November 2010
November 3rd, 2010
Written by Diane Reynolds in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
On April 9, 1945, German Lutheran theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp as an enemy to the Nazi state.From the beginning of the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer grasped the evil and anti-Christian ideology of the regime. Not long after his return from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where his faith was transformed by his experiences at...
November 2nd, 2010
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 36 Comments
About race and ethnicity, that is.Rather than just participating in a sporadic conversation born of out of a reaction to some incident beamed to us by satellite via our favorite medium of communication, or something we witnessed at work or play, we must willingly engage in whatever opportunity that presents itself as we go about our daily lives.All forms of passive engagement only require a...
November 2nd, 2010
Written by Sam Richards in National Collegiate Dialogue with 26 Comments
Sam Richards is a sociologist and award-winning teacher who has been inspiring undergraduate students at Penn State since 1990. In an effort to explain to his students about the social and sociological issues facing our world today, he created this video titled: A Radical Experiment In EmpathyEvery semester, 725 students register for his Race and Ethnic Relations course, one of the most popular...
November 1st, 2010
Written by Jodie Blankenship in Cover Stories with 2 Comments
The hallowed halls of higher education may be filling up with more of the same faces this fall semester. In fact, since 2000, the trend of increased diversity at colleges and universities is in serious jeopardy of subsiding. Who is the culprit threatening higher education diversity? That culprit is the current economic climate, and the states’ reaction of slashing their budgets, thus negatively...