Susanna Ashton (Clemson) presented on how she teaches Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Percival Everett’s James.
Cornerstone grantees Wesley Beal (Lyon College) and Ted Hadzi-Antich, Jr. (Austin Community College) discuss what makes general education meaningful.
Austin Community College's Great Questions program effectively engages students around life's most fundamnetal questions, and demonstrates the growing importance of community colleges in the liberal arts' future.
We can translate the crisis in the humanities into an opportunity to reach students across our campuses with full-time faculty and to integrate our disciplines into the life of our university, and most importantly, to enrich the lives of our students.
The students become not just active collaborators in learning, but the driving force. And it’s really, really remarkable to see students initially hesitant leaving feeling full of confidence.