Professor Tofias posted information about this essay competition a couple weeks back. I wrote an essay for this competition at UWGB in the Spring of 2008 and it was one of three selected to compete statewide. Regardless whether your essay is selected and regardless whether you win any money, you should all write an essay expressing your viewpoints on a liberal arts education and submit it. A diversity of points of view is the foundation for the liberal arts. If we all had the same perspectives and beliefs, then education would be pretty simple.
Those of you deciding to write an essay should read some of the previous winners' essays for guidance. I'm also available for assistance. My commencement speech had a lot of material on the liberal arts (some from my essay) and was actually published here: http://liberaleducation.uwsa.edu/pdf/Schmidt-Ben_CommencementSpeech20090516.pdf by the same group organizing this essay competition.
Good luck!
This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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