Navigating the Digital Future: Allison Stanger on Education and the Digital Humanism Initiative Allison Stanger, political scientist and Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont, in the US, recently facilitated a Liberal Arts and Sciences…
Five students from Parami University, an OSUN member institution, spoke to BBC News about their struggles in continuing higher education during the 2021 military coup in Myanmar (formerly Burma) and its aftermath. From dealing with losing electricity to writing…
Thursday, February 1, 20248:00 am – 9:30 am EST/GMT-5 Online Event8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna The LAS Collaborative invites the OSUN community to an event with James Taylor Carson, speaking about his 2022 article “Rethinking a…
The title of this article suggests there is something specific about liberal education, in contrast to purely professional or vocational education, that geopolitical situations are sensitive to, and vice versa. The reality is that practitioners of liberal arts…
OSUN’s Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative recently hosted a panel discussion to mark the launch of its framework on the operation of liberal arts and sciences education as a system. Panelists were asked to respond to the framework, which employs three…
OSUN’s Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative recently sponsored an event with Doug Haynes of the University of Sussex, exploring the ways in which interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarityy, and even postdisciplinarity might manifest in liberal arts and sciences (LAS) education. His talk followed the publication…
Teachers in ancient India and China were the first to educate young people to become “well-rounded, responsible” individuals, much like contemporary liberal arts and sciences educators do today, writes Kyaw Moe Tun in a recent issue of Times Higher Education. Kyaw…
OSUN’s Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative recently sponsored a talk by Samuel Abraham, rector of the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, examining critical challenges to liberal arts and sciences (LAS) education and the ways LAS supporters might tackle those obstacles. Trends such…