News Archive
The Humanities Need to Do More to Reach Non-Majors," September 25, 2026
St. John’s College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It," May 20, 2026
Ep. 194: In Defense of a Core Education With Andrew Delbanco," April 15, 2026
Palantir And Purdue Confront Rising Anxiety Over The Value Of College," November 21 2025
Talking life, philosophy, and basketball with Trey Kaufman-Renn and Professor Jan Cover," March 13, 2025
Mitch Daniels School of Business: Troy Seagraves, "Understanding Capitalism through Brass Birmingham," January 24, 2025
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Scott Carlson and Ned Laff, "The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts," January 21, 2025
Purdue wants STEM students in Indy to build skills through liberal arts," December 16, 2024
Jack Miller Center: An Interview with Melinda Zook, October 2024
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Ian Wilhelm, "Where the Humanities are Thriving," October 2, 2024
Star City News: Emily Slater, "A 'Cornerstone' and 'Hidden Gem': Purdue Liberal Arts Integration receives national recognition," September 24, 2024
Journal of International Political Theory: Molly Scudder, "The Art of Listening in the Age of AI'" September 23, 2024
ACTA: The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, ACTA Designates Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program as a Hidden Gem for its Robust Liberal Arts Curriculum, September 18, 2024
Times Higher Education: Melinda Zook, "AI or Not, Students must Still Learn to Think for Themselves", June 13, 2024
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 Undergraduate 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