Summary of Basic Involvement and Expectations

  • Fulfillment of each year's special focus
  • Enrollment in each year's academic course
  • Completion of Rel. 110 "Quakerism"
  • Five hours per week minimum involvement
  • Grade point average of 2.5 after second year
  • Full participation without prodding
  • Participation in campus and local Quaker life and worship
  • Regular meetings with QLSP grade-level
  • Monthly QLSP programs
  • Maintenance of a portfolio

APPENDICES

  1. Examples of speakers, programs, retreats, and other activities of QLSP
  2. Sample re-enrollment form
  3. QLSP Transcript of Practice
  4. Senior Project Examples
  5. Portfolio Guidelines

Recent speakers

  • Kathryn Damiano of the School of the Spirit
  • Mary Lord of FCNL
  • Chris and Christina Lawson, formerly of Woodbrooke Study Centre
  • Douglas Gwyn, Quaker scholar
  • Johan Maurer, Executive Secretary of Friends United Meeting
  • Hugh Pyper, British Quaker theologian
  • John Punshon, Quaker historian and author
  • Tom Mullen, Quaker humorist and writer
  • Huston Smith, scholar of the world's religions
  • Arla Patch, Signe Wilkinson, Susan Stark, and Chuck Fager, for the Quakers and the Arts conference
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Quaker astrophysicist and discoverer of the pulsar
  • Art and Peggy Gish, Christian communitarians and peace activists

Retreats, Workshops and Forums

  • Spiritual Life retreat with Deborah Saunders
  • Witness for Peace protest against the School of the Americas, Greg Hessell
  • Workshop for Nonviolent Social Action with George Lakey
  • Pendle Hill with Dan Seeger
  • Appalachian Peace and Justice Network, Peggy Gish
  • "Gentle Invaders: Quaker Women Educators and Race Issues During the Civil War and Reconstruction" with author Linda Selleck
  • "The Martyrdom of Mary Dyer," dramatic reading by Darlene and Michael Graves
  • Quaker Renewal Program series on Friends and Healing, Quakers and Christ, and What Future for Friends?

Small Group Discussions

  • Basic Quakerism
  • Psalms
  • Bible
  • Religious Diversity
  • Spirituality

Worktrips

  • Repairing flood damage in Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia with NC Friends Disaster Service
  • Service project at Olney Friends School in Ohio
  • Hurricane damage relief in Florida
  • Service work in various parts of Philadelphia
  • Work at MOWA Choctaw Friends Center and Academy in Alabama
  • Open Door homeless community in Atlanta, GA
  • Tompkins' Organic Farm in the NC mountains
  • Cuba, Belize, and Palestine

Conferences

  • Friends Association for Higher Education
  • Friends World Committee for Consultation
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation
  • Christian Peacemakers Congress
  • United Society of Friends Women
  • Friends General Conference
  • Friends United Meeting
  • YouthQuake