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Contact: Tom Parisi, NIU Office of Public Affairs
(815) 753-3635
September 18, 2003
Presidential Teaching Professor
tackles meaning of 'liberal education'
DeKalb, Ill.--NIU political scientist Gary Glenn will deliver the fall Presidential Teaching Professor seminar.
The seminar--titled "On the Future Possibility of Liberal Education at Northern Illinois University"-- will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center. Refreshments will be served at 11:30 a.m., and the public is welcome.
Glenn, a 37-year veteran of NIU, was awarded the Presidential Teaching Professorship in 2000. It is the university's highest teaching honor.
The seminar will examine the definition of a liberal education, obstacles in its path, and what it requires of both students and teachers.
"A liberal education will continue to depend on students who have the capacity to think and who love to think," Glenn says. "It will depend on students who seek to understand how human beings can best live together."
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