem by both Jews and Muslims. The Temple Mount is revered by Jews as the location of Solomon’s temple and later Herod’s temple. It is now the site of two mosques, the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque, and is considered the third holiest site in Islam.

The class was not permitted to go into either mosque. “The only Christian to go into the Dome of the Rock was the individual who did the tile work,” Elliott noted.

The group visited the Wailing Wall, the western wall of the Temple Mount. “It was one of my favorite places,” Keaton said. “It is important to Jews because the wall was the closest to the Holiest of Holies in the temple. The Jews believe that it is as close as they can get to the Holiest of Holies.”

The group waited in line for 15 minutes to approach the wall. “You could literally feel the movement and rhythm from the sound of all the people praying,” Elliott said. “It was a very interesting experience to see how dedicated they are to prayer.”

Asked about the mix of the old world and modern, Keaton said conditions depended on where you were – the group encountered everything from Bedouin camps to skyscrapers. “At one point, we saw a Bedouin boy riding a donkey with an iPod,” she said. “Everybody had cell phones. In Jerusalem, you can travel to the remnants of the ancient city of David, but nearby find a modern mall with Abercrombie & Fitch.”

To a question about how the trip had affected her faith, Elliott responded that reading Scriptures is different now as she can picture the places she has visited while reading about them in the Bible. “I have a much deeper appreciation and a better understanding,” she said.

Keaton said she appreciated the academic-side of the trip, which introduced questions about the Bible and men’s religious traditions. “When you keep questioning, searching and pondering, there is always something to learn,” she said. “You also need to remember that questioning does not mean rejection of a belief.”

The two said a similar trip would be a fit for Tusculum’s curriculum and students, and an itinerary could be determined to match what a particular class was studying or wanted to see.