Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 12:02:15 -0600 Subject: FW: Dress Codes for Faculty??? From: Kate Hale <halecl@uwec.edu> Message-ID: <BDD60647.EF9%halecl@uwec.edu>
Marcie meant this to go to the whole group, so I'm forwarding it.
DRESS CODE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Like, what kind of dress code?
Kate
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From: "Bakker, Marcie" <MBAKKER@cvtc.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:23:17 -0600
To: Kate Hale <halecl@uwec.edu>
Subject: RE: Liberal Arts/Politcal Liberalism
I teach at CVTC, the "hotbed" of liberalism (tongue-in-cheek)! Next week
at the Executive Cabinet meeting (our school's weekly meeting of all
administrators), the HR Director is introducing a 'dress code' for the
staff here. Has anyone heard of such a thing at a public college? I'd
seriously be interested in your responses.
Thanks,
Marcie Bakker
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[mailto:sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Kate Hale
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:37 PM
To: Preston, Elizabeth; EC Justice
Subject: Liberal Arts/Politcal Liberalism
One instructive exercise: look up "liberal" in the Oxford English
Dictionary and note how both positive & negative connotations are woven
into the differing definitions.
I want to clarify that I am not thinking the UWS group should back off
from the word "liberal" in either phrase (l. arts, l. education). My
point is simply that those we hope to reach already have, for the most
part, a conception of the word. In speaking about the role of the
liberal arts, or of a liberal education, we will need to be alert to how
those to whom we speak "hear" the word.
Some in the UWS group want to avoid "liberal arts," hearing it as a
discipline-based term. I understand that, but I also think it is less
likely than "liberal education" to rile up the citizenry. Not that they
oughtn't be riled up from time-to-time.
My own experience was that a liberal arts education did liberalize both
my theology and my politics. Maybe that speaks to Dan's point in his
earlier post . . . . What do others think? Is that kind of
liberalization a natural outgrowth of studying the liberal arts? I
should add that I took my B.A. from a small, private church-support LA
college-which was decidedly not politically or theologically liberal.
So it was not that my professors had a "liberal agenda"--I would argue
that it was something inherent in the studies themselves.
I'd love to hear more if people are interested in continuing this, or we
can take it to private email if others would prefer. It is a busy time
of the semester.
Thanks--
Kate Hale
English
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