March 2–9, 2020 - Perry L. Glanzer
Identity Wars: Battling for Our Humanity in American Higher Education
We are very pleased to announce our Scholar-in-Residence for 2020 will be Perry L. Glanzer.
Who am I? How do I become excellent in my identities? How do I fit all these identities and the pursuit of excellence together in one life? These basic and vitally important questions are often relegated to the company of peers and mentors, outside the scope of college classes and professor relationships. Even as higher education pays more attention to identity, it does so in a way that reduces our humanity. How can we find ourselves again?
Scheduled Lectures
The following lectures will take place in Hartley Recital Hall in Jennings Hall:
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March 2, 2020, 7 p.m.
General Education Surrenders: How We Lost Ourselves -
March 3, 2020, 7 p.m.
Who Are You? Rediscovering Your Essential Identities and Their Excellence -
March 5, 2020, 7 p.m.
Rethinking the Key Collegiate Identities: Neighbor, Friend, and Lover (and yes Student) -
March 9, 2020, 7 p.m.
Stewardship Unleashed: Money, Sex, Nature and Race
Lectures are free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Honors Community of Union University.
About Perry L. Glanzer
Perry L. Glanzer, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Foundations and a Resident Scholar with Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, M.A. from Baylor University and B.A. from Rice University.
He is the co-author, most recently, of The Quest for Purpose: The Collegiate Search for a Meaningful Life (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2017) and Restoring the Soul of the University: Unifying Christian Higher Education in a Fragmented Age (Intervarsity, 2017). Some of his other past books, all co-authored with Todd C. Ream, include: The Idea of a Christian College: A Reexamination for Today's University (Cascade, 2013), Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009), and Christianity and Scholarship in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2007). His first solo-authored work was The Quest for Russia's Soul (Baylor University Press, 2002). He also co-edited Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance (Eerdmans, 2014) and Taking Captive Every Thought: Forty Years of Christian Scholar's Review (Abilene Christian University Press, 2011).
In addition, Dr. Glanzer has authored or co-authored over 75 journal articles and book chapters on topics related to moral education, faith-based higher education, and the relationship between religion and education.