The application for the Fall 2023 Lincoln Scholars program is now open! Interested students can apply through the Future Eagle portal. Students can also apply for the Examined Life cohort in the University College. The application is due May 12th at noon.
Lincoln Scholars (Certificate in Political Thought) is a 15-credit certificate program for 1st and 2nd year students who want to explore the great questions of moral and political life in a context of intellectual and political diversity. Key points of the program include: small seminar classes on foundational texts; an intellectually and politically diverse set of readings, students, and faculty; and an intellectual community of students and scholars outside of the classroom.
The Annual Lincoln Scholar Lecture 2022
Zena Hitz, a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis, and author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, delivered the annual Lincoln Scholars lecture for 2022.
Many students come to college ambitious to be successful in politics and anxious about getting internships and jobs. But is that good for us as learners and as human beings? Is it good for society? Dr. Hitz argued that treating education as a purely instrumental value does violence to the activty of learning and encourages us to commodify each other. Only by opening ourselves up to the pleasures of the intellectual life for its own sake, she argues, can we foster a rich inner life for ourselves and learn to treat our fellow human beings with justice and dignity.
Lincoln Scholars Program: Challenging Books, Authentic Conve
Learn more about Lincoln Scholars from program director Thomas Merrill in this video.
Director
Learn more about Thomas Merrill, Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Associate Director of the Political Theory Institute at American University.
Learn More
Program Coordinator
Sunyata Courie, Program Coordinator for the Lincoln Scholars program.
