<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/westmont-news/event-explores-liberal-arts-fragile-planet.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>02/14/2017</pubDate><title>Event Explores Liberal Arts, Fragile Planet</title><excerpt>Westmont’s Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts examines ways a liberal arts education might encourage sustainability and ecological efforts at its 16th annual conference March 23-25. Plenary sessions of the Conversation on the Liberal Arts, “Liberal Arts for a Fragile Planet” are free and open to the public. Registration, which includes all meals Friday dinner through Saturday lunch, as well as shuttle service between select hotels and the Westmont campus, costs $250 for general admission or $100 for students (graduate or undergraduate). To register or for more information, please visit westmont.edu/institute or call (805)565-6124.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2017/02/LA16_0059-505x337.jpg" alt="Dr. Cheri Larsen Hoeckley speaks at the 2016 Conversation on the Liberal Arts"/>
        </image><caption>Dr. Cheri Larsen Hoeckley speaks at the 2016 Conversation on the Liberal Arts</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>