Liberal Artists Consider The State of the Liberal Arts

Liberal Artists Consider
The State of the Liberal Arts

You might guess it’s about
Time: goals, clarifications,
expectations, load, demand,
learning-theory, contact hours,
rigor, easy, lazy party-start
“academics” : accreditation,
doing the math, smart rooms
power points and bullets,
accounting, scheduling ,
calendar, number of weeks.
number of courses,
atmosphere, environed
mentalism…

(Ok: it IS an environ mental issue
—the Other Environmentalism,
not polar bears & a Leeds Certified
president on a golf cart environmentalism. )

You might conclude that
by releasing more whine
students will have more
TIME (schola: "leisure")
& will fill it by going to the
library during the day,
deferring their premature
start-up of weekend
celebrations; and the
faculty will then ruminate,
speculate, contemplate,
correct and grade more
papers efficiently and
consider a sunset.

This conversation could
have occurred in the 70’s
with the exact same token
terms in play to blame, explain,
account for, interpret, give
Reasons Why--scapegoating
the State of the Art of Hectic
Stress & Un-Wellness lacking
a proper Integration of the Triad

"Wellness" wouldn’t have
been an emergent value, not
yet a term to conjure. Nor ADD,
ADHD, Riddling. the universe,
Atterall & the practice of binge
& purge & cutting the epidemic
bi-polarization of normal mood
rings, CB radio, Pong, PC’s.
laptops, videos, video gaming,
x-treme sports, risking business,
Ipods, Iphones e-mailing, texting,
sexting…

I’ve lost track of the items
reconfiguring the— what?
psychic environment that has
occurred right under my very
gnosis the past few decades
that might could be factored
in to what it means to be a
schoolar. .

Technologically: we've come a
long way since Wite Out which
could make a difference in our
Academic Affairs.

Suffering a see change right
before our very I's. More
than for the Time being.

Do I overstate? Or under?
I need help, as usual.
Rate my assessment.

xxxooo, Sam