The Liberal Arts and Applied Learning: Thinking about Institutions and Thinking Institutionally

Award-winning cultural geographer and leadership executive Dr. Janel Curry writes about leadership in liberal arts education: “We need ways to model the living out of a liberal arts education for our students that help them balance these two essential components of a liberal arts education — understanding complexity and making decisions within this complexity.”

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Lessons from the Planning Commission

Leadership executive Dr. Janel Curry shares her observations and lessons learned from serving on the local planning commission in her township. Among the lessons: Aesthetics matter, safety comes with transparency, decision must be tied to standards and principles, the bar must be set high, to seek consensus but respect dissent, be visionary but pragmatic, and appearances make a difference.

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