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Chair, Liberal Arts
Academic Information
- Ph.D., University of Cincinnati.
Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences, March, 1998.
Recipient of University Graduate Scholarship, 1993-94,
94-95, 95-96, 96-97.
- Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Teacher Certification program in Secondary English completed
as of May, 1993.
- M.A., Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York. Philosophy and Education, 1989.
Master's Project on W.E.B. Dubois and discipline in nineteenth
century centers of higher learning for African Americans.
- B.A., Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts. Philosophy, 1985.
- University Of Durham, Durham, England.
Junior year abroad, 1983-84.
Biographical Information
Before coming to Antioch University
McGregor, I served as the chair of the Philosophy Department
at Thomas More College in Northern Kentucky, where I taught
over twenty different classes during a span of over ten
years. In addition to teaching a variety of Philosophy courses,
I have also developed and taught a number of other interdisciplinary
courses. In many of my classes, I have incorporated service
learning and community engagement activities in order to
challenge students to realize new and actual possibilities
for the concepts they learn in their classes.
I have taught in a number of formats
and styles to a wide variety of students, including inner-city
junior high school students (in New York and Cincinnati),
gifted high school juniors (through the Kentucky Governor’s
Scholars Program), traditional age college students, returning,
and “non-traditional” adult learners. In addition,
I have organized and participated in a service learning
trip to Jamaica linked to a Philosophy of Education course.
I have also published two books, and am working on a joint
project entitled Service Learning as a Critical Pedagogy.
I believe that each concept a student
learns has meaning largely in the context of that student’s
lived experience; I also believe it is essential for adult
learners to develop a deeper understanding of their life
experience by continually renewing their commitments to
action, reflection, discussion, and critical investigation.
Finally, I believe it is an essential principle of higher
education that university life and community life continue
to feed and rejuvenate one another.
Specialization
- Aesthetics and Literary Theory
- Applied Ethics: (Social Ethics, Environmental
Ethics, Business Ethics)
- Foucault, Contemporary French Philosophy
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of Education
- Philosophy of Human Rights
- Social and Political Philosophy
Areas of Interests
- International Human Rights
- Developing the theory and practice
of Service Learning
- Campus Community Engagement
Professional Organizations
& Affiliations
- American Philosophical Association
- Kentucky Philosophical Association
- Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed
- Rouge Forum
Teaching Experience
- Thomas More College, Crestview Hills,
Ky., Department of Philosophy,1993-2003.
- Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program,
1999-2002.
- Adjunct Lecturer, University of Cincinnati
Honors Scholars Program, 2003.
- Adjunct Lecturer, Clermont College,
1997-1998.
- St. Mark School, Cincinnati, 1990-1993.
- New York City Board Of Education,
1988-1989.
- St. Joseph School, New York, 1985-1988
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