CSC's labyrinth featured in international index

CSC Art Professor Mary Donahue and her students worked with retired Instructional Designer Elizabeth Ledbetter, Grounds Supervisor Lucinda Mays, and others to plan, design and construct the labyrinth west of C-Hill.

Sellers is a retired education and guidance professional who has worked in universities, colleges, schools, and in non-profit adult education in the UK and the US.

As a recipient of a 2005 National Teaching Fellowship for her work in student development at the University of Kent in the UK, Sellers was able to create the University of Kent’s Labyrinth Project in 2007, leading to the construction of the Canterbury Labyrinth on the Canterbury Campus.

Sellers said she featured the CSC labyrinth as a case study in Part I: Introduction (pp. 9-10) of the Index for several reasons.

“It is a fine example of a labyrinth being in an exceptional setting, in pandemic times, with whole-hearted community participation (academic and wider community) and as part of the curriculum. It's valuable to have these aspects highlighted,” Sellers said.

According to Part II of Sellers’ publication, the User Guide and Index, CSC is the only college campus in Nebraska to have a labyrinth.

Sellers wrote in the index that she has been struck throughout her research by the variety of ways in which people are engaging with labyrinths “with imagination, with compassion, with energy.”

“Throughout the Index, readers will find time-honoured ways of engaging with these quiet spaces and places, and creative innovations that enhance the teaching and learning experience. There are many opportunities, as I have myself discovered, to learn from the experiences of others,” Sellers wrote.