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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University, an early leader in liberal arts education, will host the annual faculty seminar titled” Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept,” July 15-18. The 17 seminar participants were selected from a pool of applicants from prominent liberal arts colleges throughout the country. They reflect the diversity within the professorate at liberal arts colleges and include faculty members from Pomona, Smith, Middlebury, Washington and Lee, St. John’s, Asbury and Earlham. Seminar sessions include “The Historical Background to the Contemporary Debates,” “The Classical Tradition in the 20th Century: Robert Maynard Hutchins,” “The Rival Tradition: John Dewey,” “The Classical Tradition Redux: Allan Bloom” and “The Purposes of Liberal Education: Varieties of Individual Development.” Participants are asked to consider the application of liberal education principles to enhance their own effectiveness as college and university teachers – in the classroom, in the preparation of course offerings and in the construction of curricula at their academic institutions. John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and professor of politics at Pomona College, will give the opening address, “The Liberal Arts as a Coal Mine: Assessing the Canary’s Cough.” The plenary speaker is Randall Bartlett, professor of economics at Smith College. His address is titled “Liberal Education in a Technological Age.” Through this seminar, Transylvania University and its Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching seeks to contribute to a national conversation on the idea of liberal education and the mission of the liberal

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Three Transylvania University publications were honored at the Public Relations Society of America-Thoroughbred Chapter awards ceremony in May. “Transylvania” magazine and a “Transylvania Treasures” postcard packet received first place awards, while “Transylvania Treasures,” a publication that highlights items in the university’s Special Collections and Moosnick Medical and Science Museum, received second place. PRSA is the world’s largest organization for public relations professionals. This is the second award for “Transylvania Treasures” postcards this year. In January, they received an award of special merit in a competition sponsored by District III of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. These awards were chosen from more than 700 entries submitted by colleges in nine states in the southeast U.S. The unique postcard package replicates the front covers of the first five issues of “Transylvania Treasures” and was mailed with the summer 2009 issue. They are the work of Transylvania publications director Martha Baker of Paris and Carin Lovell of By Design, Lexington.   “Transylvania” magazine is produced three times a year by the university’s publications staff, which included Baker, writer/editor William Bowden, graphic designer Barbara Grinnell and editorial assistant Lori-Lyn Hurley, all of Lexington. “These awards confirm that our publications compare favorably to work produced by business, industry, professional associations, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and consulting firms,” said Sarah Emmons, Transylvania public relations director. “I’m very proud of them.” Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution of higher

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