{"id":68,"date":"2019-01-24T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/?p=68"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:10:07","slug":"blogging-again-from-aacu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/2019\/01\/24\/blogging-again-from-aacu\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging again… from AAC&U"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m resurrecting the Dean\u2019s Bookshelf and blogging from the 2019 AAC&U in Atlanta. The opening plenary panel was focused on \u201cCode Switching: Making the Case for Liberal Education Amidst Critics, Skeptics, and Trolls.\u201d Some highlights:<\/p>\n

Brandon Busteed<\/strong>, President of Kaplan University Partners and formerly of Gallup, argued that we have a branding problem. We should stop using the term \u201cliberal arts,\u201d which prospective students don\u2019t understand (\u201cI\u2019m not liberal or artistic\u201d) and start unpacking what the liberal arts do: \u201cbroadly prepare students for success,\u201d help solve \u201cunscripted problems,\u201d etc\u2026. A summary of an argument can be founded here: https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/gallup\/216275\/higher-education-drop-term-liberal-arts.aspx . He also stressed something that I have been hammering home: the importance of critical importance of internships for all students, especially those in the liberal arts: https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/gallup\/222497\/why-colleges-internships-requirement.aspx . We should be selling a \u201c’universal education’ coupled with practical experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gail Mellow<\/strong>, the president of CUNY\u2019s LaGuardia Community College talked about her diverse student body that yearns for the American Dream but does not have a rich understanding of what that could be. If she had a magic wand, she would require every faculty members go out into the community to tell stories of student transformation through higher education.<\/p>\n

Eboo Patel,<\/strong> Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core (sic), invoked Alisdair MacIntyre\u2019s notion that the colleges \u201cinitiate students into conflict.\u201d Only the liberal arts can prepare students for living in a religiously, culturally, and politically diverse America.<\/p>\n

In sum: drop the jargon, embrace the role of liberal education in a pluralistic democracy, connect with students, communities, and their needs, and above all keep telling our story whenever and wherever we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m resurrecting the Dean\u2019s Bookshelf and blogging from the 2019 AAC&U in Atlanta. The opening plenary panel was focused on \u201cCode Switching: Making the Case for Liberal Education Amidst Critics, Skeptics, and Trolls.\u201d Some highlights: Brandon Busteed, President of Kaplan University Partners and formerly of Gallup, argued that we have a branding problem. We should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}