Does Higher Education Need a New Theory of Change?
 http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Improve-Learning-OK/130179/


We Must Call the Classics before a Court of Shipwrecked Men
Classical World 104 2011

Do Majors Matter?
Inside Higher ED, June 2011

Navigating a Perfect Storm
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, June 2011

The Pygmies in the Cage: The Function of the Sublime in Longinus
in D. Heiland and L. Rosenthal  Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment, The Teagle Foundation 2011 http://www.teaglefoundation.org/disciplinaryassessment/chapters/connor.pdf

Perfect Storm: How an Imminent Crisis in Higher Education Can Strengthen Liberal Education
2011
Mycalessus: Narrative Compression and Emotional Power in Thucydidies (Draft)
2010

Great Expectations: The Expected and the Unexpected in Thucydides and in Liberal Education (Draft)
Arthur and Mary Platsis Symposium, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 7, 2010

Liberal Arts I: They Keep Chugging Along (with Cheryl Ching)
Inside Higher Ed, October 1, 2010

When the Budget Sinks, Can Student Learning Still Rise? A Fable
Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officers Institute
Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 11, 2009

Can Learning Be Improved When Budgets are in the Red? (with Cheryl Ching)
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 25, 2010

When Hope and History Rhyme: Good Work in Hard Times
The Teagle Foundation Annual Report 2009

Talking the Talk, Then Walking the Walk
Inside Higher Ed, September 25, 2009

As an Economy Measure, the Light at the End of the Tunnel Has Been Turned Off
Meeting of the Spencer-Teagle "Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education" Projects
Durham, North Carolina, June 11, 2009

The View from My Perch: A Teagle Perspective on Improving Higher Education Now
Faculty Retreat at Hope College
Holland, Michigan, February 10, 2009

What's Happened to the Major in Liberal Education?
Liberal Education, Spring 2009

A Second Adolescence: Two Big Questions and Where They Belong
Meeting of the Institute of College Student Values
Tallahassee, Florida, February 1, 2008

The Role of the Undergraduate Major in Advancing Liberal Learning
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Washington, DC, January 4, 2008

Trifecta, or, Three Bets Teagle is Making to Improve Student Learning
The Teagle Foundation Annual Report 2008

Looking Ahead: Letters to the Next President from Higher Education's Leaders
Change Magazine, September - October 2008

Searching for Islands of Success
Inside Higher Ed, October 4, 2007

Watching Charlotte Climb: Little Steps Towards Big Questions
Liberal Education, Spring 2007

Do as I Say, Not as I Did
Annual Meeting of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Boston, Massachusetts, December 7, 2006

Last Bastion of Liberal Education?
Inside Higher Ed, July 24, 2006

Ready for the Freight Train
Meeting of the Council of Independent Colleges-Collegiate Learning Assessment Consortium
July 24, 2006

The Right Time and Place for Big Questions
The Chronicle Review, June 9, 2006

Dreams and Fancies
2006 Annalists Letter, Hamilton College
June 3, 2006

From Foxes to Hedgehogs
Inside Higher Ed, March 31, 2006

Liberal Education: Liberating Education
Remarks to fifth form students and their parents at St. George's School
Newport, Rhode Island, February 16, 2006

Where Have All the Big Questions Gone?
Inside Higher Ed, December 12, 2005

Give Majors an Overhaul
Slate, November 15, 2005

Morality and other "Big Questions" in Liberal Education
Remarks to the Mid-Atlantic Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 15, 2005

The Earliest Evidence for Liberal Education (Draft)
November 9, 2004

Said Woodrow Wilson, "My Dearest West ...": Reflections on a Century of the Departmental Organization of Knowledge (Draft)
The William Kelly Prentice Lecture, Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, December 2, 2003

Moral Knowledge in the Modern University
Ideas, December 1999