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• Checking Our Blind Spots

  World-reowned psychologist Fanny Cheung has worked to eliminate cultural and scientific blind spots at home and abroad.
  By Danny LaChance

  July 13th, 2007

• Just to Know

  CLA graduate Ted Meinhover writes a letter home about his experiences in Indonesia.

  July 13th, 2007

• In the Zone

  CLA graduate Jeff Ochs started Breakthrough, an organization which helps underserved students get ready for college.
  By Karen Olson

  July 13th, 2007

Awards

• CLA faculty make their marks on CLA, Minnesota, and the world.

  July 27th, 2007

Donors

• Teaching Reconciliation

  Catherine Guisan and her students discuss the meaning of the term political reconciliation

  July 27th, 2007

Faculty Notes

• David Wilkins

  American Indian Studies

  David Wilkins will never forget Lois Louis and Vine Deloria, two professors who made an enormous difference in his life.

  July 30th, 2007

• David Noble

  American Studies

  David Noble depends on classroom learning to teach his students that they're studying real people with real problems.

  July 30th, 2007

• Jason McGrath

  “If you need to engage in analysis and interpretation, in-class learning provides something that online learning can't, because in the give-and-take process of hearing and contemplating others' ideas and testing your own against them, you will actually come to a much deeper understanding."

  Participating in class discussions, says McGrath, enables students “to approach cultural texts on a more sophisticated and complex level, and to get a richer experience of culture."

  July 30th, 2007

• Professors Ponder... The Importance of Classroom Learning

  In this age of experiential learning and cyberlearning, the art of human interaction in the classroom continues to thrive. Even large lecture classes have taken on new life. Why do classrooms still matter? What can students get from the classroom that they might not be able to find online or in the field? Here's what some CLA faculty members are saying:

  July 30th, 2007

• Biking to Discover

  From July through December 2007, Louis Mendoza, chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of Chicano Studies, will bicycle around the perimeter of the United States.

  July 27th, 2007

• Little Boxes

  What are you thinking when you check those race and ethnicity boxes on forms and applications? Four CLA scholars have been studying the role those boxes play in maintaining and eradicating social inequality.
  

  • Hazardous to your health
  • Dysfunction's function
  • A homogenous mosaic
  • Colorblind or colorbind?
  • Difference 101: a short syllabus
  July 13th, 2007

• Head of the Class

  In an age of on-line and experiential learning, why do the four walls of the classroom still matter?
  By Danny LaChance

  - Laine Bergeson contributed to this story

  July 13th, 2007

• Seaquest

  Christine Baeumler illustrates science's most pressing concerns—literally.
  By Linda Shapiro

  July 13th, 2007

• Connecting the Silos

  Barbara Frey explores the link between human rights and small firearms.
  By Mary Shafer

  July 13th, 2007

Outreach

• Up and Coming

  CLA's new K-12 outreach office is closing the gap between the University's learning spaces and Minnesota's underserved communities.
  By Emily Sohn

  July 13th, 2007

• Life-Shaping Art

  Local high school students blur art and life on the University's stage.
  By Linda Shapiro

  July 13th, 2007

Research

• Space Crafts

  We may take for granted the spaces we inhabit, but CLA scholars who study space and place don't. From the cul-de-sacs of suburbs to the berths of trans-Pacific cargo ships, we shape and inhabit space—and are shaped by it—in ways that have profound implications in our lives.
  

  • Scenes From the Mall
  • Deep Impact
  • Haunted Places
  • OurSpace
  • Trading Spaces

  By Danny LaChance

  July 13th, 2007

Student (Undergraduate)

• Class Matters

  What's happening in CLA's undergrad classrooms? We checked in with one of the smallest—and one of the largest. (Just so you know … 42 percent of CLA classes have fewer than 20 students.)
  By Laine Bergeson

  July 27th, 2007

• On the Spot: Growth

  What role does the CLA experience play in shaping students' identities? At the end of last semester, we asked CLA juniors and seniors to reflect on how they've changed since they first entered college.
  Interviews by Andrew Hogan

  July 27th, 2007

Student (Graduate)

• New Release

  How do you make a documentary about prisoners without showing barbed wire, leg shackles, or prison bars? Ph.D. Candidate Rachel Raimist has a poetic answer.
  By Danny LaChance

  July 13th, 2007

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