As a reflection on pedagogy, this essay seeks to provide strategic tools for teaching Native American literature and culture to non-native students. My teaching philosophy is informed by the indigenous-centered, decolonial methodologies as defined by Devon Mihesuah who calls for "indigenizing" the academy by challenging the status quo and debating…

How do we impress upon our students the value of ethical writing?--of community involvement?--of civic activism? We must do more than prepare them for their roles as community members and future employees; we must show them in what way they are prepared, as well as how and why to maintain community connections. This paper details the creation of a…

In an April, 2012 Wall Street Journal article titled "Wealth or Waste? Rethinking the Value of a Business Major," national reporter Melissa Korn explores an intriguing fact: the business major, the most popular major on college campuses for over 30 years and the discipline believed to be most economically viable by prospective college students and…

Discusses the importance of research and scholarship in relation to the fine and liberal arts and examines its relationship to teaching also. (RB)

Argues that a liberal arts education can be an agent for reunification--a means of seeing science, math, philosophy, and the social sciences, as well as the arts, as all part of the human experience. (MM)

Traces the magnitude of the turn away from the liberal arts in American community colleges and suggests ways that faculty members in literature and the humanities might accommodate themselves to this change. (HOD)

A publisher strongly advocates a liberal education background for a career in book publishing. (HOD)

Liberal arts training is valuable not because it makes one "well-rounded" but because it makes one competitive. (HOD)