The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit of excellence was the very principle of man’s existence,” Rubio declared, and excellence should be the driving force of American education today. Where did American culture originate? Was it on board the Mayflower? Was it at Jamestown? Was it in medieval Europe?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The exiles said Castro and Chavez initially garnered popular support by promising change and prosperity, a tantalizing prospect for the poor who were fed up with government corruption. But neither dictator delivered on those promises and both countries descended into more poverty...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The software claims to draw on platforms such as Khan Academy and Membean, while personalizing student pacing with children advancing only after mastering material. After students have “crushed their academics in under two hours,” the rest of the day involves workshops in public speaking, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, physical activity, and...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Communists and socialists continue to present the West with a dilemma: What should a free society do with people who use the freedoms of speech to advocate for systems that would radically transform, or in some cases abolish, the economic and political order that made those freedoms possible?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Fewer teens are claiming to be homosexual or bisexual after years of that number rising. “The trends are striking,” Twenge wrote on her blog, especially after comparing them with data from a decade ago. Twenge admitted to having no answer for the decline. “I have to confess: I have no idea.” After comparing the CDC’s data from the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The mastery of being human requires continuing education for the soul. That’s what you get when you tackle a great book. Lawyers, teachers, and those in other professions must take continuing education courses to certify mastery of content. It got me thinking... what would a course that covered mastery of being human look like?