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Toward a Deliberative University Public
I have always sought to integrate my philosophical commitments into my administrative life. So, when Noëlle McAfee came to campus to deliver a paper entitled, “Deliberation and the Affective Dimensions...
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One of the values we hope to integrate into the new General Education curriculum at Penn State is a recognition of the importance of public deliberation. Deliberating in public is difficult; it...
View Article#PSUGenEd and the Research Endeavor
We at Penn State are engaged in an intense, ongoing and, in my view, very healthy dialogue about General Education reform. In the course of our conversations with faculty here at University Park, I...
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The Information Technology unit at Penn State holds IT Matters breakfasts a few times a year. This semester I joined colleagues on stage to talk about my work and how it intersects with IT at Penn...
View ArticleBeginning Anew with #PSUGenEd
One of the most frustrating and rewarding aspects of Aristotle’s thinking is that he is constantly starting over. “Let us again continue the discussion from another starting-point …,” he says at the...
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Ike Advocates for #PSUGenEd at Penn State Centennial Commencement
Fifty-nine years ago today, on June 9, 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower addressed the centennial graduating class of Penn State, where his brother, Milton, was president of the university. Two things...
View ArticleDeliberating #PSUGenEd
Today we embark upon an exciting new phase of the General Education reform process at Penn State. After more than a year of conversations and discussion, we are now in a position to engage in serious...
View ArticleReturning to an Integrated Gen Ed Approach at Penn State
By the summer of 1954, the students at Penn State had grown impatient. The world had settled into a Cold War, the nuclear arms race threatened total annihilation, and the students felt unprepared to...
View ArticleThe Liberal Arts Endeavor: Thick Collegiality and General Education
In this introduction to issues 1-2 of volume 66 of the Journal of General Education, Sophia Pavlos and I articulate of the meaning and importance of thick collegiality for the Journal of General...
View ArticleAGLS Keynote – Practicing the Arts of Liberty
At the heart of my keynote address to the 2018 Association of General and Liberal Studies in Pittsburgh, PA is this idea: The intellectual and ethical habits we need to transform higher education are...
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