LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University, an early leader in liberal arts education, will host a faculty seminar titled Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept, July 26-29. The 17 seminar participants were selected from a pool of over 50 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 College, Hamilton College and Washington & Lee University among others. <\/p>\n
\nSeminar sessions include \u201cAlternate Concepts of Liberal Education,\u201d \u201cHistorical Evolution of Liberal Education\u201d and \u201cThe Purposes of Liberal Education: Varieties of Individual Development and Social Engagement.\u201d Participants are asked to consider the application of liberal education principles to enhance their own effectiveness as college and university teachers \u2013 in the classroom, in the preparation of course offerings and in the construction of curricula at their academic institutions. <\/p>\n
\nMargaret Anderson, professor of biology at Smith College, will give the opening address, \u201cThe Sciences Are Also Liberal Arts.\u201d The plenary speaker is John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. His address is entitled, \u201cWhat Matters Most? Liberal Arts Education in Perilous Times.\u201d\t<\/p>\n
\nThrough 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 arts college in twenty-first century America. <\/p>\n
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LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University, an early leader in liberal arts education, will host a faculty seminar titled Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept, July 26-29. The 17 seminar participants were selected from a pool of over 50 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 College, Hamilton College and Washington & Lee University among others. Seminar sessions include \u201cAlternate Concepts of Liberal Education,\u201d \u201cHistorical Evolution of Liberal Education\u201d and \u201cThe Purposes of Liberal Education: Varieties of Individual Development and Social Engagement.\u201d Participants are asked to consider the application of liberal education principles to enhance their own effectiveness as college and university teachers \u2013 in the classroom, in the preparation of course offerings and in the construction of curricula at their academic institutions. Margaret Anderson, professor of biology at Smith College, will give the opening address, \u201cThe Sciences Are Also Liberal Arts.\u201d The plenary speaker is John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. His address is entitled, \u201cWhat Matters Most? Liberal Arts Education in Perilous Times.\u201d 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 arts college<\/p>\n