Cornerstone In the News
- Learning Well: Kara Miller, "Looking for Meaning in College? Try Discussing a Great Book", February 27, 2024
- Best Colleges: Bennett Leckrone, "Purdue's Daniels School is Shaping the Future of Business Education. Here's How.", February 7, 2024
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Melinda Zook, "Gen Z is Ready to Talk. Are Professors Ready to Listen?," September 18, 2023
- The Wall Street Journal: Andrew Delbanco, "Great Books Can Heal Our Divided Campuses," June 9, 2023
- Town and Country: Nicole LaPorte, "Da Vinci was a Double Major," May 2023
- Inside Higher Ed: "Shakespeare, Still Our Contemporary," May 12, 2023
- The Point Magazine: "A Renaissance from Below," April 10, 2023
- Inside Higher Ed: "Gen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible Future," April 2, 2023
- A Student's Search for Meaning: Melinda Zook, "Bringing Meaning to the Lives of Students," March 16, 2023
- Amanpour and Co.: Andrew Delbanco, “Are the Humanities in Crisis?” March 8, 2023
- Poets and Quants for Undergrads: 2023’s Undergraduate Business Schools To Watch, March 7, 2023
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Teaching in the Age of Militant Apathy, February 15, 2023
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: AI and the Future of Undegraduate Writing, December 13, 2022
- Purdue University News: Purdue’s Cornerstone program highlighted in ‘Blueprint for Undergraduate Education’ by the Boyer 2030 Commission, October 19, 2022
- The Chronicle of Higher Education:Excellence in Undergraduate Education Must Include Equity, Says Influential Group, October 19, 2022
- Inside Higher Ed: Innovating at Scale, August 18, 2022
- Purdue University News:“Bringing Texts Alive: Melinda Zook interview,” April 20, 2022
- UB: University Bussiness: Oh, the humanities: Can these colleges help save tradition in higher education?, March 4, 2022
- Troy Today: Purdue president says relevancy of the ‘sheepskin’ must be proven for colleges to stay viable in today’s market, March 2, 2022
- C-SPAN PodCasts: Ep. 40 Roosevelt Montás, "Rescuing Socrates," December 14, 2021
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why the Core Matters for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, November 16, 2021
- Indianapolis Bussiness Journal (IBJ): Nate Feltman: Defend free speech on college campuses, October 29, 2021
- Inside Higher Ed: Reviving the Humanities Through General Education, October 18, 2021
- New American Universities and Colleges (NACU): Ep. 2. Why Liberal Arts Matter for STEM Majors -Melinda Zook, history professor and director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts at Purdue University, Sept. 20, 2021
- The Point Magazine: What Should Students Learn?, July 30, 2021
- THiNK Magazine: “Timeless Wisdom” Seminar shows Cornerstone students how Frederick Douglass’ thoughts on inequity are as relevant as ever in 21st century America, Feb. 2021
- Inside Higher Ed: When Polling Fails, Read a Book, December 9, 2020
- The Wall Street Journal: Foundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great Books, December 18, 2020
- Dirty History Podcast: "...but you're also a human," On Transformative Texts and the Liberal Arts; Director Melinda Zook discusses the Cornerstone program and the value of a Liberal Arts education, Episode 54, Nov. 2020
- HUMANITIES: “Humanities for Everyone: a Plan,” Andy Delbanco interviewed by Jon Peede about the NEH Cornerstone Initiative, Fall 2020, Vol. 41, No. 4
- Inside INdiana Business: Purdue program provides national model for liberal arts; Lori Sparger, the College’s COO and CIO, explains what liberal arts education means for potential employers, Oct. 19, 2020
- Full Steam Ahead Podcast: Episode 73: Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program, Oct. 9, 2020
- Inside Higher Ed: Colleges Must Revive General Education, Sept. 30, 2020
- Purdue University News: Purdue program provides nationwide model for liberal arts in higher ed, Sept. 23, 2020
- Inside Philanthropy: Grants Aim to “Reinvigorate the Humanities” by Connecting Them to Career Goals, Sept. 23, 2020
- National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH and Teagle Foundation Partner on $7 Million Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, Sept. 23, 2020
- The Teagle Foundation: The Teagle Foundation Partners with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sept. 23, 2020
- Butler Center for Leadership Excellence and ADVANCE Working Paper Series: Stranded on Calypso’s Island: Cornerstone, COVID, and power of transformative texts, Sept. 2020
- THiNK Magazine: Students share their quarantine stories in Cornerstone contest, Fall 2020
- Inside Higher Ed: The General Education Curriculum We Need, June 23, 2020
- The New York Times: The End of College as We Knew It?, June 4, 2020
- Dimensions of Discovery: Cornerstone Program brings Humanities Curriculum to STEM Majors, Winter 2020
- FW Business Weekly: President Mitch Daniels pens open letter to 'People of Purdue', June 8, 2020
- Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning: Giant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at Purdue Dec. 3, 2019
- The Chronicle of Higher Education:A Modern Great Books Solution, Nov. 10, 2019
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Can You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again, Nov. 4, 2019
- LinkedIn: Big Brother Comes to Purdue, Sept. 25, 2019
- Inside Higher Ed: The Future of Gen Ed, April 18, 2019
- THiNK Magazine:Why do you love liberal arts?, Spring 2019
- Inside Higher Ed: By Any Other Name , Jan. 25, 2019
- LinkedIn: Frankenstein Comes to Purdue, Sept. 27, 2018
- Inside Higher Ed:The Power of Academic Friendship, Sept. 26, 2018
- The Washington Post: Liberal arts shouldn’t be an afterthought at large research universities, Sept. 21, 2018
- LinkedIn: Transforming lives: The Liberal Arts and the college student, July 16, 2018
- LinkedIn: Why Purdue engineers read The Iliad, June 25, 2018
- Purdue Alumnus: A STEM Shift- Purdue Alumnus, Spring 2018
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Several Colleges Already Teach the ‘Big Questions of Life
- THiNK Magazine: Reimagining Undergraduate Education, Fall 2017
- Purdue Exponent: Liberal Arts looks to build STEM majors' communication skills, June 22, 2017