🧵Prof @Hillsdale Matthew Spalding's statement on his appointment to the New College's Board of Trustees:
"I appreciate the complimentary nods to Hillsdale College, but we are not going to serve New College’s mission by remaking it into a carbon copy of another institution."
"I appreciate the complimentary nods to Hillsdale College, but we are not going to serve New College’s mission by remaking it into a carbon copy of another institution."
"As a professor, dean, and vice president at a successful liberal arts college, my focus is on the work at hand: restoring New College’s 'distinctive mission' as the 'residential liberal arts honors college' of Florida."
"In the liberal arts, the college—which means a partnership, one between students and faculty—works together and comes into conversation with great thinkers and writers who've asked timeless questions about human purpose, about the good, and justice, and how to live well."
"The very aim of liberal arts education is to liberate the mind from current fads and popular ideologies by inviting students to address these questions in pursuit of the truth about what it means to be fully human."
"That pursuit transcends contemporary politics. Such an education teaches one how to think, not what to think. The surging enrollment at my home institution and others like it shows that students hunger for such serious academic inquiry."
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