Clik here to view.
The Future of the Humanities: Cross-disciplinary, collaborative & engaged
Doesn’t this sound like the future of liberal arts and honors education more generally? This is a collection of recent reflections on the potential and challenges of the humanities. For some context,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AASHE Conference 2013: Resiliency & Adaptation
North America’s largest higher education sustainability conference! Nashville, TN, October 6-9, 2013 I am so very pleased to announce that WKU will be a sponsor of the Association for the Advancement...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interacting with international students develops many important skills
See our previous post on how study abroad not only changes your life, but also your brain & why culture shock is good for you! Two researchers at Duke found that regular interaction with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one...
Thanks Kelly Madole and Elizabeth Gish for pointing that out to me. Every once in a while, I have the irresistible urge to post something funny or at least silly. Being German, loving philosophy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where is the spirit at home?
Annie Dillard on presence over productivity & Pico Iyer on where home is The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. (cf....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The secret to learning anything: Joy & flow
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 14, 2013 Einstein’s experience and advice is very similar to what US-Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, has coined as ‘flow‘ – a person’s joyfully full...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Virtual Student Foreign Service eInternship with the US Department of State...
The Virtual Student Foreign Service is part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can We Move Beyond the MOOC to Reclaim Open Learning?
Interesting critique of MOOCs and reflection on the potential of open learning and how to optimize it by Anya Kamenetz, Journalist at Fast Company and author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se” (Charles Eames)
Here’s to the birthday of Charles Eames — legendary furniture designer, deft universe-explainer, celebrated champion of design as a force of culture, creative genius of uncommon sincerity, honesty,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The highest result of education is tolerance” (Helen Keller)
More by Helen Keller on optimism.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Record number of students, recent graduates earn national scholarships
A record number of WKU students and recent graduates were recognized in prestigious national scholarship competitions in 2012-13. To date, 31 WKU students and recent graduates were successful in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What employers really want
What employers really want from students is not what too many in higher education still think that they want. As a result of this misperception, students are not as well prepared as they could be....
View ArticleClik here to view.
“I like it when my students cry”– No Learning Without Feeling
Claire Needell Hollander, New York Times Sunday Review, June 8, 2013 The author is an English teacher at a public middle school in Manhattan and the author of the young adult novel “Something Right...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More is Better: The Impact of Study Abroad Program Duration
Mary M. Dwyer, President & CEO, IES Abroad Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, vol. X, Fall 2004 (pdf) The title says it all: This study finds that the longer students study...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unintentional Knowledge: What we find when we are not looking
Julio Alves (director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning and of the Writing Program at Smith College), The Chronicle Review, June 23, 2013 Most of our knowledge is incidental and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Study abroad is but one way to globalize students’ perspective
Mark Salisbury, director of institutional research and assessment at Augustana College Illinois, argues that too many in study abroad still put the cart before the horse, and that it is high time to...
View ArticleKentucky Honors Roundtable, UK, Lexington, Feb 15-16, 2013
Great opportunity for any Honors student to present his/her CE/T or other research/creative project! Free! (registration, transportation, hotel & main meals included) If you are interested or have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Art in Motion
(Source: Email from Joon Sung, Associate Professor, Depart of Art, Dec 7, 2012)
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reach Week, Student Research Conference & great speakers Sarah Vowell and Dr....
This is a great opportunity to present your CE/T or other research/creative project! The deadline to submit a proposal is this Friday! March 23: Student Research Conference Deadline for proposals: Feb...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Presenting at the Kentucky Honors Roundtable (KHR) at UK this Saturday, Feb...
We are very excited about the four students who will present their CE/Ts tomorrow at KHR in Lexington. KHR is one of several great opportunities each semester to share your work in progress, gain...
View Article