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My Reflection on Spending a Few Days North of the Border Thinking about Liberal Education in the Age of Automation… and Why My Head Still Hurts (in a good way)
Jul 21, 2019 · original
Dr. Stephen Biscotte, Director of General Education at Virginia Tech In May, I had the pleasure of attending the Liberal Education 2019 Conference hosted by Mount Royal University and Medicine Hat College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The premise was simple: a group of people dedicated to teaching general education get locked (sorry, strongly encouraged to remain) in a hotel conference room for two-and-a-half days of 20min paper talks and keynote presentations interrupted only by lunch and coffee breaks. Joyce Lucke, the Director of AGLS, and I presented on the current intersection of general education, technology, and workforce development across the United States. For fun, Joyce played the role of an industry representative calling for higher education reform to better prepare students for the ever-changing workforce. She demanded graduates with more creativity, cultural awareness, tech
Restoring General Education’s Civic Purpose
Nov 22, 2018 · original
William McKinney, Senior Advisor for Regional Campus Affairs at Indiana University and Chair Elect/Steering Committee of the American Deomocracy Project (Blogger’s note: what follows is excerpted from my keynote address at the 2017 AGLS Conference, held in September in Memphis, TN.) In so many ways, I am thrilled to be back in Memphis, back at AGLS. Twenty-four years ago, right here in Memphis, I attended my first AGLS meeting. In 1993, I was a new tenure track assistant professor of philosophy at Southeast Missouri State University. The Internet was primarily a tool used by researchers to share information. Email was not yet a necessity. In my home department, for instance, we did not yet have our own desktop computers. Instead, we had one central terminal onto which we could log, check email, and communicate quickly with colleagues. Fast forward 24 years. Here I am. Back in Memphis. Ba
Restoring General Education’s Civic Purpose
Nov 22, 2018 · original
William McKinney (Indiana University) AGLS Council Member American Deomocracy Project, Chair Elect, Steering Committee (Blogger’s note: what follows is excerpted from my keynote address at the 2017 AGLS Conference, held in September in Memphis, TN.) In so many ways, I am thrilled to be back in Memphis, back at AGLS. Twenty-four years ago, right here in Memphis, I attended my first AGLS meeting. In 1993, I was a new tenure track assistant professor of philosophy at Southeast Missouri State University. The Internet was primarily a tool used by researchers to share information. Email was not yet a necessity. In my home department, for instance, we did not yet have our own desktop computers. Instead, we had one central terminal onto which we could log, check email, and communicate quickly with colleagues. Fast forward 24 years. Here I am. Back in Memphis. Back at AGLS. I have been a departme
Pensive Post Pittsburgh
Oct 28, 2018 · original
Bruce Umbaugh (Webster University) AGLS President-Elect Nearly a month past the outstanding 2018 AGLS ‘Constitute’ in Pittsburgh, three things stick with me. Foremost are ideas — and the example — presented by Christopher P. Long in his Saturday keynote address, “Practicing the Arts of Liberty.” He quoted (among others) James Baldwin: “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.” Long described Core Habits of the Arts of Liberty: attentive listening, ethical imagination, and critical discernment. These values must be realized by being lived — by becoming habits. He used examples from his experience as an academic administrator trying to collaborate in navigating large educational institutions through horrific human tragedies and crises. http://cplong.org/2018/09/agls-keynote-practicing-the-arts-of-liberty/ https://twitter.com/i/moments/1043601980395016193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
But What is a Consti-tute?
May 21, 2017 · original
Alison Parker-Moore (Belmont University) AGLS Council Member Before we get to the heart of the above question, allow me to elaborate just a bit on the role of the AGLS in your world of delivering higher education then I can explain the concept of a ‘con-stitute’. The Association for General and Liberal Studies focuses on connecting faculty and administrators with the tools they need to create, revise, and/or run a quality general education program. We like to say that the AGLS is dedicated to helping those in the ‘trenches’ of general education succeed in meeting their goals…we are a resource for those faculty and administrators (who are often still faculty) who are tasked to deal with the daily operation of general education. How do the faculty and administrators in these roles learn what they need to know to be effective? How do they avoid repeating the mistakes of similar institutions
Creating a State GEM – Revisited
May 4, 2015 · original
Creating a State GEM – Revisited Vicki Stieha, Ph.D. Director, Foundational Studies Program and Asst. Professor Curriculum, Instruction and Foundational Studies. Boise State University. Last year at the AGLS Conference in Atlanta , a team of presenters from five Idaho public colleges and universities shared our statewide plan for general education which provides consistency across institutions while allowing institutional variety. We call our program the Idaho General Education Matriculation (or GEM) Plan . The move to create commonality in the general education core for our institutions came from the faculty and leadership of our institutions. In 2011 it was clear that the time had come to update our statewide general education and transfer policy to be more consistent with national models and with the changes happening at Boise State University and the University of Idaho . As our 2014
Why Join AGLS?
Apr 9, 2015 · original
Why join AGLS? Michael J. Kolb, Metropolitan State University of Denver In an early 20th century response to Thomas Edison’s statement that attending college is a useless endeavor, Albert Einstein replied that “the value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” Yet, almost 100 years later, with college costs on the rise and most institutions of higher education employing a market model increasingly defined by the narrower needs of the today’s economy, the liberal studies are being squeezed out of the curriculum. Consequently, a liberal studies education is becoming less accessible, even threatening to widen the gap between the affluent members of society and those of lesser privilege or opportunity. In 2013, after intense stints as a faculty member, general education
Things that have Worked Before
Feb 23, 2015 · original
by Dr. Ted Remington, University of Saint Francis Last semester, I was talking with students in my section of the University of Saint Francis’s first-year experience seminar about the nature of the course itself. Several had voiced complaints about compulsory additional sessions held during the first eight weeks of the semester that were intended to provide an “extended orientation” aspect to the seminar (e.g. learning how to register for classes, finer points of financial aid, etc.). I understood their complaints—the sessions are held on Friday afternoons and often cover material that, while valuable, students feel they already know. I explained that these sessions were part of an experiment we were trying to see how to best get this information to students. One woman said without hesitation, “We’re always getting experimented on!” Suddenly, the conversation was no longer about lack of
The More Things Change…
Oct 29, 2014 · original
A big box arrived at my office last summer. It was from AGLS Past President Larry Kaptain, and it was full of back issues of Perspectives , the former journal of the AGLS. The oldest one inside dated to the summer of 1987, and that’s the one that most intrigued me because I graduated from college that summer. Wondering what the issues were in general and liberal studies at that time, when I had just joined the ranks of “liberally educated people,” I opened the volume eagerly. The full conference schedule for AGLS greeted my eyes, and a couple of familiar themes leaped off the pages. Several sessions pointed to a raging debate: should we be teaching the western tradition or non-western, multicultural content? Another set of sessions argued for a feminist approach to liberal education, for transcending racial boundaries, and for the role of general and liberal studies at HBCUs. A third gro
What Will Your Verse Be?
Aug 21, 2014 · original
What will your verse be? The recent death of Robin Williams shocked the world. ‘Heartbroken’ is seen again and again in social media posts, expressed in interviews and undoubtedly felt by millions of fans. Tributes and retrospectives highlight his varied career–featuring routines from stand up, television shows, movies and Broadway performances. Clips from stand-out performances are being replayed repeatedly in every media outlet. Each of us likely has a favorite performance. Mine is from Dead Poets Society . Carpe Diem is what many would consider to be the movie’s message, and an often quoted scene of dialogue. For me, another scene hit home, indirectly changing my path in life. John Keating (Williams) tells his students, “ I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way ,” challenging his students to leave their seats and have the courage

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