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President’s Message
Recognizing and Supporting Faculty Work
By Carol Geary Schneider
Although they stand at the center of the academic enterprise and their work is the key to educational quality, faculty are curiously absent from the recently released report of the
Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
From the Editor
News and Information
FEATURED TOPIC
From Athens and Berlin to LA: Faculty Work and the New Academy
By R. Eugene Rice
The current context requires a comprehensive and transformative approach to the reorganization of faculty work; an additive or incremental approach to reform is insufficient. In exploring new ways of organizing faculty work in the twenty-first-century academy, it is important to build on the strengths of the past.
Faculty Professionalism: Failures of Socialization and the Road to Loss of Professional Autonomy
By Neil Hamilton
The failure of the academic profession to renew the social contract in each generation through intentional socialization on faculty professionalism will eventually lead to further loss of professional autonomy.
Should Academic Unions Get Involved in Governance?
By Stanley Aronowitz
The relative powerlessness of most faculty senates and the independence of unions suggest that the time may be propitious to raise the possibility that, if unions choose to become involved in governance issues, there is a chance to reverse the long-term trend toward faculty disempowerment.
Reinforcing Our “Keystone” Faculty: Strategies to Support Faculty in the Middle Years of Academic Life
By Roger G. Baldwin and Deborah A. Chang
Despite the critical roles they play, faculty members in the middle phase of their careers have been largely ignored in higher education policy and practice. The authors examine existing strategies for supporting mid-career faculty and propose a process for mid-career faculty development.
LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AMERICA'S PROMISE
University of Wisconsin System Liberal Arts Scholarship Competition
Three undergraduate students from University of Wisconsin System campuses have won the first annual Liberal Arts Scholarship Competition, established to support and promote
liberal education throughout the state’s public university system. Published here are the winning essays on the value of a liberal arts education in the twenty-first century.
Significant and Applicable Knowledge: Liberal Arts in the Twenty-first Century
By Heather Damitz
Empowering Citizens for the Twenty-first Century
By Andrew Myszewski
The Liberal Arts: Preserving Humanity
By Jennifer Urbanek
PERSPECTIVES
Liberal Education and “Social Justice”
By James V. Schall, SJ
Does justice, especially what is now called “social justice,” have any place in liberal education?
A Question-Centered Approach to Liberal Education
By Anthony Mansueto
The earliest organization of liberal education—the medieval quaestio form—remains the best. Restoring this question-centered approach, and adapting it to the new global context, would enable colleges and universities to provide an education that is both rigorous and accessible.
The Conflation of Liberal and Professional Education:
Pipedream, Aspiration, or Nascent Reality?
By Todd S. Hutton
Progress has been made in bringing liberal arts and professional programs together, although the professions have reached farther across the aisle to bridge the old divisions. The challenge is to achieve an authentic mutual integration of liberal and professional learning objectives.
MY VIEW
“Other Ways of Knowing” and Liberal Education
By Michael C. McFarland, SJ
Institutions committed to liberal education cannot shy away from the fundamental questions students are bringing with them about faith and the intellectual life, about the source and content
of our ethical obligations, about the nature and meaning of the world and their place in it.
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