Every year, the College of Liberal Arts recognizes five outstanding members of our teaching faculty with the Teaching Awards. The ceremony, held over everyone’s favorite video conferencing app, looked a little different this year, but the faculty’s accomplishments were as impressive as ever. Perhaps even more so given the extraordinary conditions they had to overcome.

It’s with a heavy heart that the College of Liberal Arts announces we have lost one of our own. Intellectual Heritage Assistant Professor Frank Leib will be dearly missed by our entire community. The college extends its deepest sympathies to his friends and family.

Each summer, the College of Liberal Arts’ Intellectual Heritage program takes its core text seminar abroad, giving dozens of students a mind and horizon-opening learning experience that lasts with them long after the monthlong trip ends. 

New York Times Journalist Maya Salam recently visited campus to speak with College of Liberal Arts Intellectual Heritage students about the need to fairly incorporate all genders in media coverage.

In Afghanistan, families sometimes dress their daughters as sons in a practice called bacha posh. Journalist and author Jenny Nordberg gave recently gave an on-campus talk to Intellectual Heritage students about this relatively secretive practice.