Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education Bernd Estabrook

We start off our new season with an interview -- a conversation with an emeritus professor of literature, Dr. Robert Seufert, who reflects on his decades of experience in the classroom teaching English. His experiments in the creation of transformational experiences for students are applicable to a wide variety of teaching environments and situations. I think you'll find his reflections thought-provoking; he has taken the time since his retirement to draw remarkable insights into ...

As we begin the second season of Edumeasure, we thought we would give our listeners some idea of what we learned from the first season, and where we plan to go now.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

What should an extraordinary education look like from the perspective of a college president? Dr Jeff Abernathy, President of Alma College, offers his vision of what a liberal arts education can and should do to to transform student learning, relying on his experience as a Professor, a Dean, a Provost. and a College President over a 40-year career in higher education.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode's interview, we listen to three recent college graduates reflect on their educations -- about what was meaningful about the college experience itself, and what those experiences mean to them today. These students provide us with a fascinating perspective on our students' understanding of the goals and ideals of the liberal arts. This episode is Part One of a two-part series. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

In today's episode we interview Dr. Larry Zettler, a professor of Biology at Illinois College. We discuss how the transformational classroom explores the value of unmediated experiences in support of intensive learning and how this kind of educational experience can have a powerful impact on the students' relationships with the world around them.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education