Guilford to Host Friends Association for Higher Education Conference June 18-21
Guilford will host the Friends Association for Higher Education conference June 18-21. FAHE’s annual conference focuses on how Quaker pedagogy and practice can improve higher education, and the theme this year is “Education for the Abundant Life.”
Queries developed by the program committee include:
- How does the life or lifestyle to which you aspire compare with the models of success that the contemporary world offers?
- How do you discern the Spirit, personally and collectively? In your work? In your family life? In Friends organizations of which you are a part? In other organizations?
- What temptations or distractions does academia present to your discernment? What/whom do you need (spiritually, intellectually, in terms of community/collaboration etc.) to overcome them? How do you find/create what you need?
- How do you share your hope of the abundant life? What supports this hope in your academic/professional life?
- How do you engage with others to live abundantly?
- What "draws forth" abundance in your teaching, research and/or work with students?
- When scarcity threatens a project, a partnership, a plan or a hope, how do you/we respond?
Guilford faculty and staff engage students in many distinctive and powerful ways of learning—from interdisciplinary courses to principled problem solving to community learning to intriguing classroom pedagogies. Some of these initiatives will be highlighted through presentations during the conference.
FAHE conferences have been held annually since 1981 and have been hosted by Bryn Mawr, Earlham, Earlham School of Religion, George Fox, Guilford, Haverford, Malone, Swarthmore, Whittier, William Penn and Wilmington Colleges. Guilford last hosted the conference in 2001.
For more information about participating in the conference, contact Deborah Shaw in Friends Center by e-mailing dshaw@guilford.edu or calling 316-2326.
For more about FAHE, click here.