Publications
An Election Recess in 1970
Part of our cluster on elections and higher education.
When Morgan State Went Public
"The college must be vocational and liberal."
Do I have to curate my Zoom background for the fall of 2020?
Shouldn’t we take “liberal” out of “liberal arts”, because some people think that means “politically liberal”?
Stay and Fight: The Look of Liberal Education
Burke Commonplace
Programs + Projects
Courses
Courses and the curriculum as a whole are at the heart of the Aydelotte Foundation’s mission.
Faculty Research Seminars
AF workshops aim to develop skills and techniques and to enrich our capacity for collaborative inquiry.
Aydelotte Consultancy
We are exploring the creation of a consultancy practice that will draw upon the institutional knowledge and insight of experienced faculty across academia.
Public Writing
The Aydelotte Foundation was charged at its creation with encouraging faculty and administrators to enter more vigorously and creatively into public conversations about liberal arts education and its future.
Active Research Projects
Read updates on our research interests, including open questions and difficult problems that we are grappling with.
AF Second Tuesday Cafe
All faculty and staff are invited to come together for a light lunch and some learning. Talks are aimed at a general audience and include plenty of time for Q&A.
News
Welcome to our new Associate Director, Andy Hines!
The Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College invites you to join a public writing-focused working group that engages with the challenges of this moment for academic professionals. If you are interested in joining us in writing and thinking about teaching and researching in the rupture, please send a brief, informal statement of interest (250 words or less) to ahines1@swarthmore.edu by Monday, November 2nd.
Events
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We are so excited that we begin this week with @hinesaj as our new Associate Director! Upwards and onwards!
Every year, I run the @EdNCES IPEDS numbers to see how US humanities majors are changing in the US; here's a quick rundown for 2019. Blog post here: http://benschmidt.org/post/2020-08-26/college-majors-2019-update/. Most fields are falling, but philosophy the first uptick for any large major since 2009.
This is one reason that we think our focus on inquiring into liberal education is important: higher education needs to engage in self-examination that is not bound up inside a specialized field of scholarly production--though that work is also very important. https://twitter.com/phillipdawson/status/1295687231282192384
