What is an Educated Person? Making the Case for Liberal Arts Learning
Day: Monday, November 15, 2021
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Palmetto 8
First Learning Outcome: Participants will learn key pandemic messages regarding higher education and learn how these messages reveal our reputation and cultural product knowledge
Second Learning Outcome: Participants will learn how to analyze their institutional communications using a root cause framework
Third Learning Outcome: Participants will work in collaborative groups to explore opportunity discovery regarding the value of liberal learning
Core Competencies: Holistic and Systemic Thinking, Problem Solving
Proficiencies: Enrollment Management: SEM Leadership, Records & Acad. Svcs.: Academic Policy and Curriculum Delivery
Intended Audience: General Audience
What is an Educated Person? Making the Case for Liberal Arts Learning
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Description
While we were still trying to decide what to call a novel new virus, publications made pandemic-related predictions ranging from an acceleration of the closure of rural colleges to an extinction-level event for all higher education. This session explores how our response to Covid reveals what we think constitutes education and presents an approach to how we might articulate liberal learning in terms that connect with our students and further justice.
Presenter(s):
Anne Thurmer Minnesota State Community and Technical College