Recommended by the Distinguished Scholar Committee, Lipman will use the cash award, made available through the MSU Foundation, for research related to his project, The Concept of Higher-Order Thinking. My project, which deals with higher-order thinking skills, will be part literary because fiction is easier to understand than academic text.
Children have to learn to go beyond understanding.
They must analyze, synthesize and evaluate, and learn to think imaginatively and caringly. Lipman also has been nominated by the American Philosophical Association to receive the 1995 Charles Frankel Prize, awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the public s understanding of the humanities. He also was nominated for the prize four years ago by the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities. Initiatives being made to improve safety Enhanced lighting, foot patrol and emergency call boxes are just a few of the efforts being made this year to improve safety on campus. Philip Calitre, director of Campus Safety and Security, discussed these and other improvements at Thursday s Board of Trustees meeting.