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• Critics of the Liberal Arts Are Wrong

  
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  The question of whether our government should promote science and technology or the liberal arts in higher education is not an either/or proposition, although the current emphasis on preparing young Americans for STEM-related fields can make it seem that way. (MORE: College Costs: Would Tuition Discounts Get More ...
  16 hours ago

• Catholic Campus Minister – College of Saint Elizabeth (Morristown, NJ)

  
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  CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTER Religious Education, FT EmployeeCollege of Saint Elizabeth (Morristown, NJ)NJ Catholic womens college in the liberal arts tradition seeks full time Director of Campus Ministry. The Campus Minister will address the spiritual, r...
  6 days ago

• UT Global Initiative to Forge New Partnership at London Conference

  
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  In an effort to further extend teacher training and educational development to international markets, the Global Initiative for Education and Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin is helping to organize the Gulf Education Conference and Exhibition (GECE) on June 19-20 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in ...
  1 week ago

• Thinking Of Applying To A Religious College? Here Are Three Questions You Might Want To Consider Asking

  
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  During a recent visit to California, Senior Associate Cara Ray, had the opportunity to go on a tour of Westmont College. Westmont is a small Christian liberal arts college located in Santa Barbara, California. As you drive a few miles from downtown Santa Barbara you head up winding streets, into the hills behind the ...
  1 week ago

• Death:Intention :: Author:Rhetor

  
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  Were discussing rhetoric, and talking about intentionality and such.  (Were looking at James A. Herricks "An Overview of Rhetoric.")   The speaker is insisting that something that isnt purposeful isnt "rhetoric."   The example was a lazy email from a student, the "hey, did I miss anything in class ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Gingrich Senators’ Behind Washington’s Legislative Gridlock, Research Shows

  
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  A University of Texas at Austin government professor argues in his new book that rising polarization in the U.S. Senate has been caused almost entirely by a particular breed of Republican lawmakers known as the “Gingrich senators.” In his new book "The Gingrich Senators: The Roots of Partisan Warfare in ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Academia: Tools of Engagement, Self-Promotion, Self-Destruction

  
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  Twitter Academia. A collection of interesting links to help academics engage with wider audiences. I’ve definitely been doing my part lately, blogs, social media, trying to jazz up the Hartwick Anthropology page and even the Hartwick Anthropology Courses . At the same time, I’m always wondering about the line ...
  1 week ago

• The moral life of downtown

  
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  Back from a quick trip to Illinois to see my niece graduate high school --- and finally posting this passage from a WSJ book review: Almost two decades ago, Earl Shorris, a novelist and journalist, told the editor at his publishing house that he wanted to write a book about poverty in America. The editor, to his ...
  1 week ago

• I Don’t Like Teaching – Links on Teaching, Learning, Thinking

  
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  I don’t like teaching, but like the really great link below, I do care about it. The end of the semester is often a time for thinking about teaching, and this time I’ve already been in a whole-day workshop on First Year Seminars . Hartwick College has an unexpectedly huge first-year class (see the previous ...
  1 week ago

• Wilson Hall is breaking ground

  
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  Come September of 2015, McMaster students are in for a treat. Thanks to a $45 million dollar grant from the provincial government and a $10 million dollar donation from retiring Chancellor Lynton (Red) Wilson, the L.R. Wilson Hall for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences is finally breaking ground and is set to ...
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• Evolution of Science in 200 Words

  
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  The word science has a different meaning today than it did 100, 500 and 2500 years ago where in each case an alternative meaning for the word has become primary. The greeks found philosophy circa 500 BC using the word  ἐπιστήμη/episteme (Greek)   defined: Knowledge. (any justified true belief) ...
  2 weeks ago

• UT Austin Delegation to Promote Research Partnerships in Brazil

  
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  A delegation of University of Texas at Austin faculty members and administrators will meet with Brazilian educators and government officials in Brasilia on June 5 to forge new higher education exchanges in science and technology. UT Austin President Bill Powers will sign a partnership agreement with the Brazilian ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

  
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  Andrew Ferguson, along with Joseph Epstein and Peter Robinson, on "Who Killed the Liberal Arts?"
  2 weeks ago

• UFT picks nine more schools that will add web of social services

  
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  UFT President Michael Mulgrew visited the health clinic at Sunset Park High School, one of six community schools this year, on the first day of school. The union is adding up to a dozen additional schools to the program for the fall. The United Federation of Teachers won’t wait for a new mayor to expand the school ...
  2 weeks ago

• Art and the Christian

  
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  Three different online venues have discussed the topic of art and the Christian, in one way or another. The first one, the Gospel Coalition, presented an article entitled “How to Discourage Artists in the Church” by Philip G. Ryken, the president of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. In addressing the topic, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Repost-’Steven Fuller In Project Syndicate: Who Needs The Humanities?’

  
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  Full article here . “This enabled first him and then her to command authority regardless of birth, resulting in the forging of networks and even institutions whose benefits cut deeply across bloodlines.” Yes, the humanities are vital to a democracy, or at least in creating common experience through a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberal Arts: The Best Vocational Education Money Can Buy

  
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  A few days ago a friend of mine from college sent me a link to a new study issued by PayScale. The study evaluates all colleges and universities around the country based on the ROI graduates realized over 30 years.  Our alma mater, Claremont McKenna, finished 11 th on the list and my friend was justifiably pleased ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Approaching Zion Project: Zeal Without Knowledge

  
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  Rather than begin each AZP post with links to the previous installments, with this prefatory section becoming more and more unwieldy, I’ve decided to put all the links up on an index page. You can find links to each installment here . I’ll update the links as I post new installments. For the second time, I read ...
  3 weeks ago

• Matthew Arnold’s Address to the Class of 2013

  
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  Commencement season always brings with it a lot of hand-wringing about the utility of a college education, liberal arts education specifically.  This year’s angst is more feverish than usual, given the dismal employment prospects of graduates unlucky enough to be handed their sheepskins during the Obama ...
  3 weeks ago

• Virtual Gallery Reconstructs Art Exhibit Attended by Novelist Jane Austen

  
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  The Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin has launched an online reconstruction of a famous art exhibit visited by novelist Jane Austen on May 24, 1813 – exactly 200 years ago to the day. In a letter to her sister, Austen joked that she would be searching for a portrait of Mrs. Darcy among the ...
  3 weeks ago

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