Exhausting. Illuminating. Filled with grace. This is how students at Notre Dame framed their college experience. And how could they not, with provocative professors like Dr. Kathy Cummings and Dr. Sam Newlands?
This engrossing conversation hinges on Notre Dame’s creed to be a means for good. Dr. Cummings shares her philosophy on history: who gets remembered, and why … as well as who gets left out. She focuses on making the people who history made invisible, visible. If you hope your children will go further than media soundbites, learn to read deeply, and come to appreciate complexity, Dr. Cummings is your professor.
Kelly chats further with Dr. Newlands, a philosopher who studies hope, optimism, and transformative experiences. His favorite students? Second semester marketing majors fulfilling a philosophy requirement. Dr. Newlands’ gift is to get these students into deep, meaningful conversations.
