Student Life will undoubtedly be much more exciting once we've established our physical campus and can all drink mead around the hearth and listen to the harpers and bards singing and playing. However, we are making every effort to create a student community on our cyber-campus too. This page list some of the resources available to our students. We'll be adding others over time.
Advising
One of the advantages of being a student at Avalon Center is having access to a top-notch faculty of experienced witches, wizards, and druids who can advise you on your studies. While our faculty are not paid to be spiritual mentors and are no substitute for a local pagan clergy person, coven leader, or grove leader, they are nevertheless available to you and you are encouraged to talk to them outside of class as well as in. You can chose from among the whole faculty who you want as your academic adviser, and this choice becomes an important one as you advance in your studies. At the doctoral level in the Ollamh program, your adviser will also be your dissertation director, guiding you in the process of conducting your research and writing your book-length thesis. The Center encourages its faculty members to act as mentors as well as instructors, and we hope that you will also find among our teachers some good friends.
Avalon Forum Message Boards
The Avalon Center Forum Message Boards are virtual places for rubbing virtual elbows with faculty, students, and visitors to the cyber-campus. The Forum works like most online message boards to creat the potential for an online community. As a student, you can post to the public boards that are organized by department, as well as more informally in the Flaming Head Pub and the Reading Room, where discussions of books and articles are encouraged.
The Student Common Room
On the Forum is one special board which will only be visible to you if you are a student. It is the Student Common Room, where you are able to talk privately with your fellow students. Not even the administrator of the message board is authorized to enter that inner sanctum and a student is appointed as the forum's moderator. To gain entrance to the Common Room, you will need to notify the admin to be added to the student user-group.
John Dee Library
The John Dee Library is intended to develop over the next five years into a truly comprehensive resource of web links and e-texts in all of the subject areas of the Center. Eventually, it will also consist of a physical collection of books, journals, and archives that are housed in a building of its own on campus. The physical collection will be a private lending library reserved for the use of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and alumni of the center.
