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[email protected]. LaWRENCE TODAY FALL 2012 www.lawrence.edu “ IS A LAWRENCE EDUCATION STILL WORTH IT?” LAWRENCE: THE COLLEGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY President’s 2011–12 ANNUAL REPORT TO ALUMNI AND DONORS L U APPLETON, WISCONSIN L U APPLETON, WISCONSIN Lawrence Today CONTENTS From the PRESIDENT Fall 2012 Vol. 93, Number 1 1 From the President 2 The College of the 21st Century 3 Liberal Education in the 21st Century 6 The Only Life: Liberal Arts and the Life of the Mind at Lawrence Art DIREctor Liz Boutelle 8 Education in Tins ATSSOCIA E VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNicatioNS 10 Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lawrence Craig Gagnon ’76 12 A VORPed View of Liberal Education Editor 14 Embracing the Residential College Marti Gillespie Dear Lawrentians, 16 Darn that Al Gore and his Infernal Interwebs GRAPHIC DESIGNER Tammy Wagner 18 Student-Athletes of the 21st Century For more than two thousand years, service partnerships that ask students to think like strategic leaders the liberal arts—literally, the studies rather than short-term volunteers, to new modes of experiential 20 The 21st Century Conservatory VICE PRESIDENT FOR ALUMNI, DEVELOPMENT of free people—have been the gold learning that turn alumni into guest teachers and turn class projects and COMMUNicatioNS 22 Working Toward Wellness standard for developing active, into internships or entrepreneurial ventures—Lawrence is bringing Cal Husmann engaged and informed citizens.