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Opening: Liberal Arts/Honors College, Full-Time Faculty Position (Houston Baptist University)

May 15, 2015 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Houston Baptist University seeks a professor for its Smith College of Liberal Arts and its Honors College. Rank will be commensurate with qualifications. Candidates should be available to begin work in August 2015. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Finding Work Tagged With: Honors College, Houston Baptist University, liberal arts

Thoughtfulness as the Aim of Liberal Education?

August 25, 2010 by Micheal Hickerson 1 Comment

Each year, a senior scholar at the University of Chicago is chosen to deliver the Aims of Education address to incoming students. (An archive of the addresses since 1995 can be found online.) In 1981, Leon R. Kass delivered perhaps the best known of the addresses, “The Aims of Liberal Education.” After dismissing several other […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy Tagged With: leon kass, liberal arts, liberal education, university of chicago

What Life and Higher Education Asks of Us

January 29, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

HT to Arlene Miller, retired nursing faculty at Messiah College (Grantham, PA) and co-author of two InterVarsity Press Books (Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing and Values in Conflict: Christian Nursing in a Changing Profession), who shared with me What Life Asks of Us. What do I find of interest regarding David Brooks’ […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy, The University Tagged With: academic culture, big questions, culture-making, end of education, liberal arts

Finding the Fit at a Small College

September 2, 2008 by Micheal Hickerson No Comments

The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s On Hiring blog posted last week about finding a fit at small colleges. Some faculty relish their work at small liberal arts colleges, while others find the atmosphere burdensome. The post and the comments that follow it offer some excellent advice, both to job seekers and to those seeking to […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Finding Work Tagged With: Faculty, hiring, liberal arts, Links, professor

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