Dr. Karen Lawrence explains why alternative, narrative modes of documenting student progress toward the acquisition of wisdom take precedence at a rigorous liberal arts college.

http://chronicle.com/article/On_Leadership_video/146407/

QUALITATIVE NARRATIVE ASSESSMENT: CORE TEXT PROGRAMS IN REVIEW, Vol. 1. Kathleen Burk and David DiMattio, Editors, is now available as an e-publication from the Association of Core Texts and Courses.   Publication in hard copy to follow in Summer 2015.

Qualitative Narrative Assessment: Core Text Programs in Review, vol.1.  Kathleen Burk and David DiMattio, Editors.  Association of Core Texts and Courses, 2015.

Approaching Religious Texts With “Spiritual, But Not Religious” Readers.  

Intersection of Religious and Secular Cores Conference

Sponsored by the Rhodes College “Project for Democracy,” Pepperdine University Seaver College, The Apgar Foundation, and the Association of Core Texts and Courses Liberal Arts Institute.

Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

25-27 September 2014

Official University Academic Bulletin

2013-14 University of Dallas Bulletin

THE EXECUTIVE EDITING PROCESS:

Editing documents for C-Suite Signature requires a specialized combination of precision and nuance.  The following four documents illustrate the exacting process of clarifying language while maintaining the signatory’s authentic voice.

Executive’s Original Draft:

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation

Interactive Revision Document:

Quantitative Narrative Assessment Invitation Interactive Revision_30oct14

Final Editorial Revision:

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation w_KB edits_30Oct14

Final Document Over Executive’s Signature

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation v. 3

Guest Editor.  Melic Review-Hope Melic 3.1 (Summer 2000).

From the Guest Editor

Audio: Reading G. M. Hopkins. Carrion Comfort

Qualitative Narrative Assessment: Core Text Programs in Review, Vol. 1.

Volume Editor’s Introduction:

Qualitative Narrative Assessment: Core Text Programs in Review

Final Institutional Report:

The Telemachus Project

The Executive Editing Process: 

Executive’s First Draft:

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation

Interactive working document showing editorial revisions:

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation w_KB edits_30Oct14

Editor’s Final Draft:

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation w_KB edits_30Oct14

Final Document Over Executive Director’s Signature

Qualitative Narrative Assessment Invitation v. 3

POETRY

Featured Poet. Melic Review. 2.1 (Summer 1999). Six Poems

Proem: A Sonnet (Pushcart Prize Nominee)

Adieu to New Orleans (Pushcart Prize Nominee)

Leaf

Grape

Entonneau

Nacre

PROSE

Savoy: Where Words Are Food For Thought (Archive)

Essays

From the Shade of the Ivory Tower

Clinton and the Jesuits

Bi-weekly column: Deep in the Heart

Deep in the Heart. Seven Columns.

Please Permit Me to Introduce Myself

Angels, Pt. 1

Angels, Pt. 2

Millennium Dispatch

Swim Lesson 1: Lysistrata in a Speedo

Swim Lesson 2: Beowulf in a Drag Suit

Swim Lesson 9: Nike

Good Grief!