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Vital Signs: Voices
from the Field
Liberal Education
Winter 2002
Volume 88, Number 1
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CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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PRESIDENTS'
CALL: CAMPAIGN FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIBERAL EDUCATION
by Carol Schneider
FEATURED TOPIC
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DEMOCRACY,
LEADERSHIP, AND THE ROLE OF LIBERAL EDUCATION
By Mary Marcy
Education creates an educated citizenry capable
of the leadership essential to democracy. Liberal
education, by questioning, exploring, and challenging,
is needed in the present environment in order to
sustain democracy.
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A PLEA FOR THINKING HEADS
By Thomas Cottle
John Dewey developed ideas regarding reflective
thinking and the challenges to it that are relevant
to our times. Education is intended to provide a
repertoire of intellectual activities for systematic
and disciplined thinking that can counteract assaults
on reason.
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FINDING COMMUNITY
By Marsha Guenzler-Stevens
At the University of Maryland the potentially disruptive
events of September 11 had the effect of uniting
diverse groups. The spontaneous as well as the planned
activities forged a community with a common ethos
and purpose.
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MOBILIZING A UNIVERSITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS
By Michael Jackson
The varied resources represented by people who make
a university function, from security staff to presidential
leadership and all those in between, were called
upon to respond to the potential threats to the
university's core mission posed by terrorist acts.
A glimpse of how that worked.
PERSPECTIVES
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STRENGTHENING
PUBLIC EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY:
EDUCATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT STONY BROOK
By Richard Keeling
Leadership in working out the potential benefits
of the Program for Health and Higher Education led
to the creation of a learning community around public
health issues relevant to students. The program
expanded into outreach to local high schools in
order to engage students in learning about these
issues and what they could contribute to solving
them.
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THE
ORIEL COMMON ROOM: GENERAL EDUCATION AND FACULTY
CULTURE
By Robert Holyer
Student learning is strongly influenced by interaction
with faculty. John Henry Newman's experience of
intellectual community in the faculty common room
serves as a model for faculty renewal. Any revision
of the general education curriculum necessarily
calls for the renewal of faculty culture to ensure
its vitality and success.
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GENERAL EDUCATION REVISITED, AGAIN
By Peter Stearns
General education requires continuous attentiveness
by all those involved in its design and implementation.
In general education courses, students get their
first experience of the vitality of college-level
learning. The issues involved in the framework of
effective general education include such things
as program design, size and scope, governance and
faculty engagement.
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FINDING THE BIASES IN A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS
By Alison Cook-Sather, Katherine Rowe, and Elliott
Shore
An interdisciplinary course explores the various
biases that are woven into human lives and seen
in texts. Students express how they learn to recognize
and follow the biases from which people write, and
in the process, they comprehend a wide range of
experience.
MY VIEW
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CO-OPTING THE MARKETPLACE IN SERVICE OF
LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION
By Beverly Kahn
Translation of the values and goals of liberal arts
education into terms relevant to career-oriented
students is a task worth developing. The quality
of their education requires their having learning
experiences that broaden and deepen their intellectual
capacities.
FROM 1818 R STREET NW
- FROM
THE EDITOR
- NEWS AND INFORMATIO
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