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Annual Meeting: Changing
Students in a Changing World
Liberal Education
Spring 2002
Volume 88, Number 2
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CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE: COLLEGE LEARNING AND SHARED FUTURES
by Carol Schneider
FEATURED TOPIC
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PUBLIC
VALUES IN A DIVIDED WORLD: A MANDATE FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION
By James A. Joseph
With the new millennium, the focus on public values
that drive institutions and empower leaders has
become increasingly prominent. Since the macroethics
of large social institutions play a major role in
public affairs, liberal education is called upon
to provide students with opportunities to refine
their moral imagination and moral reasoning. What
are the public values needed for the modern interdependent
world?
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ARE WE ACHIEVING THE PROMISE OF DIVERSITY?
By Sylvia Hurtado
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LOOKING BEYOND THE CHALLENGES
By Diana Chapman Walsh
An intellectual community is called upon to educate
students to become morally sophisticated and to
take their moral reasoning capacity into a society
with complex pressures. Key questions are explored
in an effort to create a space where such learning
can happen.
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THE EDUCATED STUDENT: GLOBAL CITIZEN OR
GLOBAL CONSUMER?
By Benjamin R. Barber
The interdependence that characterizes the contemporary
world is undermined by the commercialization and
privatization pervading American society with consumerist
pressures reaching even into school programs. Now
terrorism has dramatically underlined our global
interdependence and public responsibilities. In
this environment, what is an adequate civic education?
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TODAY'S STUDENT ACTIVISTS: VISION, VOICE,
AND VALUES
By Vincent Pan
PERSPECTIVES
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THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY INTO LEARNING
AND TEACHING IN THE LIBERAL ARTS
By Helen Scott, Jon Chenette, and Jim Swartz
Students' need to understand and communicate in
the new electronic media parallels the necessity
to know how to write. Grinnell College set about
a long-range project to accomplish that. The description
of the steps taken over several years provides a
blueprint of collaborative effort and the financial
resources to support it.
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COOKING UP A CLASS: TEACHING AND LEARNING
FROM AN UNDIVIDED SELF
By Dianne Guenin-Lelle
Internalizing the imperative to address issues of
difference, a French professor rethinks an ethnic
studies course. A workshop on interdisciplinarity
supports the effort. In the last analysis, connecting
one's experience to course development was the catalyst
to creative learning opportunities for students.
MY VIEW
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CREATIVITY AND CROSSING BOUNDARIES
By Molly Smith
The artistic director of Washington's Arena Theater
discusses the artist's dedication to pushing against
boundaries to create art that resonates with life.
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