Can Faculty Learn from a Broadway Musical
An article that first appeared in the July 4, 2010 e-edition of the Technology Section of The Chronicle of Higher Education was repeated in the July 9, 2010 e-edition of Academe Today. The article was...
View ArticleRelief Through Reading Part I
I am sorry, Readers, but I am going to subject you to a long, round about introduction to a posting about reading. It was inspired by two recent posts by bloggers that I have come to appreciated...
View ArticleRelief Through Reading – Part II
For my first excursion after many years into what I thought would be recreational reading, I chose a book I saw on the New York Times Best Sellers List that sounded interesting. It was a novel by Emma...
View ArticleTeamwork is Critical: Learning with and from Others
One of the blessings of my current physical situation has been the opportunity to nventory anbooks on the d catalogue more than forty years of collected files and academy. While working full-time I...
View ArticleGeneral Education and Turf Wars
The National Endowment for the Humanities begin their booklet “50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students” with a quote by Mark Van Doren from Liberal Education: “The one intolerable thing in...
View ArticleLiving in a metaphoric world and trying to communicate with the academy
I found two articles published this past July very significant and helpful. The first was an article in the Epilepsy Advocate magazine about Chris M., a minister and author, who found he was thinking...
View ArticleReading through the Week–Part I: Introduction
In the January 2012 issue of Christianity Today Alan Jacobs, Professor of English at Wheaton College and author of the recently released Oxford University Press book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age...
View ArticleWeeping over Books
Yesterday was a hard day as My wife and I prepared to down size and pack to move to be closer to our family. We went through about half of my library and we culled over two hundred books that we are...
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