We are a group of like-minded, self-selected faculty and staff who has studied the trends in enrollment and major selection of incoming students here at Augsburg College. Our initial analysis has fed our concern that students need to be encouraged..
We are a group of like-minded, self-selected faculty and staff who has studied the trends in enrollment and major selection of incoming students here at Augsburg College. Our initial analysis has fed our concern that students need to be encouraged and enable to consider early in the recruitment and admission process studying in the humanities. We believe that the college, like of others of its kind, needs to enhance and coordinate efforts to help students who are so inclined to identify and pursue their interests in the Humanities and Fine Arts.
We are investigating the challenge of getting potential Humanities and Fine Arts majors to heed the call of their vocation (to use the language of our Lutheran institution) given the pressures of “practical” education felt by a significant portion of the college’s incoming student population.
Our research and the documents we have produced examine the benefits of practical and easy-to-implement strategies designed to help students understand the value of our college’s expressed commitment to a liberal and practical education, and our work aims to show how implementation of certain strategies can be coordinated within and across departments by means of significant logistical support from the Department of Admissions and from the administration.
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New Directions in the Humanities
