Monthly Archives: April 2010

Next chapter: how knowledge creation & engaged scholarship can co-exist

April 28, 2010 – 2:38 pm

Don’t miss the video about our academic plan process. It’s about halfway through this post. There’s no doubt that there is a widespread acknowledgment that higher education has the ability to lift humanity and solve big problems. We mostly do it by creating and distributing knowledge. Louis Menand wrote a piece in the New Yorker [...]

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Fictional scenario reveals true professionalism, cooperation

April 26, 2010 – 9:33 am

Last week, we had a scary what-if scenario to consider: our response to a shooting incident on campus. The two gunmen, hostages and multiple victims were actors participating in an exercise, but the police and other emergency responders were real, and they handled this mock crisis with true professionalism. Any real large-scale incident would quickly [...]

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Now and then with Pat Metheny

April 13, 2010 – 8:24 am

Last week, I had the chance to see the Pat Metheny Orchestrion show at Memorial Hall.  I have been a Pat Metheny fan for 30 years.  I have all of his early records on vinyl (of course, I have nothing to play them on, so I probably should just keep the jackets), and I have [...]

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