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| 2005
Annual Meeting
Liberal Education and the New Academy
Spring 2005
Volume 91, Number 2
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CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
- CELEBRATING
NINETY YEARS OF LEADERSHIP FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION
By Paula P. Brownlee
FEATURED TOPIC
- MAKING EXCELLENCE
INCLUSIVE:
LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AMERICA'S PROMISE
By Carol Geary Schneider
AAC&U’s ninetieth anniversary offers an
opportunity for reflection. Where are we now in our
shared commitment to the values and practices of liberal
education, and where do we need to go, within the
academy as a whole and within the association itself?
- PEDAGOGIES
OF UNCERTAINTY
By Lee S. Shulman
Professional education poses compelling pedagogical
challenges that can and should inform all sectors
of education, including undergraduate liberal education.
It is about developing pedagogies to link ideas, practices,
and values under conditions of inherent uncertainty
that necessitate not only judgment in order to act,
but also cognizance of the consequences of action.
- THE
MINER’S CANARY: ENLISTING RACE, RESISTING POWER,
AND TRANSFORMING DEMOCRACY
By Lani Guinier
Miners used canaries as early warning signals: when
a canary gasped for breath, the miners knew there
was a problem with the atmosphere in the mine. The
experience of people of color in higher education
can be used similarly as a diagnostic tool.
LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AMERICA'S PROMISE
- LIBERAL EDUCATION
FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY:
BUSINESS EXPECTATIONS
By Roberts T. Jones
A liberal education is the foundation for success
in every growing occupation. Employers do not want,
and have not advocated for, students prepared for
narrow workforce specialties. But is the traditional
framework of liberal education calibrated to the demands
of the changing world?
PERSPECTIVES
- 1968--THE
ANNUAL MEETING
By Max S. Marshall
The deliberate gatherings that best display man’s
eccentricities are the annual meetings of professional,
usually also professorial, groups.
- A PROFOUND
UNKNOWING: THE CHALLENGE OF RELIGION IN THE LIBERAL
EDUCATION OF WORLD CITIZENS
By Natalie Gummer
Discussions of world citizenship that elide the challenge
of grappling with religious worldviews expose a covert
intolerance at the very core of secularism, calling
into question the “liberality” of liberal
education. The ethical imperative of engaging with
different worldviews not only demands that religions
be taught, but also raises questions regarding how
religious worldviews should be taught.
- THE CIVIC
PROMISE OF SERVICE LEARNING
By John Saltmarsh
Service learning has moved into the mainstream of
American higher education as an effective pedagogical
approach to improving the teaching and learning of
course content, but it has not sufficiently addressed
the civic dimensions of the disciplines. The next
phase of service learning’s development must
focus on the achievement
of civic learning outcomes.
MY VIEW
- WHY ARE LIBERAL
EDUCATION’S FRIENDS OF SO LITTLE HELP?
By Marshall Gregory
Liberal education needs fewer friends who are merely
well meaning and more friends who train themselves
to fight for liberal education’s distinctive
goals—not to mention its very survival—the
way they train themselves to be smart, savvy, and
successful in their disciplines.
FROM 1818 R STREET NW
- FROM
THE EDITOR
- NEWS AND INFORMATION
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