Scheduled from Thursday through Saturday
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 22, 2015) — Transylvania University is hosting a seminar, “Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept,” from Thursday through Saturday.
The seminar will include 22 faculty participants from schools across the country.
“With its historical prominence, Transylvania is the ideal university to continue to host the collaboration of distinguished scholars to examine the sustainability of liberal education in this century,” said Laura Bryan, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the university.
The public is invited to the seminar’s two free public talks.
On Thursday, Jeff Freyman, professor emeritus at Transylvania, will speak on “Humanizing the Subject: Thoughts on a Curriculum for Liberal Education in the Twenty-First Century.”
On Saturday, Transylvania University President Seamus Carey will speak on “Less is More: The Challenge of not Over-Administering the Liberal Arts.”
Both public talks are free and start at 8 p.m. in Room 102 of the Cowgill Center.
The seminar also will provide faculty participants an overview of liberal education throughout history and will invite them to apply its principles to courses they teach at their own schools.
Among the seminar’s other topics will be “Reconnecting the Liberal Arts with the Natural Sciences and Mathematics” and “Entertaining Possibilities: Unconventional Allies and Approaches to Liberal Education.”
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