List of Academic Planning Essays by Section

• Session 1: Opening Session: The Challenges Ahead
• Session 2: Learning Essential Skills
• Session 3: The Nature and Structure of Knowledge, and the Implications for Departments, Disciplines, and Interdisciplinary Programs
• Session 4: Wesleyan in the 21st Century: New Challenges, Technologies, Facilities
• Session 5: Conclusions, Assessment, and Priorities

Session 1
Opening Session: The Challenges Ahead

1. Susan F. Hirsch, "Finding Ourselves in Difference: Critical Ethnography in the New Century"

2. Steven Horst, "Deep the Hunger: Liberal Education and Local Culture in the 21st Century"

3. Robert A. Rosenbaum, "The Relation of the Academy to Society"

4. Richard Slotkin, "Teaching and Scholarship at Wesleyan"

1. Gage Averill, "Skills, Attributes, and Competencies in Arts Education"

2. Peter Frenzel and Anne Greene, "Wesleyan Writing"

3. Laura Grabel, "Essential Skills for Science and Mathematics Students: Creation of a Level Playing Field and Beyond"

4. Paula Sossen Lawson, "A History of General Education Reforms United States Colleges and Universities"

5. Scott Plous, "Enhancing Diversity at Wesleyan: A Social Psychological Perspective"

6. Rob Rosenthal, "Essential Skills in the Social Sciences"

1. Susanne Fusso, "A Humanist's Perspective on the Wesleyan Curriculum"

2. Gary David Shaw, "A Consummate Education"

3. William Herbst, "The Ideal Curriculum: One Scientist's View"

4. Ron Kuivila and Jeffrey Schiff, "SURFING THE TSUNAMI: Arts Education at the Millennial Moment"

5. Ákos Östör, "Cultural Difference, Visual Image, and the University: An Intercultural Education for the 21st Century"

6. Gayle Pemberton, "On becoming descript: Interdisciplinarity and the Curriculum"

7. Ann-Louise Shapiro (in collaboration with Christina Crosby, Jill Morawski, and Joe Rouse), "Report on the Role of Interdisciplinary Scholarship in a Liberal Education"

8. Michael Weir, "Involving Students in the Creation of Knowledge"

1. Jane Edwards, "Responding to Globalization: Strategies in the Liberal Tradition"

2. Steven Horst, "Liberal Education and the Information Age"

3. Irina M. Russu, "One View on Science Education at Wesleyan in the 21st Century"

4. Khachig Tololyan, "The Humanities in the Twentyfirst Century"

5. Robert Adams, "The Wesleyan Library of the Future"

1. Nathan Brody, "Can Learning Be Measured"

2. George R. Creeger, "In Their Own Words: Trustee Assessment of Their Wesleyan Education"

3. Charles Lemert, "Liberal Learning, Ethics, and the Coming Triage Society"

4. Don Moon, Paper on civic education and leadership

5. Peter Patton, "If technology may indeed 'unbundle the university,' will the residential college become archaic?"

6. Mark Slobin, "From Multiculturalism to Convivencia"

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