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Liberal Education And Civic Engagement, Richard Warch
Liberal Education And Civic Engagement, Richard Warch
Presidential Addresses
The Matriculation Convocation is the traditional start of the academic year. President Warch used many of his Convocation addresses to articulate the values and virtues of liberal learning.
Interview With Salvatore Ciolino, July 9, 2002, Salvatore Ciolino, Michael J. Birkner
Interview With Salvatore Ciolino, July 9, 2002, Salvatore Ciolino, Michael J. Birkner
Oral Histories
Salvatore Ciolino was interviewed on July 9, 2002 by Michael Birkner about his time at Gettysburg College when Charles Glassick was president. He discussed his position as director of Financial Aid during the 1970's-1980's.
Length of Interview: 73 minutes
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit …
The Bodger Dialogues, Richard P. Richter
The Bodger Dialogues, Richard P. Richter
Publications
This is an account of Ursinus College during the period 1965-1994, told in a literary format by former President Richard P. Richter in 2002.
Philosophizing With Teenagers, Susan Verducci
Philosophizing With Teenagers, Susan Verducci
Faculty Publications
Part of a special section on connecting with adolescents. Although few adolescents are ever formally exposed to philosophy at middle or high school, almost all are philosophers in the sense that they ask and seek answers to questions that are fundamentally philosophical. Furthermore, studying philosophy can be quite useful for adolescents as it requires that they practice developing clear and coherent reasons for believing or doing something, provides the tools with which they can follow the logic of any ideological stance, and provides models of alternative answers and a way of examining how the historical period in which one lives …