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Liberal Education
Winter 2008, Vol. 94, No. 1
The Future of Interdisciplinary Studies
This issue considers the role of interdisciplinary studies within the academy, in general, and within the undergraduate curriculum, in particular. Also included are articles on the transformative power of art, a liberal education "scorecard," "inside-out" leadership, international education and Middle East development, general education metaphors, an innovative community-based research course, and Rachel Carson as an exemplar of the liberally educated citizen.
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CONTENTS:
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President’s Message
A Different Take on Excellence
By Carol Geary Schneider
“Making excellence inclusive” challenges us to focus on what it would take to help all students, including those who start much farther behind, develop and demonstrate the learning outcomes that are essential in every sphere of life.
From the Editor
News and Information
FEATURED TOPIC
Interdisciplinary Studies at a Crossroads
By Ethan Kleinberg
Is the very success of interdisciplinary studies leading to their demise, and are they displacing and discrediting the traditional disciplines along the way?
Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning: An Alternative to Traditional Majors and Minors
By Robert J. Sternberg
Is it now time to think seriously about alternatives to the traditional undergraduate majors and minors that, in the large majority of cases, are focused on just a single field of inquiry?
PERSPECTIVES
The Transformative Power of Art
By Dana Gioia
There is only one social force in America potentially large and strong enough to counterbalance the profit-driven commercialization of cultural values, and that is our educational system—especially public education.
The Liberal Education Scorecard
By Michael R. Wick and Andrew T. Phillips
The scorecard is a visual tool that supports both intentionality and accountability in the design of student-centered programs of study. It can be used to guide the evolution of disciplinary experts into liberal educators.
Inside-Out Leadership
By Larry A. Braskamp and Jon F. Wergin
Until the academy reframes both the definition of academic leaders and the expectations of them, leadership roles will not attract those who are most capable of fulfilling them.
The Importance of International Education to Development in the Middle East
By Mark S. Ward
Approximately twenty thousand students, representing more than seventy nationalities and most of the world’s confessional groups, are attending classes at the four American universities in the Middle East this year. Among them are the future leaders of their societies and the world.
The Metaphors We Gen-Ed By
By Laurence Musgrove
Defining metaphors present useful ways of conceptualizing general education reform and the collegiality required to sustain it. The trick is to know which ones to live and work by.
BONNER SERIES ON STUDENT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Downtown: A Community-Campus Collaborative Course to Prepare Students for Community-Based Research
By Elizabeth L. Paul
Through their participation in the Trenton Youth Community-Based Research Corps at the College of New Jersey, undergraduate students learn to be partners, citizens, and public scholars.
MY VIEW
Heating Up Liberal Education
By James Guignard
The example set by the biologist, writer, and environmentalist Rachel Carson illustrates what’s best about a liberal education put into practice.
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