Artwork: “Winding Road through Valley of Summer Fields” by Stephen Conroy
FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome
Suzanne Shanahan, Editor
This issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing focuses on civic virtue and, more specifically, civility and our ability to summon the courage to act on our convictions in difficult times.
For more than 250 years, higher education has served as an anchor for democracy in the United States. In fall 2022, Wes Siscoe, then a Virtues & Vocations post-doctoral fellow (now assistant professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University), wrote a compelling essay on civic virtue in higher education.
WE ASKED CAMPUS LEADERS:
“The fusing of faculty expertise with courageous and curious young people is why universities remain the crown jewel of our nation.” —Sian L. Beilock, President, Dartmouth
Good Engineering | Erhardt Graeff
Fostering a Healthy Democratic Culture
Good Politics | David E. Campbell
A Framework for Civil Discourse Found in the Lines of a Prayer
Good Education | Cristy Guleserian
Know Thy Neighbor: How Community Rehabilitates our Assertions
Good Medicine | Lester Liao
Good Leadership | Erica Brown
GOOD READS
SOUNDBITES
