Higher Education – New Aberdeen College https://newaberdeencollege.com Forming mature disciples of Christ in the traditions of classical learning and the Reformed faith Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://newaberdeencollege.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cropped-New-Aberdeen-College-Favicon-512x512-1-32x32.png Higher Education – New Aberdeen College https://newaberdeencollege.com 32 32 Latin Immersion Camp https://newaberdeencollege.com/latin-immersion-camp/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/latin-immersion-camp/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:59:56 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1407 REGISTER NOW! It’s time for Latin Camp. The Ancient Language Institute is moving from the internet to the physical world, in partnership with New Aberdeen College. Come join us in July 2026, for a 5-day Latin Immersion Camp, led by some of ALI’s great Latin teachers. We will be reading, speaking, laughing, praying, and writing in Latin at Resurrection Presbyterian Church (OPC) in…

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/latin-immersion-camp/feed/ 0 Astronomy in the Quadrivium https://newaberdeencollege.com/astronomy-in-the-quadrivium-the-crown-of-the-mathematical-arts/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/astronomy-in-the-quadrivium-the-crown-of-the-mathematical-arts/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:41:27 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1368 The Crown of the Mathematical Arts Within the Western tradition, the goal of education has never been the transmission of marketable skills. Rather, it has been understood as a formative path for training the mind and shaping the soul. Education, in this view, is not utilitarian but teleological—ordered toward wisdom and virtue. For this reason, the seven liberal arts…

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/astronomy-in-the-quadrivium-the-crown-of-the-mathematical-arts/feed/ 0 Brothers, The Trades Aren’t The Only Answer https://newaberdeencollege.com/brothers-the-trades-arent-the-only-answer/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/brothers-the-trades-arent-the-only-answer/#respond Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:49:00 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1287 Something peculiar is brewing in higher education. Enrollment trends are shifting as four-year colleges are declining. In fact, high school grads are skipping tertiary education altogether. What caused these changes? Ultimately, the flaws in traditional higher education are plentiful, even at Christian colleges. Substance abuse. Sexual licentiousness. Ideological indoctrination.

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/brothers-the-trades-arent-the-only-answer/feed/ 0 President Smith’s Remarks on the Occasion of New Aberdeen’s First Convocation https://newaberdeencollege.com/president-smiths-remarks-on-the-occasion-of-new-aberdeens-first-convocation/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/president-smiths-remarks-on-the-occasion-of-new-aberdeens-first-convocation/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:50:21 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1282 When I was in graduate school, I strolled through our church’s cemetery each Sunday before worship. I reveled in the tangible connection to previous generations of believers. But one plot haunted me. Rev. Joseph Wilson was a staunch nineteenth-century Southern Presbyterian minister who preached at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia. His son, Woodrow, spent his teenage years in the…

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/president-smiths-remarks-on-the-occasion-of-new-aberdeens-first-convocation/feed/ 0 Law and the Value of Classical Education https://newaberdeencollege.com/law-and-the-value-of-classical-education/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/law-and-the-value-of-classical-education/#respond Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:23:21 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1200 The relationship between college and vocation is popularly modeled something like this: This model is easily altered to accommodate careers which require postgraduate study, like law and medicine. There is something to be said for this model of college and vocation. It offers a definition of vocation: the career path which follows from the field you pick to study in college.

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/law-and-the-value-of-classical-education/feed/ 0 Why the Trump-Harvard Battle? https://newaberdeencollege.com/why-the-trump-harvard-battle/ Fri, 30 May 2025 20:04:49 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1111 Last weekend I watched The Return to the Hiding Place, a film tracing college students’ role in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. The movie contains a powerful scene in which a German officer confronts and threatens the student body president. The Nazi’s dictum struck a chord: “As goes the will of the students, so goes the will of the nation.” The film reminded me that the battle for our…

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]]> Science in Classical Christian Education https://newaberdeencollege.com/science-in-classical-christian-education/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:53:25 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1050 By Dr. Gabriel Williams When most people think of classical education, they think of the original seven liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric (i.e., the trivium), arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy (i.e., the quadrivium). For this reason, many believe that classical education has an inherent bias toward the humanities and against the natural sciences. However, as I will argue…

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]]> What Hath Classical Education To Do With AI, Part II: Curriculum https://newaberdeencollege.com/what-hath-classical-education-to-do-with-ai-part-ii-assessment-and-pedagogy/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/what-hath-classical-education-to-do-with-ai-part-ii-assessment-and-pedagogy/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:32:21 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=1022 By Joshua Pauling In Part 1 of this series, I briefly laid out how classical education, in its assessment and pedagogy, is ready to handle the AI Age. Here in Part 2, I explore how the same is true for a classical curriculum. Robin Phillips and I address the challenges of the digital age for education, home life, the church, society, and more in our new book Are We All Cyborgs Now?

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/what-hath-classical-education-to-do-with-ai-part-ii-assessment-and-pedagogy/feed/ 0 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Classical Education? https://newaberdeencollege.com/dei/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/dei/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:10:23 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=981 by Dr. Ryan Smith Faculty members quickly lined up across the center line of the gymnasium, unaware of the intimidating exercise awaiting them. As the moderator called out carefully crafted scenarios, each teacher either took a step forward or backward, depending upon whether that condition applied to them. “Your father read you books as a child.” “You took a vacation once a year.

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]]> https://newaberdeencollege.com/dei/feed/ 0 What Hath Classical Education To Do With AI, Part 1: Assessment and Pedagogy https://newaberdeencollege.com/what-hath-classical-education-to-do-with-ai-part-1-assessment-and-pedagogy/ https://newaberdeencollege.com/what-hath-classical-education-to-do-with-ai-part-1-assessment-and-pedagogy/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:17:51 +0000 https://newaberdeencollege.com/?p=969 By Josh Pauling, Guest Contributor In the summer of 2024, Open AI, a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), released its latest version of ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, where the “o” stands for “omni,” meaning all. This “omni-tool” can generate text, audio, and images, speak in a human voice, and perceive and interpret one’s physical surroundings.

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