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Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can...
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 3, 2013 Art is something that you encounter and you know it’s in a different kind of space from the rest of your life, but is directly connected to it.
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Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana, Harvard Education Press, 2011 The authors are directors of the appropriately named Right Question Institute (RQI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Isn’t this the single...
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Your Brain on Study Abroad: The Experience Changes Lives, and Neurons, a...
Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31, 2013 (subscription required) Closely related: Interacting with international students develops many important skills (June 13, 2013) This is a...
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Honors faculty & students presenting at conference: 21st Century Citizens:...
This conference goes to the heart of HON 251 Citizen & Self, and Dr. Elizabeth Gish and two of her former students and teaching assistants, Kaitlyn Dickinson and Phil Pearson, will present a paper...
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The Future of the Humanities: Cross-disciplinary, collaborative & engaged
Doesn’t this sound like the future of liberal arts and honors education more generally? This is a collection of recent reflections on the potential and challenges of the humanities. For some context,...
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AASHE Conference 2013: Resiliency & Adaptation
North America’s largest higher education sustainability conference! Nashville, TN, October 6-9, 2013 I am so very pleased to announce that WKU will be a sponsor of the Association for the Advancement...
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Interacting with international students develops many important skills
See our previous post on how study abroad not only changes your life, but also your brain & why culture shock is good for you! Two researchers at Duke found that regular interaction with...
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“Something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one...
Thanks Kelly Madole and Elizabeth Gish for pointing that out to me. Every once in a while, I have the irresistible urge to post something funny or at least silly. Being German, loving philosophy and...
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Where is the spirit at home?
Annie Dillard on presence over productivity & Pico Iyer on where home is The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. (cf....
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The secret to learning anything: Joy & flow
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 14, 2013 Einstein’s experience and advice is very similar to what US-Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, has coined as ‘flow‘ – a person’s joyfully full...
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Seven Virtues of Engaged Citizenship – Lecture by Dr. Thad Williamson
Wed, Feb 6, 6.30pm, Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR), Garrett 115 The lecture is required for students in Citizen and Self (HON 251), but should be interesting to others and...
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Seven Virtues of Engaged Citizenship – Lecture by Dr. Thad Williamson today...
Wed, Feb 6, 6.30pm, Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR), Garrett 115 The lecture is required for students in Citizen and Self (HON 251), but should be interesting to others and...
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Apply for internships with the WKU ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships by...
The ALIVE Center currently has 2 paid positions and 4 unpaid positions available. These are great opportunities to gain valuable experience, hone your skills, make a difference, and network!
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One of WKU’s newest scholarship opportunities is geared toward students with an eye toward community service. Amy Bingham has more on Bonner scholarships in this week’s View from the Hill. The...
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Get to know candidates to teach HON 251 Citizen and Self & give us feedback,...
Over the next few weeks, the Honors College will bring five candidates to campus in the hopes of hiring two as new Honors faculty members. Both new faculty will team-teach HON 251 with Professor Gish...
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Ami Carter of the Honors College at WKU elected to Golden Key Council & two...
Ami Carter, Coordinator for Academic Advising and Retention for the Honors College at WKU, has been elected Vice President of Golden Key International Honour Society’s International Leadership Council....
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Peru – From the Amazon to Machu Picchu: Community, Place & Leadership
Please note: An Honors (HON) section of GWS 470 is being offered More information Apply now
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Project Affect
Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 11am-3pm, WKU Grise Lawn Raindate: Sep 26 (same time & location) Register your group to participate many great volunteer opportunities Campus and Community organizations will...
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