KCPV’s Patt Morrison asks: Who Needs College?
Patt Morrison of KCPV 90.3, Southern California Public Radio, debates with Dr. Richard Veddar and listeners whether or not attending college is always the best option prior to entering the workforce.
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Rescheduled: Live Podcast 04/23/09: John Hilston – The Banking Crisis!
Dr. John Hilston will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 3PM Mountain.
John Hilston earned a B.S. in Industrial Management from Grove City (PA) College (1996). At Grove City, he studied under G. Dirk Mateer and Walter E. Williams. After graduating from Grove City, John worked as a Project Engineer, Real Estate Tax Specialist, and Insurance Statistical Analyst. In 1998 he earned an M.A. in Economics from Cleveland State University (1998) and is completing the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.
Mr. Hilston taught at six different Cleveland/Akron, OH, colleges for two years and for three years he taught Economics at Seminole Community College in Sanford, FL. He is presently teaching Economics and Business courses for Colorado Technical University an Internet-based institution located in Colorado Springs, CO. His academic interests include public choice theory and political economy.
In his spare time, Mr. Hilston serves as a Seminole County (FL) Republican Executive Committeeman.
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Live Podcast 04/09/09: Dr. Arthur Pontynen – History of Art
Dr. Art Pontynen will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 3PM Mountain.
Although Arthur Pontynen was trained as a specialist in East Asian art and culture, the focus of his academic research research and teaching centers on a cosmopolitan but now commonly neglected choice. We can either seek a violent aestheticism in our lives, or we can seek truth, goodness, and beauty. In the face of a dominant yet failed Modernist-Postmodernist ideology today so common in the academy, Dr. Pontynen advocates development of the critical language by which we can pursue the truth.
conflict between relativism and the pursuit of truth is developed in Dr. Pontynen’s “For the Love of Beauty: Art, History,” and the “Moral Foundations of Aesthetic Judgment” (Transaction Publishers, 2006).
Dr. Pontynen research first focused on how a Modernist-Postmodernist view of Asian cultures destroys the truth claims of those cultures. His research then led to a study of how that view also undermines the Classical-Judaeo-Christian foundations of Western culture. The conclusion is that the Modernist-Postmodernist tradition is deeply subversive of the very existence of culture itself–with terrible consequences.
By advocating the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty he offers a view of fine art and culture that not only affirms the foundations of the traditional West, it affirms also that such a pursuit is a cosmopolitan solution to the failure of what is now a worldwide cultural malaise.
Dr. Pontynen holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Iowa and has taught at the University of Iowa, Lewis and Clark College, and Stephen F. Austin University. He is former Chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, and has been awarded Smithsonian, Heritage Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. His numerous publications and reviews are found in a wide variety of venues including the “Art Bulletin,” “Oriental Art,” “Bulletin of the Field Museum,” “ACE: Art and Christian Enquiry,” and “American Outlook Magazine.”
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Live Podcast: 04/01/09 – Dr. Thomas Payne – Constitutional Law
Dr. Thomas Payne will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 3PM Mountain.
Thomas Payne majored in History at the University of Notre Dame where he was inspired by the classes of Professor Gerhart Niemeyer to become a political theorist. Dr. Payne holds both a Ph.D in Government from Claremont Graduate School and a J.D. from the Vanderbilt University School of Law.
From 1983 to 1987, he was an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College, where he helped build and expand the small department of history and political science into one recognized nationally for academic excellence.
In 1988, Dr. Payne served as a clerk in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio and in 1990 became a clerk for the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He joined the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1991 as a Litigation Associate. Cravath is one of the nation’s premier business firms, with IBM, CBS, and New York’s Chemical Bank as clients. In his role as associate, Dr. Payne participated in cases involving securities regulation, first amendment law, patent infringement, and corporate governance. Later, with the Philadelphia firm of Felheimer, Eichen & Braverman, he worked on antitrust, lender-liability, and bankruptcy cases.
Since 1995, he has been a sole practitioner of the law, handling a wide range of cases: commercial leases, corporate governance, probate litigation, and post-decree divorce matters. Several of his cases have been reported in legal publications. One of the most important is Ouellette v. The Christ Hospital (S.D. Ohio), which establishes that a claim is not preempted by the ERISA Law where the plaintiff alleges that the negligence of an HMO in establishing financial incentives for cost-containment caused malpractice by a physician.
Dr. Payne’s interest in government and politics is more than academic. He has been a campaign worker for city council and congressional candidates, a precinct worker for Ronald Reagan’s gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, a regional political director for the Reagan-Bush Committee, and, as a member of the Reagan Transition Team, he helped prepare the final report on multilateral development banking. Dr. Payne was retained as a consultant to the Office of Cultural and Education Affairs at the United States International Communication Agency (USICA) to research and write a history of cultural diplomacy of the United States.
He has been admitted to practice as a member of the Bar in Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania and is a member of both the Philadelphia Society and the Federalist Society. He has published articles in political philosophy, arms control theory, and American politics and has been honored with the American Jurisprudence Book Award in Criminal Law and Professional Responsibility.
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(Rescheduled) Live Podcast: 03/26/09 – Dr. Charles Miller, The American Frontier
Dr. Charles Miller will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 3PM Mountain.
Charles Miller, a resident of Tucson, Arizona, is a student of the Western frontier. He earned a BA (1969) from University of Maryland, College Park, an MA (1970) from the University of Texas, Austin and a Ph.D (1990) from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. Miller is the author of two books, “Stake Your Claim! The Tale of America’s Enduring Mining Law” (Tucson: Westernlore Press, 1991) and “The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining” (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1998). Other publications by Dr. Miller include “The Spirit of the Pioneers Still Rules; the Automobile Gold Rush in 1930s Arizona,” Winter 1997, Journal of Arizona History and “Arizona’s Automobile Gold Rush,” in History of Mining in Arizona, vol. III, (Tucson: 1999). The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals relied heavily on Dr. Miller’s “Stake Your Claim!,” in its decision of the case of US v. Shumway (199 F. 3d 1093.) Dr. Miller has been a high school teacher in San Antonio, Texas; an instructor in United States history at San Antonio College; an instructor of geology and environmental science at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, and, since 1998, he has been an instructor of history at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona, teaching two courses per term on such subjects as the history of American Indians, the history of Colonial Latin America, and the history of Modern Latin America.
From 1990 to 1994, Dr. Miller was official historian for the US Bureau of Reclamation, in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he studied historic issues and sites associated with that agency. At the Bureau of Reclamation he was responsible for a report on the infamous internment of Navajos on the Pecos River in New Mexico (1864) as well as studies of local issues in Colorado.
When Dr. Miller isn’t pursuing his professional interests he is an avid photographer, SCUBA diver, and an adult leader in various youth organizations. His backpacking experience includes “rim to rim” across the Grand Canyon (4 days), climbs of Mt. Whitney (tallest in the United States outside Alaska at 14,496 ft.), as well as Long’s Peak, Blanca Peak, and several others over 14,000 ft. in Colorado. Many of Dr. Miller’s mountain climbs required three day’s effort.
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Live Podcast 03/25/09: Dr. David Mulroy – Ancient Myths of Greece and Rome
Dr. David Mulroy will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 3PM Mountain.
David Dunn Mulroy earned his Ph.D. in Classics at Stanford University. After graduating, he taught at Princeton University and, since 1973, at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Mulroy is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars and Vice-President of the Wisconsin Association of Scholars. In 1996, he received the Barry M. Gross Memorial Award from the National Association of Scholars for “distinguished service to the cause of academic reform” as founder and Director of the Certificate Program in the Study of Liberal Arts through Great Books at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Dr. Mulroy is the translator of Early Greek Lyric Poetry, Horace’s Odes and Epodes, and Catullus’ Poems. His essays include “Politics and Great Books,” “The War Against Grammar,” and “Alphabetic Literacy ands the Revitalization of the Liberal Arts.”
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Live Podcast 03/18/09: Edward Levinson – Western Architecture
Dr. Edward Levinson will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 3PM Mountain.
Master of Architecture in Civic Design, (University of Pennsylvania, 1958), Dr. Edward Levinson taught at Temple University, Florida International University, and was Professor of Architecture at Miami-Dade College, where he taught courses in Architectural Design, History, Theory, Communications, Ecology, and Man and Environment. He has served his community with work on the White House Conference on Domestic Affairs, the State of Florida Historic Preservation, the American Association for State and Local History, and is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He was the recipient of grants from the Florida Citizens Committee for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has served in an elected capacity as Councilman in Miami-Dade County, and is President of ADA Research and Compliance Analysts. He has appeared as an Architectural expert on local as well as national television, and is about to embark on his 24th architectural tour of the European continent.
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Live Podcast – 02/19/09 – A Discussion about the History of American Entrepreneurship
UPDATE: This podcast has been rescheduled from earlier in the month for this Thursday, 02/29/09, at 3PM Mountain
Dr. Gerald Gunderson of Yorktown University will be discussing with Dr. Bishirjian the History of American Entrepreneurship.
Gerald Gunderson, is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, positions he assumed in 1982. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Washington, 1967, with a thesis in economic history supervised by Douglas North, Nobel Laureate. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and North Carolina State University.
Professor Gunderson has published numerous academic papers, including studies of the cause of the American Civil War. the demise of the Roman Empire, and models of entrepreneurship. He has authored columns in more than 20 newspapers in the United States, including the Wall Street Journal, and he has worked with national professional associations concerning entrepreneurship, economic and business history, private enterprise systems, economic education, and public policies. He served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, and is now Editor of The Journal of Private Enterprise.
Dr. Gunderson was a founding member and is a member of the Executive Board as well as the Director of the Academic Advisory Board for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies. In 1980 he received the Freedom Foundation’s award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. He was appointed by the Governor to the Educational Improvement Panel in Connecticut to develop solutions to poor public schooling.
Dr. Gunderson is the author of The New Economic History of America and The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States, which Peter Druker, the mentor of modern management, described as “brilliant.” Currently, he is completing a book analyzing the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy, Entrepreneurship for Smarties: How the World is Changed.
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Live Podcast: The Quest for Truth, an Introduction to Philosophy
Join us for our next Live Podcast will be February 11, 2009 at a special time – 3PM Mountain – as Dr. James Gustafson discusses with Dr. Bishirjian The Quest for Truth, an Introduction to Philosophy
Dr. James Gustafson has taught philosophy for more than 30 years, including positions with the Romania Bible Institute & Seminary, the Romania Baptist Seminary, and the University of Oradea. He is an adjunct professor at Scott Theological College in Machakos, Kenya and New Theological College, Dehradun, India. He is an ordained Congregational minister, serving the West Congregational Church of Haverhill, Massachusetts since 1959, where he has also served as parish organist. Dr. Gustafson is the author of the textbook “The Quest for Truth, an Introduction to Philosophy,” now in its 6th edition.
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Live Podcast: Dr. Christian Kopff – Intro to the Bible
Please join us at our new time – 5PM Mountain – this Wednesday on Blog Talk Radio, when Dr. Christian Kopff will talk with Dr. Bishirjian about his Yorktown University course, Intro to the Bible.
E. Christian Kopff, Ph.D was educated at St. Paul’s School (Garden City, NY), Haverford College (B.A., summa cum laude) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD, Classics). He teaches Introduction to the Bible at Yorktown University. That course is one of ten Core courses in a required curriculum that every baccalaureate degree candidate at Yorktown University must complete.
Dr. Kopff is editor of a critical edition of the Greek text of Euripides’ Bacchae (Teubner, 1982) and author of over 100 articles and reviews on scholarly, pedagogical and popular topics. He currently works with the Classics Department of the University of Urbino, Italy on ancient Greek lyric poetry.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Introduction to the Bible approaches a reading of the Bible in the context of companion civilizations of the ancient Near East and looks at its subject with five goals in mind:
- The Bible as historical growth and divine revelation
- The role of covenant and Kingdom in Biblical history
- Prophecy as movement and literary genre
- The genres of the Bible: folk tale, history, poetry, prophecy, gospel apocalyptic
- The relationship of the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament
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