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The Promise of the Experiential Liberal Arts<\/a><\/strong> – By Tim Cresswell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><\/p>\n

Experiential education, an attempt to break down the barrier between classroom learning and everyday life, has long been a staple of professional disciplines. For the liberal arts, the partnership hasn\u2019t come naturally. For many liberal-arts faculty members, an education should be for its own sake, not for job preparation.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it is common now for liberal-arts colleges to advertise their embrace of experiential, “high impact” forms of education. These generally include place-based learning during study abroad, internships, civic engagement, and undergraduate research. Fully realized, the experiential liberal arts have the potential to transform higher education.<\/p>\n

Large universities have taken the lead on this change. For example, my previous institution, Northeastern University, is fully connecting experiential education to the liberal arts. The university\u2019s College of Social Sciences and Humanities has defined a model that links traditional liberal-\u00adarts strengths (critical thinking, cross-cultural competency, etc.) with the long-established strengths in co-operative education that Northeastern is known for. In addition, it has embraced new competencies, particularly in areas such as data visualization, that clearly overlap with existing liberal-\u00adarts disciplines.<\/p>\n

Many traditional liberal-arts colleges, too, are embracing, if somewhat cautiously, forms of learning that would have been unthinkable in an earlier era. While business schools in those types of institutions are still rare, there has been a recent flowering of centers and programs focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. Such programs exist at Middlebury, Lewis and Clark, Bates, and Swarthmore, among other colleges.<\/p>\n

At other liberal-arts colleges, some programs have long recognized the value of practical forms of education. Here at Trinity College, we have a distinctive, longstanding engineering program in which the very practical discipline of engineering is mixed with traditional liberal-arts skills. The logic for such a program is not simply to provide a practical route to employment within a liberal-arts context but also to bring the benefits of a rounded liberal-arts education to future engineers\u2026<\/p>\n

Tim Cresswell<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Trinity College, in Connecticut.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lori Riley: Trinity’s Anne Parmenter Always Looking For New Heights To Scale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hartford Courant<\/em><\/p>\n

Anne Parmenter<\/strong><\/a> is not just a mountaineer. She\u2019s summitted Mount Everest.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not just a runner \u2013 she\u2019s run five Boston Marathons. And she\u2019s not just a field hockey coach. Parmenter, who has coached at Trinity College for 18 years, will be inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Hall of Fame in Florida in January.<\/p>\n

But talking to Parmenter, 59, who hails from England, you might never know any of this. She is self-deprecating, with a terrific sense of humor, and she has a lot of stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of my friends have won national championships but I haven\u2019t won one,\u201d she said. \u201cI joke \u2013 my friend [Nicky Pearson] at Bowdoin\u2019s won four and my friend [Dawn Chamberlin] at Salisbury\u2019s won multiple titles \u2013 \u2018Ooh, now I get to sit at the big girls table, because they\u2019re all Hall of Famers.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel humbled. Honored. I feel like I\u2019m still that girl who came to the U.S. for one year and I\u2019m still here. I\u2019m waiting for that tap on the shoulder \u2026 \u2018Hey, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s a little of the imposter syndrome, you\u2019re waiting for someone to find out you actually don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parmenter knows what she\u2019s doing. She has 276 wins, ranked 12th among active Division III coaches. She coached the two-time Division III national player of the year, Kelcie Finn, the last two years. Trinity has advanced to the NESCAC tournament the last 12 years and went to the Final 8 last year (losing to national runner-up Messiah) and in 2009\u2026<\/p>\n

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Kavanaugh, Ford Testify In Historic Hearings<\/a> [radio clip]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere We Live\u201d – Connecticut Public Radio<\/p>\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, just hours after the judge and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified.<\/p>\n

Joining us now to discuss Thursday’s hearings is Adrienne Fulco<\/strong><\/a> — she’s an associate professor of legal and policy studies at Trinity College in Hartford.<\/p>\n

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As younger Catholics drift away, the church considers what works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n

A member of the so-called Silent Generation and grandmother of 13, Mary Ann Keyes is the matriarch of a big Catholic family whose ties to the Roman Catholic Church \u2014 like those of many families \u2014 have grown more complicated with each generation.<\/p>\n

While angered and saddened by the clergy sexual abuse scandals, Keyes, whose family is based in part on the South Shore, would never walk away. \u201cThe church means everything to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her daughter, Kelly Carey, is 53, born between the baby boomers and Generation X. She considered stepping away after the abuse revelations of the early 2000s, she says, but weathered the scandals as a \u201croaming\u201d Catholic, bouncing among different parishes in the area to hear individual priests she likes and respects.<\/p>\n

Carey\u2019s daughters, Katie Nivard, 31, and Reilly Carey, 24, are millennials, and their relationship to the church is more difficult. Both consider themselves Catholic, but neither attends church regularly. It is not the clergy scandals alone that have pushed them away, though that is part of it. They have also found other ways to express their spirituality and find a sense of community outside of an institution they see as out of step with the times…<\/p>\n

Andrew Walsh<\/strong><\/a>, a religious historian at Trinity College in Hartford, said that despite defections, the Catholic Church in America is still huge and \u201cnot in danger of going out of business.\u201d Still, society\u2019s growing secularization is worrisome for the church, a problem made worse by the clergy abuse scandal, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an absolutely unavoidable way, every time there is a big eruption of a phase of the sexual abuse crisis, there\u2019s a wave of abandonment of the church,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s likely that is what\u2019s going to happen in the short term now.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

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