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“The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se” (Charles Eames)
Here’s to the birthday of Charles Eames — legendary furniture designer, deft universe-explainer, celebrated champion of design as a force of culture, creative genius of uncommon sincerity, honesty,...
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“The highest result of education is tolerance” (Helen Keller)
More by Helen Keller on optimism.
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Record number of students, recent graduates earn national scholarships
A record number of WKU students and recent graduates were recognized in prestigious national scholarship competitions in 2012-13. To date, 31 WKU students and recent graduates were successful in...
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What employers really want
What employers really want from students is not what too many in higher education still think that they want. As a result of this misperception, students are not as well prepared as they could be....
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“I like it when my students cry”– No Learning Without Feeling
Claire Needell Hollander, New York Times Sunday Review, June 8, 2013 The author is an English teacher at a public middle school in Manhattan and the author of the young adult novel “Something Right...
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More is Better: The Impact of Study Abroad Program Duration
Mary M. Dwyer, President & CEO, IES Abroad Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, vol. X, Fall 2004 (pdf) The title says it all: This study finds that the longer students study...
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Unintentional Knowledge: What we find when we are not looking
Julio Alves (director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning and of the Writing Program at Smith College), The Chronicle Review, June 23, 2013 Most of our knowledge is incidental and...
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Study abroad is but one way to globalize students’ perspective
Mark Salisbury, director of institutional research and assessment at Augustana College Illinois, argues that too many in study abroad still put the cart before the horse, and that it is high time to...
View ArticleThe Heart of the Matter: Why we need the humanities & social sciences more...
Maria Popova argues that the humanities help us become more human, and highlights actor John Lithgow’s quote from the above short film, among others: Without the humanities, life doesn’t have life –...
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21 Essential Reads on Education
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 28, 2013 After previously requested reading lists like famous writers’ collected advice on writing, the best books of 2012, and history’s finest letters of fatherly...
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Embrace your inner contradictions and those of the world
These are some highlights from Joss Whedon’s recent commencement address via Brain Pickings. He focuses on how contradictions constitute our very identity and that of the world, and encourages us to...
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No Self-Mockery, Please, We’re American
Terry Eagleton, The Chronicle Review, July 1, 2013 This is an amusing and controversial take by literary theorist and critic Terry Eagleton on the strengths and weaknesses of ‘American collective...
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‘If it isn’t global, it isn’t an education’
Diverse Conversations: The Globalization of Higher Education, Matthew Lynch, Diverse, May 22, 2013 The purpose of education is to prepare students as well as possible for life and work in the...
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‘We are the custodians of life’s meaning’
Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life, Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, July 8, 2013 These are some profound reflections by Sagan on our place and role in the universe which powerfully speak to the ideal of...
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Western Kentucky Honors College: Regional Excellence, International Impact
Public University Honors (The site for public university honors colleges & programs), June 11, 2013 This is a recent positive profile of the Honors College highlighting scholarships and global...
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Study abroad makes you a better person
A new study of the effects of study abroad on students’ personal development finds a significant positive impact on the “Big Five” personality traits: agreeableness conscientiousness neuroticism...
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Honors education as transformative learning
Given the various understandings of honors education, it might be fruitful to conceptualize it as transformative learning, which has the advantage of effectively weaving together several key strands...
View Article“The unknown was my encyclopedia”
Most of our knowledge is incidental and tacit. How, then, do we best design learning experiences that allow students to open themselves up and embrace the world as comprehensively as possible? This has...
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WKU Honors Today #4: Gilman Scholarship, new courses, Israel, top-notch...
Today is the 8th day of 2013. There are 357 days left in the year. Video of the Day: Nate Hovee’s trip to Israel (while on study abroad in Istanbul) Highlight of the Day 5 students receive Gilman...
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WKU Honors Today #9: $10,000 scholarship, study abroad, freedom, Harlem...
Today is the 13th day of 2013. There are 352 days left in the year. Picture of the Day Upcoming opportunities, events & deadlines Apply for the Generation Ali Global Citizenship Scholarship of...
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