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Big History As General Education, Nicola Pitchford, Mojgan Behmand

Office of Academic Affairs

A presentation on the emerging discipline "Big History" and how it could be integrated into the general education curriculum, using the First Year Experience at Dominican University of California as an example.

100th Convocation 2014 Address - Amazing Mice Light Up The Liberal Arts, Marc Zimmer

Convocation Addresses

Connecticut College Professor of Chemistry Marc Zimmer states, "I like to think of our educational system as an intellectual maze. New students, you are standing at the entrance of this fantastic maze, a lush and verdant garden maze..."

He concludes: "We are all, faculty, students and staff tremendously privileged to be sitting here at the entrance of the amazing maze of learning."

Learning To Lead In The Liberal Arts, Thomas S. Mach, Kevin F. Sims

History and Government Faculty Publications

The liberal arts include the arts and sciences - fields that introduce students to general knowledge and develop the basic intellectual skills that are needed to succeed in our society.

Diversity In Times Of Austerity: Documenting Resistance In The Academy, David Moscowitz, Terri Jett, Terri Carney, Tamara Leech, Ann M. Savage

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back to the hierarchy of the family, the academy likewise reduces its footprint in interdisciplinary structures and contains academic feminists back to the hierarchy of departments and disciplines. When the family and the department become powerful arbiters of cultural values, women and feminist academics by and large suffer: they either accept a diminished role or are pushed to compete in a system they recognize as antithetical …