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What Higher Education Administrators do not Understand about Budget Cuts and Furloughs
The poet Walt Whitman, visiting army hospitals along the Potomac River in 1862, came upon “a heap of amputated feet, legs, arms, hands, &c., a full load for a one-horse cart,” hospital waste of soldiers of the Army of the … Continue reading
The Liberal Arts: The Continuing Foundation for Learning in Our Society by means of the Trivium and Quadrivium
The Liberal Arts are based in the historical trivium and quadrivium. The Trivium is Latin, literally “a place where three roads meet”. Quadrivium is Latin for where four roads meet. The Liberal Arts of today derive from the meeting of … Continue reading
The Small Liberal Arts College in Crisis: Is there a Solution?
I teach at a small parochial liberal arts college in Oklahoma. Like other such colleges, parochial and secular, this college, Bacone College, is continually in crisis: financial crisis, enrollment crisis, staffing crisis, management crisis. There are a host of reasons … Continue reading
In Defense of Great Books
Recently Yale University students asked their professors to stop assigning readings from English poets, as there is a preponderance of White male poets, and the White voice has been dominant for too long. I teach at a college where the … Continue reading
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College Students, College Thinkers
Students… Why are you at college? What brought you to college? What motivated you to come to a college rather than to stay where you were, to continue what you were doing? There are many possibilities…a degree program in criminal … Continue reading
The American Plutarch 