{"id":1277,"date":"2016-09-21T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:12:03","slug":"cola-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/2016\/09\/21\/cola-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 6-8: [Re]Defining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"conference banner\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1179\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Conference-onLibArts_webSlider_1600x545-copy-300x102.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Conference-onLibArts_webSlider_1600x545-copy-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Conference-onLibArts_webSlider_1600x545-copy-1024x348.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Conference-onLibArts_webSlider_1600x545-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\">History department members Robert Luckett,&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>Lomarsh Roopnarine,&nbsp;<span>Kofi Boukman Barima, Charles Holbrook, Joshua Cotton,&nbsp;Mario Azevedo, Rico Chapman, and Janice Brockley&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\">will be presenting at the Conference on the Liberal Arts 2016 at JSU on October 6-8. &nbsp;The conference will bring&nbsp;scholars from around the globe to&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">explore the reasons Liberal Arts disciplines are undervalued by students, parents, and others and to examine how we might [re]define or reframe our roles in an increasingly multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary academic world in which job preparedness appears to be the goal of higher education rather than critical and analytical thinking and writing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\">On Friday, October 7, a series of free plenary sessions will be available to the general public, including&nbsp;<strong style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit;font-style: inherit;line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline\">a keynote address by Dr. William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/strong>, at 2 p.m. in the JSU College of Liberal Arts room 166\/266. 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