In The News: Gen Z Is Ready to Talk. Are Professors Ready to Listen?
One day last spring, I took my students to the Wabash River, in Lafayette, Ind., where we took turns reading aloud the last chapter of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, in which the river tells Siddhartha its secrets. As we read, we, too, listened to the river as it “still resounded, sorrowful, seeking.” It was a powerful and unusual experience — both for me, as a professor of history teaching core literary texts to first-year STEM majors, and for the students in their first seminar-like course.
Read the full story from Melinda S. Zook, Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History and Director of Cornerstone, at The Chronicle of Higher Education.