{"id":14,"date":"2018-01-18T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/?p=14"},"modified":"2018-01-26T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T17:47:57","slug":"new-years-resolution-start-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/2018\/01\/18\/new-years-resolution-start-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Resolutions, New Semesters, Strategic Planning, & Other New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the College of Arts and Sciences embarks upon a strategic planning process and contemplates its future, I thought it would be helpful to share articles, books, thought-pieces, blog posts, etc. on higher education that I have found to be enlightening and\/or provocative. (This was one of my New Year’s resolutions.)<\/p>\n

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A recurring theme in these posts will be the future of the liberal arts in higher education and at Seton Hall. As I have said publicly on numerous occasions, it is important that we speak confidently and unapologetically about the importance of a liberal education–an education that fosters critical thinking, creativity, human flourishing, and the common good–without simply “preaching to the choir.” Quite bluntly, we need to a better job of explaining what we do and why ot is relevant.<\/p>\n

For this inaugural blog post, I’m linking to two articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> that encourage us to think differently about thinking:<\/p>\n