By Carol Geary Schneider

By Bridget Puzon

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?

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.

By Vincent Pan

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.

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.