Reach | Summer/Spring 2007
Alumni
Checking Our Blind Spots
World-reowned psychologist Fanny Cheung has worked to eliminate cultural and scientific blind spots at home and abroad.
July 13th, 2007
By Danny LaChanceJust to Know
CLA graduate Ted Meinhover writes a letter home about his experiences in Indonesia.
July 13th, 2007Not for the Faint of Heart
Catherine Guisan and Stephen Dickinson are on a quest for healing—on a personal and global scale.
July 13th, 2007
By Eugenia SmithIn the Zone
CLA graduate Jeff Ochs started Breakthrough, an organization which helps underserved students get ready for college.
July 13th, 2007
By Karen Olson
Awards
CLA faculty make their marks on CLA, Minnesota, and the world.
July 27th, 2007
From the Dean
Building a Future for CLA
CLA's new dean, James A. Parente, Jr., talks about how the college will thrive in the 21st century.
September 3rd, 2009
interview by Mary PattockOn fulfilling the promise of the liberal arts
February 13th, 2009Uncommon Bonds
Interim Dean James Parente on the connections of the liberal arts to each other and the world.
April 3rd, 2008
Donors
Teaching Reconciliation
Catherine Guisan and her students discuss the meaning of the term political reconciliation
July 27th, 2007
Faculty Notes
David Wilkins
American Indian Studies
David Wilkins will never forget Lois Louis and Vine Deloria, two professors who made an enormous difference in his life.
July 30th, 2007David Noble
American Studies
David Noble depends on classroom learning to teach his students that they're studying real people with real problems.
July 30th, 2007Jason McGrath
“If you need to engage in analysis and interpretation, in-class learning provides something that online learning can't, because in the give-and-take process of hearing and contemplating others' ideas and testing your own against them, you will actually come to a much deeper understanding."
Participating in class discussions, says McGrath, enables students “to approach cultural texts on a more sophisticated and complex level, and to get a richer experience of culture."
July 30th, 2007Professors Ponder... The Importance of Classroom Learning
In this age of experiential learning and cyberlearning, the art of human interaction in the classroom continues to thrive. Even large lecture classes have taken on new life. Why do classrooms still matter? What can students get from the classroom that they might not be able to find online or in the field? Here's what some CLA faculty members are saying:
July 30th, 2007Biking to Discover
From July through December 2007, Louis Mendoza, chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of Chicano Studies, will bicycle around the perimeter of the United States.
July 27th, 2007Not for the Faint of Heart
Catherine Guisan and Stephen Dickinson are on a quest for healing—on a personal and global scale.
July 13th, 2007
By Eugenia SmithLittle Boxes
What are you thinking when you check those race and ethnicity boxes on forms and applications? Four CLA scholars have been studying the role those boxes play in maintaining and eradicating social inequality.
July 13th, 2007Head of the Class
In an age of on-line and experiential learning, why do the four walls of the classroom still matter?
By Danny LaChance- Laine Bergeson contributed to this story
July 13th, 2007Seaquest
Christine Baeumler illustrates science's most pressing concerns—literally.
July 13th, 2007
By Linda ShapiroConnecting the Silos
Barbara Frey explores the link between human rights and small firearms.
July 13th, 2007
By Mary Shafer
Outreach
Up and Coming
CLA's new K-12 outreach office is closing the gap between the University's learning spaces and Minnesota's underserved communities.
July 13th, 2007
By Emily SohnLife-Shaping Art
Local high school students blur art and life on the University's stage.
July 13th, 2007
By Linda Shapiro
Research
Space Crafts
We may take for granted the spaces we inhabit, but CLA scholars who study space and place don't. From the cul-de-sacs of suburbs to the berths of trans-Pacific cargo ships, we shape and inhabit space—and are shaped by it—in ways that have profound implications in our lives.
By Danny LaChance
July 13th, 2007
Student (Undergraduate)
Class Matters
What's happening in CLA's undergrad classrooms? We checked in with one of the smallest—and one of the largest. (Just so you know … 42 percent of CLA classes have fewer than 20 students.)
July 27th, 2007
By Laine BergesonOn the Spot: Growth
What role does the CLA experience play in shaping students' identities? At the end of last semester, we asked CLA juniors and seniors to reflect on how they've changed since they first entered college.
July 27th, 2007
Interviews by Andrew Hogan
Student (Graduate)
New Release
How do you make a documentary about prisoners without showing barbed wire, leg shackles, or prison bars? Ph.D. Candidate Rachel Raimist has a poetic answer.
July 13th, 2007
By Danny LaChance
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