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Humanities Applied: Expanding Connections


Allen S Goben

Goben is President of Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus. For nearly 30 years, he has been devoted to collaborative leadership and learning excellence as a faculty member, coach, college recruiter, counselor, and administrator. He will be our Thursday evening keynote speaker.

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Sara Klein

Klein is an Art Educator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) 2015 Western Region Museum Art Educator of the Year. She will speak and lead a tour for interested attendees on Friday.

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J. David Hoeveler

Hoveler has been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for 35 years. His work focuses on broad themes of thought and culture. Hoeveler has written six books, which deals with the way ideas become a part of our culture. He will be our Saturday lunch speaker.

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Southwestern Division Conference: Fort Worth, TX

“Humanities Applied: Expanding Connections”
Embassy Suites by Hilton Fort Worth Downtown Sundance Square
November 10-12

Click here for a copy of the 2016 Conference Program (FINAL)

It is time to register for the 2016 CCHA Southwestern Division Conference! The conference will be held in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Fort Worth Downtown Sundance Square on November 10-12. This year’s theme is “Humanities Applied: Expanding Connections.”

Our esteemed speakers this year are Dr. Allen Goben (Thursday evening), President of Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus; Ms. Sara Klein an Art Educator from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Friday); and Dr. J. David Hoeven (Saturday lunch), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

We hope to see you in Fort Worth in November for what will certainly be another wonderful Southwestern Division Conference! Current CCHA members can register by selecting the Register button below.

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Extended Speaker Bios


 

Dr. Allen Goben – Thursday Evening

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In 2014, Dr. Allen Goben became President of Tarrant County College Northeast Campus.  As President of Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois, he doubled the college foundation’s endowment and created Heartland GPS: Guided Path to Success– a framework for improved student planning and success.

In 2009, Dr. Goben was honored as a Distinguished Graduate at The University of Texas at Austin Community College Leadership Program.   In 2011 the American Association of Community Colleges named him to the 21st Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges.  This compliments his participation in AACC’s Voluntary Framework of Accountability Steering Committee.

Dr. Goben served as President of Hazard Community and Technical College (HCTC) in Kentucky where in only three years, his team achieved a 24% improvement in student success.   HCTC was recognized as a one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky and was listed on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For”.

For nearly 30 years, he has been devoted to collaborative leadership and learning excellence as a faculty member, coach, college recruiter, counselor, and administrator.  He has led student services operations as a Counselor for Advanced Technologies, and his classroom teaching experience includes history, geography, social studies, communications, human relations and transformational leadership in community colleges.

A first generation college student who began his post-secondary educational journey at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, Dr. Goben completed a bachelor’s degree in history from Iowa State University, a master’s degree in School Counseling from Drake University, and an EdD in 2003 in Educational Administration from The University of Texas at Austin, Community College Leadership Program.


Sara Klein – Friday

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Sara Klein is an Art Educator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) 2015 Western Region Museum Art Educator of the Year. She will speak and lead a tour on Friday, titled: Observe, Describe, Analyze, Interpret.

This talk and tour will be a private docent tour of Fort Worth’s exquisite museum district! Analyze, describe, evaluate, infer, interpret, and observe? Inquiry-based method or dialogical approach? What does it all mean? Understanding how to talk about art is the first step into incorporating it into your humanities curriculum.  Using artworks from the Amon Carter’s collection, museum educators explain and model all of these visual literacy strategies. Participants have the opportunity to practice using these techniques and collaborate with others to create meaningful classroom connections that encourage dialogue and reflection. http://www.cartermuseum.org/


Dr. J. David Hoeveler – Saturday Lunch

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As an undergraduate student drawn to history and philosophy, J. David Hoeveler found the perfect area of research in graduate school: the history of ideas.

“I leaned toward a merger of the two,” says the widely recognized scholar of American intellectual history. “History was a way of dealing with ideas in a very tangible, social, institutional context.”

Since the late 1970s, Hoeveler has produced a significant monographic study in American intellectual history roughly every five years. His research speaks to several broad themes of thought and culture and is recognized by scholars in American intellectual history, as well as those in the history of religion, education and political ideology.

Many people, Hoeveler says, view ideas as products of the social, economic or, material conditions of their time. “It’s actually much more of a live exchange between an individual and his/her environment,” he argues. “A struggle, often, in institutions is which world view-or which view of any particular issue-is going to prevail.”

From his work, one learns about the wellsprings of American conservatism over four centuries; about the religious, institutional, and political origins and structure of American higher education; and about how public intellectuals draw from past thought and shape contemporary political discourse.

Reviewers of his monographs are impressed by his capacity to open up larger worlds than seemed apparent at first glance, and praise him for his civil and respectful approach to the topics.

Attempting a summary of the six books he has published, Hoeveler says, “They really ask questions about how certain ideas get placed in institutions and what consequences come from it.”

Moreover, his current work on the history of science, evolution and intelligent design, and the origins of the Wisconsin Idea, promise more insight into the relationship between intellectual thought and public policy.

Hoeveler has enjoyed his academic freedom at UWM during 35 years as a professor. “It’s a place where you can define yourself as a scholar,” he says. “Within the departments, we teach the subjects we want to teach. They’re not programmed for us.

“There’s a tradition in Wisconsin of academic freedom, open inquiry. For a professor here, to define yourself as a scholar, they are behind you. There are very few impediments to going about it the way you feel best.”

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