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Lee Trepanier

Lee Trepanier is Dean of D’Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Assumption University in Massachusetts. He is also author and editor of several books and editor of Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film.

Articles by Lee Trepanier

Local Stories, National Character

We always have been an unruly people, from the very beginning. It is a fact that gives us hope that our current disagreements and fights are not signs of our…

The Absurdity of Teaching

As we approach the new academic year, we, like Sisyphus, are condemned to roll the rock up the hill only for it to roll back down. However, this does not…
August 22, 2022

From The Multiversity Cave: Conclusion

Saginaw, MI This is the final post of a series that explored what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
July 25, 2016

From the Multiversity Cave: Students and the State

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
April 27, 2016

From The Multiversity Cave: General Education

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
December 8, 2015

From the Multiversity Cave: The Universal Sciences

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
August 24, 2015

From the Multiversity: Three Reformations

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
August 10, 2015

From The Multiversity: The New Paradigm

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
July 31, 2015

From the Multiversity Cave: Aquinas and Synthesis

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
April 7, 2015

From the Multiversity Cave: Augustine and Amare

This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments, and other…
March 16, 2015

From the Multiversity Cave: Aristotle and Phronesis

Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
February 16, 2015

From The Multiversity: Plato

What can Plato teach us about and in the modern multiversity?
January 12, 2015