Liberal Education, Fall 2002

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Fall2002Vol.88No.4

Civic Engagement

Presidential leaders have the opportunity to contribute the resources of their institutions to public service. The universities they lead should be models in confronting the problems of a complex society and contributing to their solution.

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President's Message

Greater Expectations and Civic Engagement

By Carol Geary Schneider

From 1818 R Street NW

From the Editor

By Bridget Puzon

Featured Topic

Presidential Leadership: Moral Leadership in the New Millennium

By Robert A. Corrigan
Presidential leaders have the opportunity to contribute the resources of their institutions to public service. The universities they lead should be models in confronting the problems of a complex society and contributing to their solution.

Pedagogy And Political (Dis)Engagement

By K. Edward Spiezio
Educators can play a leading role in promoting civic engagement through curricular and institutional innovations by which students encounter the theory and practice of participatory democracy. Models provide assistance in the effort.

Knowledge to Make Our Democracy

By Wm. David Burns
Students' intellectual engagement can be achieved by teaching through the subject of study to social issues relevant to their interests. The process of designing such curricula reveals the potential for enlarging students'civic capacities.

In Search of Wisdom: Liberal Education for a Changing World

By Nancy Thomas
The quest for a liberal education that fits contemporary students leads to reflections on the intellectual and moral capacities needed for responsible citizenship.                              

Greater Expectations

Liberal Education: Why Now? Why For All?

By Ronald Williams, Vera Zdravkovich, and Isa Egleberg
If the practical arts are the motive force behind community colleges, how are the liberal arts integrated into them?

Perspectives

The American Scholar at Brown: Diversity, the 'Open Curriculum,' and Liberal Education

By Paul B. Armstrong
While honoring the Emersonian ideal of individual self-realization, Brown's curriculum addresses the challenges of cultural difference. Interdisciplinary exploration and undergraduate research are key components of its distinctive curriculum.

Humanists among Their Machines

By Paul Hamill
Faculty create digitally rich courses in the humanities include opportunities for collaborative learning that are more effective than traditional approaches.. The development of these courses is time-consuming and, as a realistic account of what is involved reveals, complex to sustain. At the same time, equally real are the advantages for student learning.

My View

What I Teach and What I Teach for

By Robert H. Bell
From a professor's earliest days in the classroom through the course of a career, teaching is demanding, challenging, and most of all, a joy. Through the study of writing and literature, the teacher shows the pleasure derived from generous attention to literary texts.

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