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“Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!” – Miss Frizzle Now, I know what you may be thinking, “Miss Frizzle?!?! The teacher from the Magic School Bus? Really?” Or, better yet, I’ve just aged myself and what you’re actually thinking is, “Who the hell is Miss Frizzle?” Either way, ...

Learning to Settle for Good Enough


Blog Series: Changing Scholarship
November 18, 2024
Tags: ethics   |   Changing Scholarship   |   Johann Hari   |   Sune Lehmann   |   Course Prep   |   Good   |   Settle   |   Materials   |   Stolen Focus

Creating new courses just keeps getting harder. Today I finished drafting the reading list for my new course on Ethics and the Good Life for first year students. It was supposed to be easy because my research and writing is about ethics. And it was supposed to be fun because ...

“I’ve got the love of Jesus down in my heart!” “Where?!” “Down in my heart!” “Where?” “Down in my heart to stay!” We sang as we sat around the campfire at our Minam Lake campsite in the Wallowa Mountains. It was a discovery. So many of us knew the ...

(An audio version of this blog may be found here.) We were not gathered to analyze the problems facing systems of education, societal storms, weaponized misinformation, wars around the globe, or climate change. We were not convened to solve problems of organizational structures or craft new and much needed policies ...

The Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (FCHS) Critical Hindu Studies Seminar at Wabash Center Funded Retreat, May 2023 Top left to right: Marko Geslani, Jamal Jones, Vijaya Nagarajan, Shana Sippy, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Second row left to right: Shreena Gandhi, Varun Khanna (Vishwa Khanna in lap), Rupa Pillai, Sailaja Krishnamurti Bottom ...

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