MOOCs: Been There, Done That, Want It Different Eric Rabkin is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Language and Literature and of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His current research interests include fantasy and science fiction, graphic narrative, the quantitative study of culture, traditional literary criticism and theory, and [...]

18th Annual Leadership Symposium Thriving: A New Vision for Student Success Laurie A. Schreiner is chair and professor in the Department of Doctoral Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. She was project director on two federal grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) through the US Department of Education; the first [...]

Richard Aldrich is Professor and Chair of the Section of Neurobiology in the School of Biological Sciences and the Karl Folkers Chair II in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on the council and as president of the Society of General Physiologists, and is a Fellow and president [...]

Situating Moral Justification: Rethinking the Mission of Moral Epistemology Alison Jaggar is College Professor of Distinction in Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jaggar works in the areas of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective. In the past decade, her work has introduced [...]

Deborah Willis, PhD, is chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. Exhibitions of her work include A Sense of Place, Frick, University of Pittsburgh, 2005; Regarding Beauty, University of Wisconsin, [...]

Thomas Anderson is the William M. Scholl Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He is a specialist in the literature, history and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean. In 2003 he was awarded the Kellogg Institute’s Faculty Residential Fellowship, which facilitated his research [...]

Mapping the World of Images: On Malraux’s Museum Without Walls Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the world’s foremost art historians and philosophers of aesthetics. A recipient of the College Art Association’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, he is the author of 35 books, with a range of subject matter that defies quick [...]

Jason Kilmer is a research assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of Washington and works in both a student affairs and research capacity. He serves as an investigator on several studies evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol and drug use by college students. He is also the assistant director of [...]

Andrés Di Tella, Argentinean filmmaker, professor and writer, studied literature at Oxford. His work is intimately related to Argentinean contemporary history, to the large migrations of the 20th century and to the exploration of subjectivity and private life in the documentary genre. Family plots, the intersection between private and social issues, the political value of [...]

True Champions Stand Up Ben Cohen, MBE, is among the world’s greatest athletes. An England Rugby World Cup champion, he is second in all-time scoring for his country and first among straight athletes to focus his philanthropic efforts for the benefit of LGBT people. In May 2011, Cohen retired at the top of his game [...]