WKU Honors Today/This Week: Early Registration, Forensics Showcase, Passport,...
New: Last Advising Workshop to get early registration (starting April 10): Tue, Apr 2, 8pm, MMTH 232 Forensics Team Showcase, Sat, Mar 30, 7.30pm, FAC Recital Hall Passport Info Day, Thu, Apr 4,...
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Welcome to the global remix
TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 10-14, 2013 We are in the midst of a global remix. Disciplines merge and cross-pollinate. Technology intrudes into biology and society. Power and...
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Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can...
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 3, 2013 Art is something that you encounter and you know it’s in a different kind of space from the rest of your life, but is directly connected to it.
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Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana, Harvard Education Press, 2011 The authors are directors of the appropriately named Right Question Institute (RQI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Isn’t this the single...
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Your Brain on Study Abroad: The Experience Changes Lives, and Neurons, a...
Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31, 2013 (subscription required) Closely related: Interacting with international students develops many important skills (June 13, 2013) This is a...
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Honors faculty & students presenting at conference: 21st Century Citizens:...
This conference goes to the heart of HON 251 Citizen & Self, and Dr. Elizabeth Gish and two of her former students and teaching assistants, Kaitlyn Dickinson and Phil Pearson, will present a paper...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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....
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