Two articles I have read recently rev my mental engines on higher education. Warning: a rant looms. Like getting caught in a whirlpool, two major opinions go round and round in higher education: 1. We’re losing the liberal arts and
Semi-Final Thoughts: Bad Choices and Divine Revelation
(For the next few months, I have added responsibilities in my work at Southern Methodist University. Hence, my blogging will be even more spasmodic than usual for a while.) Fearing Moral Talk With this post I’ll bring to a
Choices and Inclinations 2: Imparting a Moral Vision
This post is the third in a little series on college students and the worrisome choices they make. I’ve been thinking about the naive anthropology (theorizing about human beings, what we’re made of, how we’re designed, what are our problems
Why We’re Dealing a Bad Hand
The “Why” of Bad Institutional Policy Officially, institutions of higher learning don’t care what college students do in their private lives, “after hours,” on their own time. I say institutionally, because, of course, most people who work in higher education
Choices and Inclinations
As I look at the title of this post, I can’t but think of Jane Austen. Given her interest in the emotional life, that reference may be more than coincidental. In parents’, teachers’, professors’ and Student Life staffs’ conversations, it