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Commentaries, essays, interviews and musings from Aydelotte staff and commissioned authors.

Do I have to curate my Zoom background for the fall of 2020?

Twelve Meanings of Liberal Arts

Definitions of Liberal Arts (and some tags to go with them), as seen in public culture and institutional discourse.
Twelve Meanings of Liberal Arts
Do I have to curate my Zoom background for the fall of 2020?

What We Talked About When We Talked About Talking

When the Aydelotte started, we wanted to know: do faculty here still want to talk with each other across departmental and disciplinary lines about our intellectual work, our scholarship, our ideas?
What We Talked About When We Talked About Talking
Do I have to curate my Zoom background for the fall of 2020?

I suspect that not all of my students are doing all of the reading all the time. What should I do about this?

I suspect that not all of my students are doing all of the reading all the time. What should I do about this?
Do I have to curate my Zoom background for the fall of 2020?

Do I have to curate my Zoom background for the fall of 2020?

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”?

Shouldn’t we take “liberal” out of “liberal arts”, because some people think that means “politically liberal”?

Shouldn’t we take “liberal” out of “liberal arts”, because some people think that means “politically liberal”?
Teaching in Public

Teaching in Public

In favor of producing our own archival traces
Teaching in Public
Stay and Fight: The Look of Liberal Education

Stay and Fight: The Look of Liberal Education

Burke Commonplace
Stay and Fight: The Look of Liberal Education
A Guide to the Discourse About Liberal Education

A Guide to the Discourse About Liberal Education

Some of our observations on the discursive categories we've identified.
A Guide to the Discourse About Liberal Education
The General Education Committee: A Game

The General Education Committee: A Game

A whimsical exploration of how general education requirements get shaped in faculty deliberations.
The General Education Committee: A Game
Twelve Meanings of Liberal Arts

Twelve Meanings of Liberal Arts

Definitions of Liberal Arts (and some tags to go with them), as seen in public culture and institutional discourse.
Twelve Meanings of Liberal Arts
We’ve gone from twenty majors a few years ago to eight. I am really worried. Is this normal?

We’ve gone from twenty majors a few years ago to eight. I am really worried. Is this normal?

Don't panic. Yet.
We’ve gone from twenty majors a few years ago to eight. I am really worried. Is this normal?
My colleagues told me that Engineering isn’t “liberal arts”…

My colleagues told me that Engineering isn’t “liberal arts”…

Are They Right?
My colleagues told me that Engineering isn’t “liberal arts”…
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