Keela Grimmette (ΦBK, Wells College, 2006) is the founder of Reason 2 Smile, a non-profit that helps support a small school in Kenya.
Iconoclasm brings to mind the theoretical underpinning of a liberal arts education: a shift away from prescriptive scholarship and an emphasis on arriving at heightened curiosity.
Renowned scholar M. Thomas Inge (ΦBK, Randolph-Macon College, 1959) has donated his 800 volume William Faulkner collection to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Egan’s book Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher received the 2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award by Phi Beta Kappa.
In addition to overlooking the crisis of perpetually shrinking resources, the completion agenda ignores what should be raison d’être of of every college and university—the education of the student.
Melissa Fares talks about her experience as a student at Smith College and comments on the value of a single sex education.
A strong liberal arts education develops the mind, humanity’s greatest and most important faculty for achievement.
In his new book, Alcohol and Violence, ΦBK member Robert Nash Parker dispels the myth that crime cannot be quelled by scientific study.
Research at small liberal arts colleges is thriving, and there are huge benefits to the programs in place there – for the academic community as well as the students they serve.
Those with a liberal arts education are equipped to not only be successful in their own careers, but also to recognize and seek opportunity, drive innovation, and as free thinkers, shape America’s future.
An 1837 speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson and contemporary agricultural internships reveal that the best place to dismantle academia’s ivory tower is the soil at is foundation.
“Vulnerable Times” highlights vulnerabilities in society, both past and present, and ways in which these vulnerabilities can regain their importance.
