January 26, 2007

A. J. Senchack, holder of the Lucy K. Brown Chair in International Business and professor of business, attended the January 2006 conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. This year's New Orleans meeting on liberal education and democracy's big questions focused most prominently on efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Its two overarching questions were how to prepare students to be responsible citizens and leaders and to apply the lessons of Katrina and Rita to their local communities and institutional missions. Senchack's participation in this conference continues his current research interest in the relationship of liberal arts and business education and augments the efforts of the business faculty's two-year curriculum reinvention.

January 19, 2007

An article titled "The Sociology Major at Institutions of Higher Education in the United States" appears in the January 2007 edition of the peer-review journal Teaching Sociology. The article is authored by Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar in the Sociology and Anthropology Department. Research in the article examines the extent to which national recommendations on the undergraduate sociology major, adopted by the American Sociological Association in 1990, were implemented at 100 colleges and universities across the country a decade later.

Aaron Prevots, assistant professor of French, presented a paper titled "Between Coal and Stars: Reenchantment in Jacques Reda's 'Les bretelles etoilees'" at the December 2006 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pa. The panel addressed recuperative themes and approaches to Paris in this French writer's recent work.