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The Purpose of Education

Reimagining the Sacred & the Cool: A Literary Symposium (Highlighting Community)

February 24, 2017 by ESN Announce No Comments

Missing Books and Culture? Want to have awesome conversations about literature and faith? Wishing you could hang out in a cool Christian study center this spring? Our friends at Upper House, a Christian study center in Madison, Wisconsin, have a way to address all three of those longings.

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Books, Christ and the Academy, Partners, Public Intellectuals, Science Corner, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: Christian study centers, Highlighting Community, literature, Upper House

Writing as a Spiritual Discipline: Limits and Creation

February 5, 2017 by Brandon Spun 2 Comments

What do the films Funny Farm, Throw Mamma from the Train, and The Shining have in common?

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Devotional, Life in the Academy, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: devotional, life in the academy, The Purpose of Education, Writing As a Spiritual Discipline, Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Spring 2017 Series

Book Review: Undisciplining Knowledge, by Harvey J. Graff

June 3, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Summary: This is a historical study of interdisciplinary efforts in universities, looking at successive efforts in the twentieth century and considering the location of such “interdisciplines”, the relationships between disciplines, and the organization of interdisciplinary efforts.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: academic disciplines, Book Review, collaboration, higher education, interdisciplinary conversation, interdisciplinary research, university

Peace, Beauty, Relationships: Teenage reflections on the MidWest Faculty Ministry Conference

September 29, 2014 by Ellen Grosh 3 Comments

Ellen Grosh (age 14) reflects on the peace, beauty, and relationships she enjoyed at the 2014 MidWest Faculty Ministry Conference.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, The End of Higher Ed, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: 2014 Midwest Faculty Conference, cedar campus, faculty conference, Midwest Faculty Conference, The Ends and Goals of Higher Education, The Ends and Goals of Higher Education in Twenty First Century America

The End of Higher Ed — Update #1

July 2, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. — Matthew 22:37-40 […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, The End of Higher Ed, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: faculty conference, The Ends and Goals of Higher Education, The Ends and Goals of Higher Education in Twenty First Century America

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