I'm concerned that if the division does not define itself, others will define us. So, someone says something like "Majoring in English will help students get jobs. You have good communication skills, don't you?" I find that kind of statement horribly depressing, so we really do need to say something about ourselves to other divisions, to parents, to students, to review committees, to those looking at the general education program. When people look at the college's web site, they'll see a lot about work and sustainability, which is good, but we're pretty much invisible. Are we different from other small college fine arts and humanities programs? Are there ways to talk about the relationship between the liberal arts/fine arts and job-getting, which parents are worried about? Enough for now. It's late. I'm going back to Alexandra Fuller's memoir of childhood in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

Carol