Conference: Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education

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Conference: Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education

Integrative Learning for Compassionate Action in an Interconnected World
February 22-25, 2007
Hotel Nikko
San Francisco, California

Do current education efforts address the whole human being — mind, heart, and spirit — in ways that contribute best to our future on this fragile planet? What steps can we take to make our colleges and universities places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff? This conference for faculty, administrators, student life professionals, and chaplains will address the relationships between:

  • Curriculum and values
  • Intellectual, aesthetic, and moral intelligences
  • Technical competency and compassionate action
  • Critical reasoning and contemplative inquiry
  • Vocation and life purpose


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Spotlight

Keynote speakers:

  • Alexander and Helen Astin “Assessing and Nurturing the Spiritual Life of College Students and Faculty” Read
  • Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela “Transcending Hatred, Engaging One’s Enemy through Dialogue: Unlocking the Human Spirit”
  • Robert Kegan “In Over Our Heads? The Hidden Curriculum of Adult Life”
  • Stephen Mittelstet, Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, Thomas Coburn “Is ‘community’ the heart of higher education? Three presidential perspectives”
  • Parker Palmer “The Precision of Poetry & the Passion of Science: An Education in Paradox”
  • Diana Chapman-Walsh “Threshold Keynote” Read


Blogs

Diana Chapman Walsh: Getting Started

This is my first-ever attempt at blogging ... so here goes. My first challenge is that I can't figure out how to left-justify the text. That in itself is an interesting metaphor.

I wanted to let conference participants know that my plan for the closing keynote is quite different than one might imagine from the conference program. I'll post below a few paragraphs of the introductory remarks I plan to make on Sunday morning, to give you a flavor of what I – with a lot of terrific help – will be trying to accomplish in that sesssion.
Chapman Walsh's blog

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AVAILABLE ON CD

Professionally recorded CDs of most of the keynote addresses are available for purchase ($12 each). You can order the CDs online at www.ConferenceRecording.com.

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