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Kedge (kej) n. A small anchor.
issue: Spring 08
Sometimes we learn more from our failures than our success. Families invest considerable time, money, resources and effort when deciding on a university. When it doesn't play out as planned, it may often seem as if the wrong decision was made or that ability is limited. Now, a new program provides options to undergraduate students facing this dilemma. Kedge, the brainchild of M. Ellen Mitchell, Dean of IIT Institute of Psychology, and Michael Gosz, Associate Provost of Undergraduate Affairs, is providing support and a renewed chance for students whose work flounders.

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Due to the generosity of numerous colleagues and friends of Institute of Psychology Board of Overseer Ron Bliwas, and a gift from IIT Board of Trustees member Walter Nathan, a new phase of the Voices of the Holocaust project can proceed. Last year IIT received word from a prominent foundation (wishing to remain anonymous) that it would contribute $50,000 to fund the project if the institute and IIT Paul V. Galvin Library raised an equal matching amount. The challenge was met, and work will now begin to translate, transcribe, and preserve 48 additional oral interviews that David P. Boder personally collected in Europe in 1946 with Holocaust survivors which have never been heard before. As part of this project, the website, voices.iit.edu, will be upgraded to feature the additional interviews and provide research tools for families and Holocaust scholars.