Liberal Education back issues from September 2002:
Greater Expectations & civic engagement. (President's Message).
Sep 22, 2002; ... This fall, AAC&U released its newest national report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College. Since then, my colleagues and I have been taking part in "Campus-Community Dialogues" across the nation, as colleges and universities from New England to New ...
From the Editor.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2002; ... If not civically engaged, what is one's status in a democratic society? Detached? A spectator? Or disengaged--and absent from the action that builds a healthy body politic? Alarming statistics about student participation in public affairs, notably in voting, have raised red flags for ...
Jerry Gaff. (News and Information).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Jerry Gaff concluded his work at AAC&U on Preparing Future Faculty on September 30. He will remain affiliated with AAC&U as a Senior Scholar. The first of two handbooks, Preparing Future Faculty in the Sciences and Mathematics, co-authored by Jerry Gaff with Ann ...
Annual Meeting 2003. (News and Information).
Sep 22, 2002 ... The Courage to Question: Liberal Education in the 21st Century is the theme of AAC&U's 2003 Annual Meeting. The meeting will convene at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers from January 22 to 25, 2003. AAC&U's recently released report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a ...
Network Meetings. (News and Information).
Sep 22, 2002 ... AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal will hold meetings in spring 2003: February 27-March 1, General Education: Goals, Strategies, and ...
AAC&U 2003 Summer Institutes. (News and Information).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Participation in AAC&U Summer Institutes, designed for campus teams, is by application. Each institute has its own process. Information will be available in early December at www.aacu.org. May 31-June 4, Asheville Institute on General Education, ...
Greater Expectations. (News and Information).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... The National Panel on Greater Expectations released its report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College. The report calls for a new focus on excellence to better prepare students for the 21st century world ....
AAC&U Membership 2002.(American Association of Colleges and Universities )(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... <Pre> With the current issue of Liberal Education, the journal gets a new look, most notably on its cover. Typefaces for headings on articles also change. A crisp, clear, modern design will, we hope, prove more pleasing to the eye. AAC&U ...
Presidential leadership: moral leadership in the new millennium.
Sep 22, 2002; ... I DO BELIEVE that those of us leading colleges and universities today are a unique generation of university presidents--academic administrators with a social conscience. And I would like to think that some decades from now, our successors will look back to this period as a turning ...
Pedagogy and political (dis) engagement: educators can play a decisive role in transforming this teachable moment into an enduring encounter with the theory and practice of participatory democracy. (Featured Topic).
Sep 22, 2002; ... FOR EDUCATORS hoping to promote greater civic engagement among younger Americans, September 11 seems to have played the perversely functional role of cauterizing the consciousness of this heretofore politically disengaged generation. In the aftermath of the attack, college and high school ...
Knowledge to make our democracy. (Featured Topic).
Sep 22, 2002; ... MANY WRITERS, commissions, and panels of leaders have pleaded a case for improving scientific literacy and numeracy as a fundamental goal for our democracy and a critical challenge to be met by those designing a good college education. Developing these capacities within a civic context ...
In Search of Wisdom: Liberal Education for a Changing World. (Featured Topic).
Sep 22, 2002; ... With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mount Holyoke College sponsored a conference, In Search of Wisdom: Liberal Education for a Changing World, to facilitate a vision of liberal education as a search for wisdom. Nancy Thomas, one of the conference planners and a participant, ...
Liberal education: Why now? Why for all? (Greater Expectations).
Sep 22, 2002; ... ON A FRIDAY MORNING last May, a group of faculty members invited us to sit in on a special seminar session. Through the beneficence of a National Endowment for the Humanities focus grant, a dozen liberal arts faculty members had been selected to spend a year studying the works of ...
The American Scholar at Brown.(Brown University)
Sep 22, 2002; ... IN AN ADDRESS at Brown's Phi Beta Kappa initiation ceremony, I borrowed the title of Ralph Waldo Emerson's oration to Alpha of Massachusetts in 1837, and I asked what "The American Scholar at Brown" might mean today. The answer I gave has to do with what I think is the great potential of ...
Humanists among their machines. (Perspectives).(using and teaching educational technology)
Sep 22, 2002; ... TRADITIONAL HUMANITIES DISCIPLINES are beginning to adopt sophisticated digital technology for regular instructional use in colleges. Costs are starting to rise, and organizational structures will soon change in ways that science departments would instantly recognize. Most colleges and ...
What I teach and what I teach for. (My View).(English teachers and job satisfaction)
Sep 22, 2002; ... THIRTY YEARS AGO, I was a twenty-six-year-old assistant professor, teaching Macbeth to about thirty students. Like all beginning teachers, afraid that some student might raise his hand and ask, "What does that mean?" I had massively overprepared by rereading Macbeth a dozen times. Amid an ...