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The following article appears in the Fall\/Winter 2018 issue of Third + Broadway magazine<\/a>, scheduled for delivery in early December. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the invention of the alphabet, technologies have shaped how we learn, communicate and interact with the world around us. Where would the liberal arts be without paper, pens or the printing press? How would we share ideas if not for the invention of the telephone, the airplane or the internet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As technology evolves at a dizzying pace in the 21st century, the liberal arts have had to reckon with what it means to be a free thinker and a problem solver. Today we have infinite ways to observe life\u2019s big questions and no shortage of means to discover their answers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlocking those methods is at the heart of the mission of Transylvania\u2019s new Digital Liberal Arts initiative. Launched in the fall of 2017, the initiative is arming students and faculty with powerful tools\u2014not just to teach them to be \u201ctechy,\u201d but to help them to effectively make connections, keep up with innovation and enhance the entire academic experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students use the dArt Lab, which is equipped with studio-quality music recording equipment and audio\/video software.<\/em>
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\u201cPeople hear \u2018Digital Liberal Arts\u2019 and think that it\u2019s a departure from traditional liberal education,\u201d says writing, rhetoric, and communication professor Kerri Hauman, who chairs the DLA initiative along with music technology professor Tim Polashek. \u201cBut the digital age is already here. This is just recognizing the qualities of liberal education to ask big questions about humanity and values and being productive citizens of the world\u2014that\u2019s still what we\u2019re doing. We just need to be really good at making sure those types of questions are at the forefront of technological innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So once Hauman and Polashek received their first grant from the Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching, they began searching for how digital technologies could serve Transy\u2019s mission. They started by meeting with academic programs all over campus, from nearly every discipline, and asking, \u201cWhat are you doing in your classrooms, and how can we help?\u201d Those simple questions led to some eye-opening discoveries. Many of the programs that, at first glance, aren\u2019t associated with digital technology, have already begun these discussions in their curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conversation with the sociology department revealed that sociology professor Brian Rich has been teaching a course on social media and mass culture for years. Spanish professors were interested in having students produce video projects. Over and over, the pair heard from faculty that they had never considered a Digital Liberal Arts initiative could make a real difference in their own classrooms, but then the ideas kept flowing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a lot more people thinking about digital technologies critically in their teaching,\u201d says Polashek. \u201cWe\u2019re not requiring anybody to do anything, but rather we want to support faculty where they are. There is a lot of discussion for more support for quantitative learning and expression. A lot of that involves analysis and manipulation of data. We want all of our students to get better at that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Hauman and Polashek gathered information on campus, they began searching off campus for ideas that could work for Transylvania. They talked with other schools who had set up Digital Liberal Arts centers to see what they were doing. They spoke with local companies who were interested in partnering with Transylvania in the effort. And they went through a training program at Miami University to learn to lead Faculty Learning Communities, semester-long discussion and training groups where professors learn how to incorporate digital technologies into their teaching and brainstorm ways to implement them. They held the first learning community in winter term 2018 and worked with a consultant from the University of Kentucky\u2019s Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching to help lead the group and develop the projects the professors worked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, a second Bingham grant was funding upgrades to technologies all around campus. The renovation of the Carpenter Academic Center allowed for the installation of new classroom technologies like Mondopads, large screens that function as individual computers. They allow for 4K video, web browsing, collaborative presentations, video conferencing and more. After visiting KET, Polashek designed a video capture studio complete with a camera, lights and a green screen that was installed in the basement of Cowgill, as was a full podcasting studio. The Digital Art Lab was upgraded with new computers and professional software, as well as studio-quality music recording equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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French professor Brian Arganbright uses a Mondopad for a video chat during his May term course.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In July, Transy hired Gabrielle Read Jasnoff as digital content and technology integration specialist. Her position, also funded by a Bingham grant, is meant to ease the transition to digital technologies and help train faculty on how to use all the new gear. She has already worked with this term\u2019s Faculty Learning Community, as well as several other faculty members on how to use the Mondopads and where they can integrate other digital technologies into the curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI try to encourage not just replacing technology,\u201d Jasnoff says. \u201cIt\u2019s not just using a Mondopad instead of a whiteboard, but rather what can a Mondopad do that we couldn\u2019t have done with a whiteboard? What can we do to increase that collaborative interaction and experience for the students?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen students get out in the real world with their careers, they\u2019re interacting with these technologies in so many different ways. It\u2019s important to prepare them for interacting with the tools they need to be successful in their lives after Transy. It\u2019s important to give them exposure and the skills that will make them stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Staff of the Rambler student newspaper record a podcast in the new studio in Cowgill.<\/em>
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Even though the initiative is just beginning its second year, the benefits to the students are already taking shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hauman connected junior Will Shelton with Patrick Lewis \u201906, managing editor of scholarly resources and publications at the Kentucky Historical Society, who is working on the Civil War Governors of Kentucky project, which is digitizing tens of thousands of historical documents related to Kentucky\u2019s three Civil War governors and creating digital resources for teachers and historians. Shelton started an internship with KHS to help with the project in September. He\u2019s aiding in the research and annotating the documents online, and eventually the history major will be able to help put the pieces together by blogging and creating lesson materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really like the idea of making history accessible,\u201d he says. \u201cFor people to see their own lives reflected in something from the past is really cool. It\u2019s taking all this dense material and turning it into something that can be accessible to teachers, to universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything is digital. Being able to do research and know how to use all the different web resources is really important. If I\u2019m going to go into this field, I\u2019m going to need the experience and knowledge to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Digital Liberal Arts initiative continues to influence more of the campus, Hauman and Polashek expect the community to take its role in educating students to heart and for Transylvania to be a leader in integrating the liberal arts and technology in this age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Digital\u2019 is a complicated term, and \u2018the liberal arts\u2019 is a complicated phrase,\u201d Hauman says. \u201cBut we\u2019re purposefully putting these two complicated ideas together because we believe it\u2019s important for digital culture and liberal education to inform each other. Eventually we\u2019ll be able to drop the word \u2018digital\u2019 because it will just be what we\u2019re doing here.\u201d   
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