Nathaniel Urban and Jonathan Pidluzny, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Nathaniel Urban and Jonathan Pidluzny

Nathaniel Urban is Associate Director of Curricular Improvement at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. He is a graduate of the Ashbrook Scholar Program at Ashland University, where he examined the value of liberal education as described by John Henry Newman in The Idea of a University. Jonathan Pidluzny is Vice President of Academic Affairs at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. He is former Associate Professor of Political Science at Morehead State University, where he taught for 10 years. Dr. Pidluzny received his Ph.D. in political science at Boston College and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Alberta.

Higher Education’s Contemporary Identity Crisis

By Nathaniel Urban and Jonathan Pidluzny|2020-03-04T17:01:04-06:00March 6th, 2020|Categories: Classical Education, Culture, Education, Liberal Learning|

Many factors have conspired to fuel the crises roiling higher education today. Perhaps the most important, and the reason so few institutions react appropriately when they arise, is that colleges and universities are facing a crisis of purpose and identity. Another day, another campus crisis.[1] And yet the truly urgent problems in higher education—students learning [...]