Elise Young, junior at Lee University, was chosen to attend the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Summer Honors Program. Click to enlarge all our photos.
Cleveland, TN - Elise Young, a junior political science major at Lee University and a native of Albany, Georgia, was selected to participate in the prestigious Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Summer Honors Program.
ISI is one of the most competitive and highly-esteemed “advanced” programs for undergraduate students in the social sciences and is intended to encourage young students to think about the tradition of politics and morality.
Ms. Young’s advisor, Dr. Lee Cheek, Associate Professor of Political Science at Lee, encouraged her to apply for the program. Ms. Young was selected from a pool of thousands of applicants to be among the 24 ISI Honors Fellows for the year 2003-2004.
According to Dr. Cheek, “Elise represents the kind of thinker and student we are trying to nurture in the Political Science Program at Lee University. She is able to combine the insights from the past to address contemporary problems.”
The ISI seminar entitled, “Enlivening the Movement and the Moral Imagination – An Introduction into the Legacy of Russell Kirk” was held at Piety Hill in Mecosta, Mi., the ancestral home of Dr. Russell Kirk and home of the Russell Kirk Center.
Ms. Young described the event as “an opportunity to reflect seriously on what is most important in the Western political tradition, and how we can preserve it.”
Speakers at the event included Dr. Vigen Guroian, Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center and Professor of Theology and Ethics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Md., and Dr. Bradley Birzer of Hillsdale College.