Initiative to Bring Women from Middle East to New College

In hope of fostering peace and creating a new generation of enlightened leaders, New College of Florida and the Daughters for Life Foundation have launched a community initiative to bring up to 10 women a year from the Middle East to Sarasota on full four-year scholarships. The initiative, called Educate for Change, would recruit scholars from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories to New College in 2014 and subsequent years. The Educate for Change initiative already has lined up a broad-based steering committee, including Sue Jacobson, a leader in the region’s Jewish community; Rabbi Jonathan Katz of Temple Beth Israel on Longboat Key; New College President Donal O’ Shea; Sarasota Circuit Court Judge Charles Williams and Dan Boxser, an international businessman who sparked the project.