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That is a really big project and a really exciting one. 聽Andy Hakin did his Fiat Lux address in the theater in 2012 asking about, all of us in this university community, mainly faculty, 'What about Lib. Ed.?聽 What do we want to happen with Lib. Ed.? 聽How do we understand it more? 聽How do the students understand it more?' 聽And what had happened, going back now again to my early days, most of the faculty here, the founding members were here when I started. 聽And they were all based on liberal education, the philosophy of the institution which is, you know, being a good citizen, it boils down to being a good citizen. 聽And, I never realized until fast forward so many decades, we聽lost the way, and some of the things ...聽our culture was changing. 聽And some of the things coming up that people had to deal with was really at odds to the early culture that I started working in, here.

Back then, having the liberal ed.聽philosophy, you were truly working together, everyone was seen as a cog in the wheel. 聽Later on, not so much. 聽It started to be tiers of power I guess you would say, layers. 聽Which I thought was odd because it just wasn鈥檛 at all what we used to have in the beginning and I realize it was small back then, but still there was a shift you could tell in the culture happening and I think that鈥檚 why Andy grabbed that. 聽And,聽how do we get back to our roots? 聽You know, people are not understanding what Lib Ed. is. 聽Faculty members would come, because we grew, new faculty and staff would come on board and they did not have that as their background.

We would use liberal education, we would say our philosophy, our teaching education was liberal education ...聽blah, blah, blah ...聽and it was a buzz word.聽 So with a fantastic group of people on this team, and when we started going out and doing these focus groups, and asking people. 聽No, not one person could tell us what liberal education meant. 聽So that told us that there was a definite culture shift to the point now that no one could describe it ...聽you know even have an idea of what it is.

The students that we interviewed all thought that it was GLER. 聽Many faculty said well that鈥檚 GLER: 聽the General Liberal Education Requirement.聽 So that, just that one small part of Lib. Ed. as the GLER became the defining factor of Lib. Ed. which is not at all what it is.

And then we went on to just say,聽 'What are the outcomes for students?'聽 When we interviewed the alumni, they could tell you what the outcomes were and how they benefited but current students couldn鈥檛 even see it. 聽So what we鈥檝e done is build these things now, try to get as many faculty as we could to build it into their course outlines.

Our team has worked very hard to get that developed and into our calendar so that now people looking at it will see聽that is how we stand out against other institutions. 聽This is our niche. 聽This is our competitive advantage. 聽And it really suits the world today, the millennials and everything and how you get involved globally and help the world and people succeed. 聽And that is getting back to our roots. 聽We have had it all along, we just maybe didn鈥檛 realize we may have lost it for a while. 聽Now we are getting back to our roots and I just think it is fabulous. 聽It really will change our culture, or ingrain our culture even more.

(Interviewed by Diane McKenzie)