Shelby Davis – Dare to Dream!
BREAKING NEWS: UWC Receives Major Donation from Shelby Davis ** Introducing the new Davis-UWC Dare to Dream programme ** For UWC, the year 2018 is off to a fantastic start: Shelby Davis has just announced another major donation to UWC of at least 100 million USD! This gift is one of the most significant gifts [...]
UWC Connect at Atlantic College
Last week Leonora Kleiven and Joakim Janninge, staff from UWC Connect, visited Atlantic College to meet with their Outdoors Department to learn and share experiences of how to best develop outdoor activities and local outreach. Alongside the sharing they also got to participate in different activities, among them gorging. It was fun! Maybe it will [...]
Anne Terwitte (RCN ’01 – ’03)
When I graduated from RCN some 14 years ago I thought I‘d be coming back to Norway: perhaps to be an au pair (with no clue why I would want to look after kids); I thought maybe I‘d study Scandinavistics (with no clue why I would want that); and I thought one day I‘d [...]
A Visit from Santa Claus
Santa Claus came early to Haugland this year. We have just got the good news that Gjensidige Foundation have granted UWC RCN 125,850NOK to be spent on dry suits for our kayaking and canoeing activities. We are really happy and grateful as this means we can have full year-round activity under the fjords for both [...]
Magnea Gná Jóhannsdóttir (RCN ’15 – ’17)
I remember the time I ran early in the morning to class but stopped to look over the ice-layered fjord mirroring the mountains and being passed by five others who also stopped, breathed in the frozen air and became completely mesmerized by the view for a moment and then ran off to class. It was beautiful [...]
Nobel Peace Prize 2017
Five UWC Red Cross Nordic students - Akari (Japan), Henrik (Norway), Jinho (East Timor), Jorge (Mexico), Mikkeline (Denmark) - and one member of staff (Larry, our Rektor) attended the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in the City Hall in Oslo on Sunday 10th December. The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish [...]