The Liberal Arts, the Campus, and the Biosphere

1990 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Orr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
College Youth ◽  
Curricular Innovations ◽  
Allan Bloom

Where does the campus fit into the biosphere? What role should universities play in the struggle to save the environment? Although critics, such as Allan Bloom, have recently accused liberal arts institutions of failing to educate college youth properly, few have addressed the question of how colleges and universities might make students more aware and responsible about their place in the natural world. In this article David Orr offers a rationale for incorporating environmental concerns into the curricula of higher education and suggests examples of curricular innovations, including programs for restructuring the ways colleges procure food, deal with waste, and use energy. Orr shows us how a focus on the ecosystem of the college campus can broaden students' visions of the natural world in which they live.

Reasons for Student Behavior Codes: A Qualitative Study at Two Christian Liberal Arts Institutions

NASPA Journal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad A. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Christian Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
Institutional Values

One of the great challenges facing Christian higher education is the role and impact of student behavior codes in furthering institutional values and inculcating those values in the students served by such institutions. The perspectives of administrators, faculty members, and students regarding the rationale for codes of conduct at their institution are examined. To obtain data, administrators, faculty members, and students at two Christian liberal arts institutions completed questionnaires and participated in follow-up interviews based on individual responses to the questionnaire. The views of all three groups are described as they see behavior codes relating to institutional purpose and the development and implementation of such codes.

The Diverse US Higher Education System

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
System P

The American higher education system consists of over 4,700 institutions educating over twenty-one million students. The most striking feature of this system is its diversity. There is no “typical college.” Much of the story about the future of America’s four-year higher education institutions is found in their differences, not their similarities. Schools are public and private, large and small, elite and open enrollment, tuition dependent and well endowed, liberal arts oriented and vocational. The challenges facing America’s colleges and universities will affect the diverse parts of this system in very different ways. Generalizing about this system can be very dangerous.

scholarly journals Leveraging Collaboration and Peer Support to Initiate and Sustain a Faculty Development Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneris Coria-Navia ◽  
Scott Moncrieff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Strong Component ◽  
Faculty Development Program ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
Formal Systems ◽  
Consulting Services ◽  
Adequate Funding

In today’s impoverished higher education fiscal climate, especially considering the enormous financial implications to higher education of accommodating the changes required by the coronavirus pandemic, “nonessential” though highly important programs, such as centers for teaching and learning (CTLs), are very likely to be underfunded. In this study, we illustrate how underfunded programs can leverage peer collaboration and support to initiate productive, formal systems of assistance for faculty by describing a number of such programs developed by and/or coordinated by our CTL. Moreover, we propose that sustainable programs, especially at small liberal arts institutions, must include a strong component of peer networking and in-house expertise rather than relying on outside consulting services. In a climate of shrinking dollars, CTLs can still perform some key roles effectively while continuing to advocate for more adequate funding.

scholarly journals Regenerative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Framework for Surpassing Sustainability and Attaining Regeneration

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Chara Armon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Early 21St Century

Many in higher education seek to define how to respond to our environmental crisis. Our 20th and early 21st century failures to resolve the crisis have revealed that a focus on “sustainability” is inadequate in its goals, methods, and public appeal. Higher education must now advance its contribution to preparing graduates to enact the regeneration the damaged natural world requires. We now must teach the deep “why” of caring for our home planet as our life partner, exceed the standard of sustainability to focus on the more enduring and restorative standard of regeneration, and offer our students knowledge and skills for effective regenerative action. Colleges and universities can define their primary goal as teaching students how to tend the flourishing and regeneration of the life community via an emphasis on regenerative collaboration. Regenerative collaboration consists of principles that can guide higher education into a stage of deep contribution to regeneration of the natural world and human well-being. The framework of regenerative collaboration promotes transformation of academic disciplines, academic departments, and courses and calls for development of practical regenerative skills to be part of every degree program. Regenerative collaboration is a means of enacting higher education’s transition from a knowledge focus to a wisdom and regenerative action focus.

Integrating Adult Learning and Technology for Effective Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royce Ann Collins ◽  
James B. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Traditional Classrooms ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Education Needs

This chapter is an examination of the influences involved in the integrating of adults into higher education. The chapter begins with an exploration of the increase in the number of adults in higher education since 1969. Comparing the changes in demographics from 1969 to 2007 shows how little large public universities have done to integrate adults into higher education. This examination shows significant participation by three types of institutions; community colleges, small private four year liberal arts institutions, and for-profit institutions created to meet the higher education needs of adults. The chapter defines adult and higher education and discusses how they differ or interact. A discussion of how adult students learn and effective techniques to facilitate learning in adult classrooms follows these definitions. Finally, a discussion identifying how teaching techniques that are effective for adults can be integrated into traditional classrooms in higher education brings the chapter to a close.

The Nature of Student Affairs Work in the Liberal Arts College

NASPA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan B. Hirt ◽  
Catherine T. Amelink ◽  
Steven R Schneiter
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Student Affairs Professionals ◽  
Student Affairs Administrators ◽  
Student Affairs Administration ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Liberal Arts Institution

The mission of the liberal arts institution is to educate the whole student; this parallels the aims of student affairs administration. How does this mission affect what student affairs professionals employed at these institutions do? For this study, researchers examined the nature of work for student affairs administrators at liberal arts institutions. Results revealed that professional life can be conceptualized through three themes: the manner in which work is conducted, work habits in relation to students, and the work environment.

Outsourcing and the Role of Psychological Services on the College Campus

NASPA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Webb ◽  
Jane C. Widseth ◽  
Kenneth B. John
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Legal Responsibilities

This paper explores the complexities involved in transferring psychological services to off-campus providers. The ethical and legal responsibilities of colleges and universities to provide services that encourage the development of the student may not be met by health care entrepreneurs who do not take into account differences between the needs of college students and those of members the larger society.

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