The Liberal Arts College in the 21st
Century:
Challenges and Responsibilities
February 22-23, 1999
The Liberal Arts College in the 21st
Century:
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Trinity College will host a major academic symposium on the liberal arts college on February 22-23, 1999. The centerpiece in a yearlong commemoration of Trinity College’s 175th anniversary, the symposium is intended both to celebrate the liberal arts college and to explore the challenges and opportunities it faces at the edge of the 21st century.
The symposium is both important and timely. According to Trinity President Evan S. Dobelle, "For much of its history, the American liberal arts college has virtually defined the terms for excellence in undergraduate education. Still the most vital and vibrant educational institution, the liberal arts college now confronts significant historical and cultural developments -- information technology and distance learning, demographic shifts, increasing calls for more vocationally oriented education, and intense public debates about the nature of the college curriculum -- that challenge the very character of liberal learning."
We invite you to attend this exciting symposium to hear some of the most thoughtful commentators on American higher education discuss these and other significant issues facing the independent liberal arts college. Much like the liberal arts college itself, the panelists represent all areas of the arts, sciences, and humanities, and they represent many different points of view. The symposium promises to offer two days of lively, wide-ranging, and extraordinarily well-informed debate.
Schedule
February 22, Monday
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
All panel sessions take place in the Washington Room, Mather Hall.
Evan S. Dobelle, President, Trinity College
Miller Brown, Interim Dean of the Faculty, Trinity College
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College, American studies; author of Alma Mater and Campus Life
Louis Menand, City University of New York Graduate Center, English; contributing editor, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker
Francis Oakley, Williams College, history and former president of Williams; author of Community of Learning
Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago, chair of the Committee on Social Thought; author of Idealism as Modernism
Robert Brustein, Harvard University, director of the American Repertory Theater; drama critic for The New Republic
Lesley Dill, internationally acclaimed artist
William Henry Lewis, Trinity College, English; author of In the Arms of Our Elders
Katharine Power, Trinity College, director of the InterArts program
Chase Twichell, award-winning poet; author of The Ghost of Eden
Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, Nobel laureate; author of The Quark and the Jaguar
J. M. Bernstein, Vanderbilt University, philosophy; author of Recovering Ethical Life
Daniel G. Blackburn, Trinity College, biology
Priscilla Kehoe, Trinity College, director of neuroscience program
Evan S. Dobelle, President, Trinity College
Paul Goldberger, contributing editor, The New Yorker
Eugene M. Lang, Eugene M. Lang Foundation
Eli Noam, director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, sociology; author of The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s "Racial Crisis"
February 23, Tuesday
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
All panel sessions take place in the Washington Room, Mather Hall.
Panel of students from Trinity and other institutions; Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz to moderate.
Paula Fass, University of California, Berkeley, history; author of Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education
Peter Rose, Smith College, sociology; author of Tempest-Tost: Race, Imagination, and the Dilemmas of Diversity
Catharine Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University; founding editor of Signs
Jerry G. Watts, Trinity College, American studies; author of Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life
Miller Brown, Interim Dean of the Faculty, Trinity College
J. M. Bernstein, Vanderbilt University, philosophy; author of Recovering Ethical Life
Francis Oakley, Williams College, history and former president of Williams; author of Community of Learning
Ruth Simmons, President, Smith College
Robert Stepto, Yale University, director of graduate program in African and African-American studies; author of Blue as the Lake
A round-up of reflections, reactions, and prognostications involving panelists and audience members.
Sessions run consecutively; all sessions take place in Washington Room, Mather Hall.
Registration Fees
$75 for one day; $100 for both days. Registration may be made on-line (see below) or
on the day of the conference. Checks should be made payable to Trinity College and sent
to:
Susan Day --70V
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Registration fee includes admission to the symposium, continental breakfast, refreshments, and lunch each day, plus a copy of Teaching Matters: Essays on Liberal Education at the Millennium , a collection of 18 essays on teaching in the liberal arts college written by some of Trinity College’s most accomplished teacher-scholars. We can guarantee a seat at the symposium and lunch only for those who send the registration fee by February 17.
Automobile Rental
Trinity has arranged a discounted rate with Enterprise Rent-A-Car for attendees
choosing to rent automobiles during the symposium. To take advantage of the discount,
please call Enterprise at 860.292.7061 and mention the Trinity College symposium.
Accommodations
Trinity has arranged special rates with the Hilton Hartford Hotel (formerly the
Sheraton). To make your reservations using the discounted rate, please call the Hilton
Hartford Hotel at 860.728.5151 or 1.800.HILTONS, and mention the Trinity College Symposium
on the Liberal Arts College.
Directions
To Trinity College
To Mather Hall
For more information
Susan Day: 860.297.2353 e-mail: susan.day@trincoll.edu.
Registration Form
Registration fee: $75 for one day, $100 for both days. Please register using the Symposium Registration
form. Or, you may register via e-mail: susan.day@trincoll.edu. Please be sure to include
the following information: name; telephone number; e-mail address; institution; department
or office; city; state; zip code; please indicate if you are registering for both days,
or, if registering for only one, please indicate which date.