{"id":354,"date":"2025-12-02T19:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=354"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:10:25","slug":"a-message-from-the-dean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-8\/a-message-from-the-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message From the Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The liberal arts are more than a set of courses within the academic undergraduate experience. These disciplines provide the foundation of all human knowledge, with literature taking a central seat within the curriculum. While that may sound audacious, it is true. Innovation and technology; medical advancements; cultural and historical understanding; effective communication; human purpose\u2026.all of life\u2019s enduring questions and discoveries begin within a grounding in the liberal arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<em>MSU Roadrunner Review<\/em>\u00a0inhabits an important place within the liberal arts curriculum at MSU Denver.\u00a0It contains human insight\u2014carefully curated (by students) through a literary lens, opening the door for readers to directly experience the humanities and make connections within their own life experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a modern world that tends to encourage quick transactional experiences over deeper intellectual ones, this journal gives the reader a respite from the noise. It is a part of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences mission, vision, and values: providing essential viewpoints for our students as they pursue meaningful careers and, most importantly, lives of substance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: right\">Dr. John Masserini<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: right\">Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: right\">Metropolitan State University of Denver<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-8\/toc-8\/\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liberal arts are more than a set of courses within the academic undergraduate experience. These disciplines provide the foundation of all human knowledge, with literature taking a central seat within the curriculum. While that may sound audacious, it is true. Innovation and technology; medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":287,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}