FutureU was impressed with PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER A. SNYDER'S powerful commentary, "A Liberal Education in Name Only" https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/23/liberal-education-name-only-opinion, published in the October 23, 2023 edition of INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION.

In this forum, Snyder will elaborate on his IHE article and draw on material from his forthcoming book to speak to the purpose and relevance of a liberal arts education.

Professor Snyder is the founding dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University, where is is also a professor of History and Director of British Studies. He is completing a visiting research fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford, and recently completed his St. John Henry Newman Scholar residency at Pittsburgh’s National Institute for Newman Studies. Snyder completed his graduate work (M.A. and Ph.D.) in Medieval History at Emory University. In addition to teaching at Emory, he has taught at the College of William & Mary and at Marymount University, where he served for nine years as Chair of the Department of History and Politics and for five years as Director of the Honors Program. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, where he majored in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Dr. Snyder has authored ten books and numerous articles in archaeology, history, literary criticism, ethics, and medieval studies. His most recent research has been in the history of the University of Oxford and on the influences of Oxford and Cambridge on American higher education.

Snyder will be joined in this forum by ADRIAN LENARDIC, professor, Rice University; RUBEN O. MARTINEZ, professor emeritus, Michigan State University; and NATHAN ROUSSEAU and LEWIS (Terry) DIBBLE, professor and senior lecturer, respectively, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus.

The forum is hosted by FRANK A. FEAR, professor emeritus, Michigan State University, who also produced this video for FUTUREU: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT VALUES AND CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION https://futureu.education/.

The Forum was held on November 24, 2023.

25 views of the live feed and the initial archived version

Cover graphic courtesy "The Torch."

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