Convocation Addresses Copyright (c) 2013 Connecticut College All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo Recent documents in Convocation Addresses en-us Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:17:46 PDT 3600 Honor Code Ethics 101 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/8 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/8 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:28:35 PDT Simon Feldman, assistant professor of philosophy, addresses the college community at Convocation, the first day of classes: "My plan is to try to provoke you into doing some thinking of your own about the Honor Code and the point of a liberal arts education. If I fail, I hope at least you’ll be very confused. And because being confused is the starting point of all philosophy, I’ll be pretty happy with that."

]]> Simon Feldman Making the College New - and Old - Again http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/7 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/7 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:17:24 PDT Catherine McNicol Stock, professor of history, says one must look at the College's history to inform an understanding of its present and future.

]]> Catherine McNicol Stock Liberal Arts 2.0 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/5 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/5 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:45:10 PST The title, Liberal Arts 2.0., "stems from the term Web 2.0, which refers to the recent evolution of the Web as interactive, participatory, collaborative and collective. Web 2.0 includes blogs, wikis, user-generated media, social networking: like much of what it describes, the definition is amorphous and inexact." Baird believes that Web 2.0 and all that it implies will necessitate a revision of the way we do liberal arts and thus the title “Liberal Arts 2.0.”

Her premise: that a liberal arts college is a place where teaching and research are improved by digital tools, where students are taught to negotiate and synthesize the sea of information available to them, where important ethical questions are discussed and aired. It is a place where the liberal arts are evolving into version 2.0., And that a liberal arts college is also exactly where students should be in this digital era.

]]> Bridget B. Baird Convocation 2008 Address by Alumna Liza Talusan http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/4 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/4 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:27:22 PDT Alumna Liza Talusan relates that one of the most important lessons she learned about the Connecticut College community didn’t happen in the classrooms, nor while she was a housefellow or hanging out at Unity House, but happened long after she graduated, years after she married her Connecticut College sweetheart, and even after they had their first child.

]]> Liza Talusan Why Should Students Do Research? http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/3 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/3 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:19:27 PDT Bruce R. Branchini The Liberal Arts Academy - A Minority Report http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/2 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/2 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:15:19 PDT W. John Coats On Traveling, Teaching, and Storytelling: Some Thoughts on Research http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/1 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/convo/1 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:30:59 PDT Lindsey B. Harlan