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Praise for The Heart of Higher Education THE HEART OF PARKER J. PALMER is a highly Parker J. Palmer & Arthur Zajonc respected writer, teacher, and activist. ZP HIGHER Hmiasn wy owrakl ksps eoafk lsi fde,e ienpcllyu dtoin pge eodpulec ainti on, “ Phiaglmheerr eadnudc Zataiojonn. Tc hheayv es hisoswue du sa h coowm cpoelllleingge sc aanll df ourn civhearnsgiteie asn cda nre bnee wal in ajoalm with Megan Scribner transformed by taking a more integrated approach to teaching and learning ne EDUCATION medicine, religion, law, philanthropy, cr l that focuses on the inner lives of their students and faculty.” politics, and social change. Author of seven books, including the best sellers —Alexander and Helen Astin, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA l T The Courage to Teach (now in its tenth “ At a moment when many are dreaming of an integrative form of higher H anniversary edition), Let Your Life Speak, THE education that unites intellectual rigor with compassion and love, Palmer and E The Heart of Higher Education is an and A Hidden Wholeness, his work has been recognized with ten honorary Zajonc invite us to engage in conversations designed to infuse the academy H invitation to everyone who cares about with meaning, purpose, and soul. For those who yearn to transform colleges and HEART the academy to revisit its roots and help doctorates and a number of national E universities from sterile, vacuous spaces to places of hope, possibility, and respect awards. Named one of the “most A OF reclaim its highest calling. for everything human, this is the book you have been waiting for.” R infl uential senior leaders” in higher — Laura I. Rendón, professor of higher education, Iowa State University, and author, T education, he holds a Ph.D. from the Parker J. Palmer, best-selling author of Sentipensante Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation University of California at Berkeley. O The Courage to Teach and founder of the HIGHER “ Parker Palmer and Arthur Zajonc call for a renewal of our commitment to F Center for Courage & Renewal, and ARTHUR ZAJONC is professor of inspiring deeper thinking and educating the whole person. This book should H Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics and physics at Amherst College and has been and will inspire debate about our larger purpose, about how we can go beyond director of the Center for Contemplative I a Fulbright professor at the University the traditional silos in which we work for the sake of individual and institutional G Mind in Society, advocate a holistic of Innsbruck in Austria. He is the author transformation.” H approach to teaching and learning that EDUCATION of several books, including Meditation as —Anthony Marx, president, Amherst College E honors the whole human being—mind, Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing R heart, and spirit. The Heart of Higher Becomes Love and Catching the Light: “ What should be at the center of our teaching and our students’ learning? Palmer E Education offers a rich interplay of The Entwined History of Light and Mind. and Zajonc take up this simple but daunting question and provide the most solid D analysis, theory, and action options and He currently directs the Center for ground yet on which to hold a conversation about the heart of our enterprise. U models to help colleges and universities Contemplative Mind in Society, which They reimagine higher education in a way commensurate with the magnitude C become places that awaken the deepest of our problems and offer us practical paths toward implementa- supports appropriate inclusion of A potential in students, faculty, and staff. tion. Integrative education is the most important reformation of contemplative methods in higher T The authors propose an approach to higher learning since the rise of the modern university. This education. I book can help us achieve it.” O educational renewal grounded in MEGAN SCRIBNER is an editor — Anthony Lising Antonio, associate professor of education N collegiality and conversation. and associate director, Stanford Institute for Higher Education and writer who has worked with Research The Heart of Higher Education is for numerous foundations and educational all who are new to the fi eld of organizations. She is coeditor of EDUCATION/HIGHER A CALL TTOO RRENEWAL integrative education, all who want Teaching with Fire and Leading from Within $24.95 U.S. | 29.95 Canada and coauthor of The Courage to Teach l to deepen their understanding of Guide for Refl ection and Renewal. She its challenges and prospects, and all www.josseybass.com Transforming thhe AAcademy through serves as an advisor to the Fetzer Institute. who want to practice and promote Collegial Conversations this vital approach to teaching and l learning on their campuses. Jacket design by Michael Cook The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY THROUGH COLLEGIAL CONVERSATIONS ^ Parker J. Palmer and Arthur Zajonc, with Megan Scribner Foreword by Mark Nepo TheJossey-Bass HigherandAdultEducationSeries Copyright©2010byParkerJ.PalmerandArthurZajonc.Allrightsreserved. PublishedbyJossey-Bass AWileyImprint 989MarketStreet,SanFrancisco,CA94103-1741—www.josseybass.com Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedin anyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,scanning,oroth- erwise,exceptaspermittedunderSection107or108ofthe1976UnitedStatesCopyrightAct, withouteitherthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher,orauthorizationthroughpayment oftheappropriateper-copyfeetotheCopyrightClearanceCenter,Inc.,222RosewoodDrive, Danvers,MA01923,978-750-8400,fax978-646-8600,orontheWebatwww.copyright.com. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Palmer,ParkerJ. Theheart of higher education : a call to renewal / Parker J. Palmer and Arthur Zajonc withMeganScribner;forewordbyMarkNepo. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-470-48790-7(hardback) 1. Education, Higher--Philosophy. 2. Educational change. 3. Educational innovations. I.Zajonc,Arthur.II.Scribner,Megan.III.Title. LB2322.2.P352010 378.01--dc22 2010013825 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica firstedition HBPrinting10987654321 Contents ^ Foreword v MarkNepo Gratitudes xiii TheAuthors xv Introduction 1 1 TowardaPhilosophyofIntegrativeEducation 19 2 WhenPhilosophyIsPutintoPractice 35 3 BeyondtheDividedAcademicLife 53 4 AttendingtoInterconnection,LivingtheLesson 77 5 Experience,Contemplation,andTransformation 101 6 TransformativeConversationsonCampus 125 Afterword 151 AbouttheAppendices:Experiments inIntegrativeEducation 155 iii AppendixA IntheClassroom 157 AppendixB BeyondtheClassroom 175 AppendixC AdministrativeandCampuswide Initiatives 195 Notes 217 Index 229 iv Contents Foreword ^ Theissuesfacingthenextgenerationgloballydemandthat weeducateourstudentsworldwidetousealloftheir resources,notjusttheirmindortheirheart.Thehourislate, theworkishard,andthestakesarehigh,butfewinstitutions arebetterpositionedtotakeupthisworkthanournation’s collegesanduniversities.1 —DianaChapmanWalsh, PresidentEmerita,WellesleyCollege Whatyouhavebeforeyouisathoughtfulandgroundedinvitation toliveintotheheartofhighereducationandtodeepenourunder- standingandpracticeoftransformativelearning.Themagnitudeof theissuesconfrontingtheworldrequireswholepeople withwhole minds and hearts to lead us into tomorrow. And that, in turn, requires us to renew the human purpose and meaning at the heart ofhighereducation. Parker Palmer and Arthur Zajonc have devoted their lives to creating forms of education that serve the human cause. Their book arrives at a critical and creative juncture in the evolution of highereducationintheemergingglobalcommunity.Inparticular, thisbookisanaffirmingresponsetoanunprecedentedinternational highereducationconferenceheldin2007andfundedbytheFetzer Institute. Rather than a compendium of the worthwhile papers, v presentations,anddialoguesofferedattheconference,thisbookisa calltothegrowinginterestandcommitmenttointegrativeeducation thattheconferencesignified. Aftertwoyearsofplanning, theconference,‘‘Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education: Integrative Learning for Compas- sionate Action in an Interconnected World,’’ was held in San Francisco,February22–25,2007.Theconferencedrewoversixhun- drededucators,administrators,studentlifeprofessionals,chaplains, andstudents,representing260institutionsfromNorthAmericaand aroundtheworld—fromSchenectadyHighSchoolinupstateNew YorktotheUniversityofCapeTowninSouthAfrica,andfromthe UniversityofBritishColumbiainCanadatoRichlandCommunity CollegeinDallas,Texas. Partnering organizations who helped convene this unique gathering included the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Associated New American Colleges, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Center for Courage & Renewal, the Contemplative Mind in Society, the Council of Independent Colleges, the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, theNationalAssociationofStudentPersonnelAdministrators,and NaropaUniversity. Our primary partner and host institution for this conference was the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). A special gratitudegoesouttoourwarmcolleaguesatCIIS,tothepresident ofCIIS,JosephSubbiondo,forhisvisionandleadership,andtomy FetzercolleagueDeborahHigginsforherdevotionandexcellence. Without their effort and care, this remarkable conference would neverhavehappened.AnddeepgratitudetoMeganScribner,whose gift as a thinking partner and editor helped knit the compelling questions of the conference and the rich voices of the authors into thebookyouhavebeforeyou. Imustconfessthatstandinginthemidstofsucharemarkable communityofeducatorsforthatoneweekinSanFranciscotriggered an awareness that a healthy conversation is alive and well among educatorsaroundtheworld.Thefundamentalquestionsatthecenter of this growing conversation and at the center of the conference vi Foreword can be offered as: Do current education efforts address the whole humanbeing—mind,heart,andspirit—inwaysthatbestcontribute toourfutureonthisfragileplanet?Whatstepscanwetaketomake ourcollegesanduniversitiesplacesthatawakenthedeepestpotential in students, faculty, and staff? How can integrative learning be effectively woven into the culture, curriculum, and co-curriculum of our colleges and universities? These questions remain active guidepostsforongoingworkinhighereducation. TheFetzerInstitutehashadalong-termcommitmenttoholis- tic education. Over the last fifteen years, the Institute has actively encouraged the development of a vital conversation between edu- cation and spirituality that is prompted by the recognition that education, especially higher education, serves as an incubator of intellectualandprofessionallifethatcannotrightlybeshearedfrom the formation of the whole person and his or her interdependence withthewiderworld.Fetzerhasbothrespondedtoandencouraged theartandpracticeoftransformationaleducationasintegraltothe centralandbestpurposesofhighereducation. Transformational education—understood as educating the whole person by integrating the inner life and the outer life, by actualizing individual and global awakening, and by participating in compassionate communities—has become a quiet but sturdy movement that encourages the recovery and development of the academy as a liberating and capacity-building environment. Much work,however,remainsashighereducationisingreatflux;outcomes aligned with the aspirations of transformative education are by no means clear or guaranteed, thus the need for this book and the threshold it represents for this much-needed conversation to continue. ENTER WITH YOUR OWN GIFT Vocationistheplace wheretheheart’sdeepgladness meetstheworld’sdeephunger. —adaptedfromFrederickBuechner vii Foreword Whatdoesitmeantobalanceeducatingthemindwitheducat- ingtheheart?Intermsofactionintheworld,itsuggeststhatatoolis onlyasgoodasthehandthatguidesit,andtheguidinghandisonly aswiseandcompassionateasthemindandheartthatdirectit.The heart of higher education has something to do with connecting all themeaningfulpartsofbeinghumanandtheincreasinglyimportant challengeofhowwelivetogetherinourtimeonearth. BlairRuble,directoroftheComparativeUrbanStudiesProject attheWoodrowWilsonCenterforInternationalScholars,tellsus: Weliveinaworldthatisdifferentfromthatinhabitedbyour ancestorsinmanyprofoundways.AccordingtotheUnited Nations,theglobalurbanpopulationin2008hasreached 3.3billionpeople,morethanhalfofallhumanslivingonthe planet.Thisrealitystandsincontrastto13percentacentury ago;and3percentacenturybeforethat.2 Implicit in this shift in the human landscape is theincreasing importanceofcompassionandcommunity,asthefuturewilldemand even more skill and grace in the art of living together.And so, the urbanpressofthefutureisonemorereasonthattheheartofhigher educationneedstoliberateindividuals’capacityforcompassionand community and provide them with the skillful means to inhabit thesecapacities. Certainlyeveryonedoesn’thavetheopportunitytoexperience highereducation,butasignificantandgrowingpercentageofyoung peoplearoundtheworldmaketheirwaytocollege:atleasttwenty million annually in the United States, which contributes to the forty million globally each year. This means that higher education isthedevelopmentalhomeforenoughyounglivestofullypopulate the cities of New York, Shanghai, and Los Angeles combined, everyyear. Considerthenthatforeachgenerationthereisadevelopmen- tal window from approximately the ages of eighteen to thirty-five in which these capacities for compassion and community can be viii Foreword

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A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to
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