Cross-posted from my SHC blog: I have just uploaded a podcast recorded in mid-April with Karen Swensen, Scholar class of 1991, and former WWL-TV anchor. Karen lived in New Orleans from 1992 until early 2006 and she remained in NOLA during Katrina, as did her husband, a homicide detective with […]
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It is always interesting how people summarize their data, very telling. My favorite line of the summary below, “they pray at least sometimes.” Yup, every time I stub my toe. Did you know… While 49.9% of students consider themselves to be “strongly” spiritual, 36.1% consider themselves to be “strongly” religious. […]
From engage.shc.psu.edu. I will be in Pittsburgh today and tomorrow on bidness so no blogging for a day or so. It has nearly been a full year since I started as Dean of the Schreyer Honors College and some reflection is in order. Personally, it is amazing to think of […]
Two months ago we had a gala dinner to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Schreyer Honors College. It was a great evening with wonderful people, especially the students (to get a sense of the amazing students I am bless to work with be sure to check […]
I still have a few misgivings about Google. Yet I am assured by people I trust very much that this is all a good thing and if I can get them to scan all our theses as part of the deal then, bonus! 12-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM JOINS GOOGLE DIGITIZATION PROJECT The […]
We had a great all-day meeting with our colleagues from the CIC. Many are doing very exciting things and we picked up a lot of great ideas. Each program is actually quite different, but we all face similar issues and have similar concerns and I learned much yesterday. It was […]
Cross post from The Job: We have posted the video made for the 10th Anniversary of the Schreyer Honors College on YouTube. View it at YouTube here or below:
A message from Penn State and University Scholar alumnus Peter Klein (this year’s Luchinsky Lecturer): … When we look back on this period after 9/11, how will we judge the country’s treatment of Muslim- and Arab-Americans? We wanted to explore that question by examining specific cases, searching for parallels to […]
From our Schreyer Honors College Blog: Announcing the 2007 Summer Reading List The following are book descriptions from the 2007 Schreyer Honors College Summer Reading List. The group discussions will be held with first-year Scholars during Orientation on Thursday, August 23 and Friday, August 24. All first-year Scholars will be […]
I just thought I would let folks know that the slow down in posts is just due to the pesky real world® rearing its ugly head and keeping me from doing my usual online reading and commenting. We are nearing the end of the semester which means lots of board […]