The seminar is a requirement for all new faculty, as an integrated effort to introduce all of us to this wonderful and weird thing known as Wheaton College, in particular its history and quirks in the realms of academics, governance, and spiritual life. A major theme of the seminar is conscious thinking about how we as faculty can go about intelligently integrating our lives of faith and our lives as teachers and academics. It's pretty great to sit a room surrounded by other interesting faculty members and share ideas and just in general get to know each other while discussing things that actually matter.
By the way, Newman's The Idea of the University is pretty good reading. That man knew his Classics, yessiree. (for example, see this chapter)
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