{"id":6894,"date":"2013-11-20T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2013-11-20T07:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:45:40","slug":"dean-phillips-to-speak-at-lynchburg-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/11\/20\/dean-phillips-to-speak-at-lynchburg-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Phillips to speak at Lynchburg College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dean of the College Gary Phillips<\/strong> will speak tonight <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/11\/Gary-Phillips.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6895\" title=\"Gary Phillips\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/11\/Gary-Phillips-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/Gary-Phillips-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/Gary-Phillips.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynchburg.edu\/content\/problems-confronting-higher-ed#.Uoysqhgo4kI\">Lynchburg College<\/a>, his own undergrad alma mater.\u00a0 He will discuss problems confronting higher education today, the historical record of the liberal arts in dealing with changing social challenges, and the research done by the Wabash College Center for Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Phillips is a 1971 graduate of Lynchburg College (BA, Magna Cum Laude in religion, philosophy, and English), Vanderbilt Divinity School (MDiv, Magna Cum Laude in Biblical Studies), and Vanderbilt University (PhD with Highest Distinction in New Testament studies and linguistics). He has studied at the Sorbonne and Coll\u00e9ge de France, Paris. Phillips has taught at Holy Cross College and the University of the South (Sewanee). Before becoming dean of Wabash College, he served in a number of key administrative roles: grants officer, director of Special Studies, director of First Year Program, and Religion Department chair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lynchburg College.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean of the College Gary Phillips will speak tonight at Lynchburg College, his own undergrad alma mater.\u00a0 He will discuss problems confronting higher education today, the historical record of the liberal arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}