Periclean 荣誉论坛
2023 Academic Festival Program
的 Periclean 荣誉论坛 is an academic program that offers a supportive intellectual community for highly motivated Skidmore students. Academic excellence, leadership, and citizenship are the core values of the “forum,” which, as the name suggests, organizes and promotes the common goals and interests of the entire academic community. 的 荣誉论坛 offers rigorous courses and extracurricular events to its members and the larger Skidmore community. 的 荣誉论坛 regularly hosts field trips, campus dialogues, and lectures to foster the life of the mind and build a community of like-minded scholars and leaders. In their first or second years, students who have maintained semester and cumulative GPAs of 3.5 or higher are invited to apply for membership to the 荣誉论坛. Once selected, members are required to take 荣誉论坛 courses, maintain exemplary academic and social integrity, participate in 荣誉论坛 extracurricular events, carry out a Student-Led Honors Project, and complete a senior capstone project. In return, they gain access to 荣誉论坛 housing, a student lounge, and pre-enrollment in unique course offerings, and graduate with Periclean 荣誉论坛 distinction.
Does Liberal Education Have a Future?
An Evening with Robert P. George and Cornel West
On March 23, 2021 Robert P. George and Cornel West, two leading public intellectuals and accomplished teacher-scholars discussed the future of liberal education in America with 火博体育大学 President Marc C. Conner and Associate Professor 兴泰勒. George and West have strikingly different philosophical and political commitments, yet their public witness as dialogic partners and friends provides a model for inquiry in our hyperpartisan and increasingly illiberal age.
This event was part of the Periclean 荣誉论坛’s ongoing Policy Debate series which brings distinguished thinkers, writers and practitioners to Skidmore’s campus to debate and discuss a philosophical, political or ethical topic of great public concern.