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Mastering The Digital Age: How The Liberal Arts Can Turn Technology Into Progress, Caleb Hamman

Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest

2010 Topic: "The Importance of the Liberal Arts in a Digital Age"

The immediacy and ease of publication is fraught with pitfalls and potential issues that provide new challenges for the next generation of readers, writers, and thinkers. Consider the place of your liberal arts education in this mix and write an essay in which you analyze how that education has better prepared you as a consumer of, contributor to, and critic of the texts that flow from new media outlets.

Hope In The Himalayas: The Strongest Men I Know, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for The Chrysalis Reader about an avalanche in the Nepal Himalayas in October 1999.

The Man On The Bike Told The Truth: Adventure In Belize, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Real Travel Adventures about the author’s experiences diving in Belize.

Learning The Art Of Creation, Farhad Anearzai

Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest

2009 Topic: Imagine that you had an hour to spend with President-elect Obama and your task was to make sure he understood the nature and value of a liberal arts education. What would you say to him?

Dear President Obama: The Importance Of The Liberal Arts In Our Changeable World, Michelle E. Skinner

Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest

2009 Topic: Imagine that you had an hour to spend with President-elect Obama and your task was to make sure he understood the nature and value of a liberal arts education. What would you say to him?

The Liberal Arts As A Way Of Being Humane, Mike Meginnis

Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest

2008 Topic:

The Reach for Coherence: The Value of Complementarity Among the Sciences and Humanities in Your Liberal Education

Coaching The Game Of Life, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Faith & Fitness Magazine about the fundamental lessons a coach should teach.

The Glory Of County Roads, Betsy Shirley

Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest

2007 Topic:

What is the value of a liberal arts education in the 21st century?

Three Romanian Postcards, Ania Spyra

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Whether in memory of some ancient fertility rites, or because of the International Women‟s Day on the eight of the month, March is considered women‟s month in Romania.

Marooned!, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Chicago Magazine about the terrible University of Chicago football team in the mid-1970s.

The Lighter Side Of Rectal Surgery, Ed Friel

Butler University Books

Sixteen chapters of light, laugh out loud reading; a book that looks at "The Lighter Side" of the insults that life deals all of us. If you have ever faced surgery of any kind, had too much to drink in public, or had a miserable flying experience, you will identify with the situations Ed describes.

The Beige Place, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Nonfiction essay published in The Texas Observer, November 11, 1994.