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Tag Archives: Phi Beta Kappa
College: Are We Paying, Investing, or Building Endowment?
Next fall, October 17-19 to be precise, Phi Beta Kappa will partner with the American Conference of Academic Deans in a conference with a question for a title: “Is There a Case for the Liberal Arts?” We pose the query … Continue reading
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Tagged ACAD, American Conference of Academic Deans, Bill Bennett, cost, economy, Florida, higher education, humanities, increase, Indiana, job-seekers, jobs, John Churchill, liberal arts, Liberal Education, Mitch Daniels, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, Pat McCrory, PBK, Perdue, Phi Beta Kappa, Teagle Foundation, tuition, vocational training, W. Robert Connor
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The Dominion of Folly
It was Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-1941, who explained, at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Alpha of Rhode Island chapter at Brown University, that Phi Beta Kappa’s celebration of liberal education “signifies freedom … Continue reading
Exactly?
You overhear things. Not so long ago, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I overheard a guy telling his companion, as we bypassed each other on the sidewalk: “My cousin is a veterinarian in Melbourne, Australia.” OK. Why was that worth conveying? What … Continue reading
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Tagged higher education, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa
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In Praise of Hard Reading
Over the entree at the Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Dinner, April 6, 2013, I got a foretaste of Jim O’Donnell’s talk when I asked him if he had looked at Peter Brown’s recent book, Through the Eye of a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, Book Awards, Christian Gauss Award, Christopher Krebs, Georgetown University, higher education, humanities, Jim O'Donnell, John Churchill, Liberal Education, PBK, Peter Brown, Phi Beta Kappa, Through the Eye of a Needle
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Serendipity
A colleague showed me pictures from her cousin’s wedding, and we fell into a conversation about nuptiality. I will spare the specifics, but it was about the impulse to marry. This, then, deftly evading thought about the Wife of Bath, … Continue reading
If You Exit Past This Sign, You Must Re-enter. . . .
“No! I don’t have to re-enter!” I protested in silence. “My aim is to leave this airport as expeditiously as possible and to stay away as long as I possibly can. Till day after tomorrow!” Let me be fair. The … Continue reading
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Tagged higher education, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, linguistics, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa
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Know Thyself. Or Maybe, If You’re the Senate, Not So Much!
On March 20, 2013, the U.S. Senate reached a compromise said to have eased progress toward enacting a budget for the fiscal year that is now about half over. Prescind from the question what that timing shows about the level … Continue reading
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to spend the better part of a day with a collection of people who care deeply about the liberal arts and sciences. They were heads of various agencies in the Dupont Circle … Continue reading
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Tagged AAC&U, AAU, ACE, APLU, CIC, higher education, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, NAICU, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa
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Dinner with a Friend
The other night I had a conversation over dinner with an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. Our professional paths had crossed for decades when we were small college deans—I in Arkansas, and he in Minnesota and then the … Continue reading
American Tragedy
I have spent a fair bit of time reading and discussing tragedy with first-year college students. I well remember the gooseflesh on my arms one day as we talked about the scene in The Agamemnon where Clytemnestra wheels out the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Greek, gun violence, guns, John Churchill, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa, tragedy
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