In Defense of an Undergraduate Education
Bill Bonner’s diatribe against undergraduate education at UVA in the name of Thomas Jefferson and Rabbi HIllel demonstrates the same lazy habits of thinking and writing that I try to drill out of my first year undergraduates. Here’s what he could learn from reading R. Hillel more closely.
Contributing Scholars
Rose AslanRose Aslan is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Religious Studies, where she specializes in Islamic Studies. She received her MA in Arab and Islamic Civilizations from the American University in Cairo and her BA in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia.
Brad BannonBrad Bannon holds degrees in Music (BA’97), Finance (BA’97), Divinity (MDiv’06), and Philosophy (LPh’08) from Furman University, Drew Theological, and Dharmaram Vidya Ksetram (Bangalore). He is currently in his third year at Harvard Divinity School pursuing a doctorate in Comparative Theology under the direction of Frank Clooney. His research involves Sankara and Nicholas of Cusa and examines apophatic theology from the perspective of fundamental epistemology. He, his wife, Elizabeth, and their daughter, Leela, anxiously await the newest addition to their family, due in March, currently known as “Cashew.”
Wilfredo Amr RuizAttorney Wilfredo Amr Ruiz is also a Muslim Chaplain and Political Analyst on the Middle East and Muslim World. He is a regular columnist at various newspaper and electronic media outlets in New York, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Ruiz is regularly interviewed and consulted at national and international media outlets on diverse issues on politics of the Middle East and the Muslim World, Islam and Christian-Muslim relations.