{"id":1501,"date":"2019-04-12T22:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=1501"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:00:09","slug":"the-case-for-liberal-arts-education-in-the-community-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/the-case-for-liberal-arts-education-in-the-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Liberal Arts Education in the Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1535 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/52341842_2352071571714305_4918835983216017408_n.jpg\" alt=\"Information about the event with a word cloud about the liberal arts\" width=\"960\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/52341842_2352071571714305_4918835983216017408_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/52341842_2352071571714305_4918835983216017408_n.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/52341842_2352071571714305_4918835983216017408_n.jpg?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","column_2":"<h2><strong>Ted Hadzi-Antich, &#8220;The Case for Liberal Education in Community College&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>February 27, 2019<br \/>\n7:00-9:00 p.m.<br \/>\nEastview Campus 8500<\/p>\n<p>Presenter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ted Hadzi-Antich, Department Chair of Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant Potts, Department Chair of Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The goal of liberal education is liberation-liberation from prejudice, unexamined opinion, and apathy. Given that over half of American undergraduates are enrolled at a community college it is essential that liberal education be a core component of the community college curriculum. The future of our nation may depend upon it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to the main page for <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/\">past events<\/a>\u00a0from the Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false,"sidekick":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1501\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}