#37: Celebrating the Value of Liberal Arts Education: Opportunities for the Future
Release Date: 01/26/2015
Wabash On My Mind
This episode features senior forward for Little Giants Basketball Ahmoni Jones, Wabash class of 2024, discussing his struggle in the first year, the impact of the Malcolm X Institute on his sense of belonging, and overcoming the fear in leadership (Episode 359).
info_outline #358: Immersion: E.U. Pre-TripWabash On My Mind
This episode features two founding professors and two student participants in a course featuring Spring Break travel ahead of the journey to the European Union, anticipating language barriers, primary source research, and other hidden benefits to immersion learning (Episode 358).
info_outline #357: Celebration of Student Research 2024Wabash On My Mind
This episode features student presenters on-location at this year’s Celebration of Student Research, broaching a broad range of disciplines from financial remittance patterns, food insecurity, Ghostbusters, and custom rocketry (Episode 357).
info_outline #356: Governing at WabashWabash On My Mind
This episode features the professor and two students of the Governing at Wabash political science course, tracing the history of decision-making at the College over key traditions like mandatory Chapel and the recurring debate over co-education (Episode 356).
info_outline #355: Don Silas ’24Wabash On My Mind
This episode features the current live broadcast director for the Wabash College Video Network, Don Silas ’24, discussing his reflection on senior comps, what it takes to produce a live broadcast, and his extensive internship work in Appalachia (Episode 355).
info_outline #354: GHI Peru PartnersWabash On My Mind
This episode features partners of Wabash’s Global Health Initiative based out of Peru during a visit to campus, discussing their observations about Wabash students, how the partnership began, and their hopes to expand the program in the years to come (Episode 354).
info_outline #353: Angelo PizzoWabash On My Mind
This episode features Angelo Pizzo, the screenwriter behind the classic sports film Hoosiers, as he describes growing up in Bloomington, accidentally becoming a filmmaker, making a director’s cut, and what he loves about basketball (Episode 353).
info_outline #352: Robert Meitus ’88Wabash On My Mind
This episode features entertainment and intellectual property lawyer Robert Meitus ’88, discussing his earning the Lilly Scholarship to attend Wabash, his musical ventures out-of-state, and his return to Indiana with wife and singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer (Episode 352).
info_outline #351: Dr. Derek Nelson ’99Wabash On My Mind
This episode features Dr. Derek Nelson, the 43rd LaFollette Lecturer, discussing the relationship between woodworking and theology and a funny thing about productivity (Episode 351).
info_outline #350: Rudolph Scholars 2023Wabash On My Mind
This episode features Ethan Brown ’24, Jesus Monrroy ’24, and Calvin Pawlowski ’24, recipients of this year’s Kenneth Rhys Rudolph Memorial Scholarship for European summer study abroad. The three students discuss their travels in Belgium, Germany, and Spain, and the advice they would give to others aspiring to study abroad (Episode 350).
info_outlineThe final panel in the Celebrating the Value of Liberal Arts Education series addresses the question: What must be changed or preserved about the liberal arts to ensure its relevance and effectiveness for the future?
Panel Chair: Robert Wedgeworth Jr. '59, fmr. Dean of Columbia University and retired CEO of ProLiteracy Worldwide
Panelists: Bob Connor, fmr. President of the Teagle Foundation; Cecilia A. Conrad, VP of the MacArthur Program; Kelly Pfledderer '96, CEO and Founder of Apparatus. (Episode 37)