With respect to work, scholars and other artists are a special, fortunate class. They work, but no one tells them how it must be done. Even in their work they have the greatest blessing which a [person] can have-freedom to do the thing that seems to be worth doing. And they must be responsible not to the men who pay them, but only to the causes which they choose and to the men [and women] who work besides them. Their work and worship coincide.

To be a scholar or an artist is to work directly for the things you care about. Such men [and women] do not escape responsibility; rather they welcome it and will not give it up. Their duty is to care about the things for which they work-and, if a conflict comes, to care for nothing else (Alexander Meiklejohn, Freedom and the College, p.23).

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Teaching Philosophy

University and Community Service

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Travel Adventures

Summary of Dissertation--Learning Communities in Action: The Programmatic Experiences of Faculty and Students in the First Year Program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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