I was invited to offer the invocation for Penn State’s 35th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Banquet. I thought I would share my prayer with you here.
Lord and Father of all,
We come together tonight to commemorate and celebrate the life of your servant Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Your child, you called him to [...]
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Invocation for 35th Annual MLK Memorial Banquet
Holiday Greetings from PSU
Last week the university released its annual video greeting. I was honored to have a brief appearance. If you are interested in the work I was referring to in the video it was just published in this article. (I mentioned it on this blog back in Oct.)
What it means to be a scholar
By jamelah on flickr used under Creative Commons license.
From my “other” blog as Dean of the SHC. I share it here because I am not sure that everyone would agree with my definition of a scholar. (I should note that our students are “Schreyer Scholars” so there is a bit of a play on words.)
This [...]
Fractured online identity?
Or split personality? Christopher Long, associate professor of Philosophy at PSU and soon to be associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is wondering how to manage his online presence. Should he have one unified identity @cplong? Or two or more, such as I have (@targuman and @shcdean)?
My comments were as follows.
I have two [...]
No duh: Drinking doesn’t help with studies
Just back from SBL and getting ready to be descended upon by 10 relatives, but I caught this in the Penn State Newswire. How would have thought that engaging in excessive use of alcohol could effect your grades?
College students who engage in binge drinking tend to earn lower grades than students who don’t abuse alcohol, according [...]
