Fast February is Almost Gone!
Many students have already taken advantage of the opportunity to earn DOUBLE Impact Points for courses completed in February. There are only 2 DAYS LEFT TO CAPITALIZE ON THIS UNIQUE OFFERING. As we unveil several new courses in the upcoming weeks, scholarships will be awarded as well, so now is the time to begin accumulating Impact Points. The top Impact Point earner will be announced on our Facebook site in the March edition of our newsletter In The Round…
Real Friends
By Publius | Social media ischanging the nature of friendship, at least at the level of communication, but perhaps in other ways as well. People we perhaps have never met nor will ever meet in person can be close friends through Facebook or Twitter. And there is certainly ample evidence to suggest that not all these friends are who they appear to be online. And that is not to say that such things are limited to cyberspace. Many have experienced the shock…
College Learning Assessment
By Publius | More and more, college students who are seeking post-college employment are finding a Bachelors diploma is not enough proof that they are a good hire. Employers are wanting to determine if the potential employee really learned anything in school that makes them a worthy hire. And so an old skill is being reborn: the art of the…
New FTU Course: Are You Grateful?
By Publius | Cicero claimed that “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” Was he right? And are you grateful? AVERAGE TIME: 3-4 HOURS. 2,000 IMPACT POINTS…
Does This Gun Come in Pink?
Recently, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the official ban on women serving in combat. The military is often a social experimentation lab for our government, and this is no exception. Apart from the obvious concern for the lives of the women sent into these newly allowed assignments, other concerns are…
New FTU Course: Hedonism: Eat, Drink and Be Merry (?)
By Publius | Pleasure-seeking is a popular goal. So how do we define it, and who does it best? Consider four different points of view, and your own. AVERAGE TIME: 2-3 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS.
No Babies, No Future?
By Eric Metaxas | Taro Aso, Japan’s finance minister, has only been on the job for a month but he’s already stirred up enough controversy to last a lifetime. In January, he made headlines around the world when he told a panel on social security reforms that the elderly should be permitted to “hurry up and die.” That is the kind of comment that both causes great offense and hits too close to home. It hits too close to home because much of Japan’s ever-more-dire fiscal problems can be traced to…
Better Learning through Primary Sources
By Jerome C. Foss | Politics students at Saint Vincent College benefit from the emphasis on studying original works, not textbooks. | As the fall semester came to an end, I was reminded of the importance of teaching politics through primary sources. While grading my finals I received one of those gratifying emails from a student who had just
Whole Foods CEO Mackey Advocates Conscious Capitalism
By Ira Stoll | In his new book, the co-founder of Whole Foods Market promotes free-market thinking while criticizing Wall Street. John Mackey, the cofounder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, has a flair for well-timed entries into public policy debates, as readers of his 2009 Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking Obamacare may recall. Now Mackey is back, along with a co-author, Raj Sisodia, with a new book, Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. It has just been issued by the Harvard Business Review Press, and it is bristling…