{"id":7604,"date":"2021-11-09T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:20:11","slug":"winter-term-trips-eckerd-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/winter-term-trips-eckerd-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Term trips bring global education back to Eckerd College"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”] [image_with_animation image_url=”7605″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]Associate Professor of Biology and Marine Science William Szelistowski (“Ski”) dives down for a closer photograph of a silky shark. Photo: Bjorn Peterson ’20, from the 2018 Winter Term Photo Contest<\/a><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

They were all prepared. Students in Associate Professor of Biology and Marine Science William Szelistowski<\/a>\u2019s \u201cElasmobranch Biology and Management\u201d and \u201cBiology of Fishes\u201d classes were going to travel to the Bahamas to do hands-on research with 10 different shark species in the spring of 2020.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Then the world shut down for the pandemic, and they thought they had lost their chance. With help from the new Associate Dean of Global Education<\/a> Thandiwe Dinani, Ph.D., two-thirds of those students will still make their dream trip to the Bimini Shark Research Lab<\/a> in January 2022 for Winter Term.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got in again,\u201d says Matt Hellerman, a senior marine science<\/a> student from Ashland, Massachusetts. \u201cI\u2019m conflicted, but I\u2019m excited to get to travel for my last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although everything can\u2019t go back to normal yet, Dinani says we are at a point where we can ask, \u201c\u2018What do we need to do to manage traveling safely during COVID-19?\u2019 Most of the world has begun moving again, rather than attempting to avoid any possible exposure.\u201d She is clear that the virus and its complications aren\u2019t going away, but she has been balancing all of the necessary components to make Winter Term<\/a> travel happen again. Next year, 250 students will participate in 12 international courses in eight countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy entire scope continually focuses on, Can I keep students, faculty and everyone safe?\u201d Dinani says, which this year also means taking into account the vaccination rates and exposure rates of other countries, as well as the ability to minimize exposure to the students.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]While not all destinations are safe enough to return to this academic year\u2019s roster, Dinani and faculty have been working day in and day out to make as many of the locations as possible attainable. \u201cThere were daily conversations. For each trip we sat down with each faculty member \u2026 We\u2019ve watched daily, researched daily; we talked with our partners on the ground, and none of the decisions made were easy decisions.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Szelistowski\u2019s Bimini course had been an optional spring trip accompanying his \u201cElasmobranch [shark and ray] Biology and Management\u201d and \u201cBiology of Fishes\u201d classes. From living at the lab to hands-on research in the classroom and in the water, it\u2019s easy to see why this is such a popular trip<\/a>. During Winter Term, however, Szelistowski has traditionally led a different but similar trip to Cuba with the University of Havana<\/a>\u2019s Marine Science Program. That will not be the case this year. Two major factors made him switch it up: \u201cOne is I couldn\u2019t go to Cuba [due to the conditions of coronavirus], and two is I\u2019ve got this huge backlog of students that want to go to Bimini \u2026 So what I\u2019m doing is, the Bimini trip this year for Winter Term is back to a course instead of the optional educational field trip in the spring,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

This shift will offer a safer global education experience and allow students who lost their long-awaited shot at Bimini in 2020 to get this unique experience after all. \u201cMost of the people that are in my Winter Term course were ones that had the rug pulled out from underneath their feet a year and a half ago. Eleven out of the 16 were scheduled to go to Bimini and couldn\u2019t go because of COVID.\u201d Szelistowski will offer a new Spring Break trip in March 2022 for this academic year\u2019s spring Elasmobranch class.<\/p>\n

Other Winter Term trips have been meticulously changed to run a program with minimal exposure that still allows the content to be taught, Dinani says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy this year? Why did we not wait another year?\u201d Dinani wonders aloud. \u201cThe field of global education, and the entire world, is beginning to recognize that travel is most likely going to look like this next year, too, to a degree. I’m not quite certain that COVID is going away any time soon.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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