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Volume CXI, Issue 2
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NEW YORK, JANUARY 28, 2025
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Matthew Schule Presents Research at the American Philosophical Association Meeting
Manhattan University Receives Grant from Masterclass Isaiah Rosario Senior Writer
Due to a large grant from Masterclass and a partnership with the James Patterson Honors program, students and employees received a year’s membership in the Masterclass streaming platform. The membership expires on Jan. 30, 2026. Masterclass is a streaming service that gives students and faculty members access to video lessons from some of the biggest names across multiple industries. Some categories include acting and performing arts, business, music, health and wellness, writing and more. Associate Provost Bridget Chalk mentioned that after the announcement of the James Patterson Honors Program at Manhattan University, Masterclass reached out to Patterson about its desire to honor MU with a grant, as Patterson was one of the founding talents at the company. His creative writing course is known as one of their signature products. In a statement to the Associated Press, Patterson spoke about his goals for the new honors program and what he sees this program doing in the future. “Our goal in this leadership program is to provide a solid foundation in the critical areas of writing and creative problem solving coupled with a robust professional preparation and exposure to leaders in a wide
range of work environments,” Patterson said. Chalk believes that this grant aligns greatly with the university’s mission as Masterclass courses are aimed to facilitate a spirit of lifelong learning. “To take a master class course, you don’t need to be enrolled necessarily in a program here or anywhere,” Chalk said. “You can be a high school student, you can be a retiree, or anywhere in between, and you can learn through masterclass … I think that the desire to be a life model learner is something we seek to instill in our students at Manhattan College [University] as part of our mission and I think Masterclass as a concept is aligned with that.” Chalk also discussed how she believes these goals and objectives align with the James Patterson Honors program, specifically, the speaker series the program will offer. “One of the signature elements of this program is going to be a speaker series with the same sorts of elite leaders across industry and society coming to speak to the students at Manhattan University, not just those in the Honors Program, but all of our whole community,” Chalk said. “In some ways, Masterclass is an extension of that concept. These leaders are coming to further instruct students and the larger community in whatever their career paths have looked like.” __________________________
Manhattan University senior, Matthew Schule, got the chance to present his eleven-month long research at the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) annual conference of their eastern division in Manhattan from Jan. 8-11. Schule’s research project, “Allegory of the Three Temporal Ekstasis,” was inspired by the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre, two prominent philosophers who were best known for their ideas of totalitarianism and existentialism. After taking a roots philosophy class with Sarah Scott, Ph.D., and learning more about of the ideas of Arendt and Sartre, Schule felt especially inspired to submit a proposal
for research to the Branigan Scholars Grant, which aims to, “promote undergraduate research in the humanities by awarding several grants per year in excess of $3000 each for student-initiated projects,” according to manhattan.edu. Brian Chalk, Ph.D., along with five other faculty members, is on the committee of the Branigan Grant. He and the other members review these proposals and award students with the grant according to specific guidelines. “We look for a researchable question, meaning a question that the student is asking needs to be sufficiently attuned to what’s going on in their chosen field,” Chalk said. “This is to make the contribution part of a scholarly conversation that’s taking place, while also being a unique contribution in that discourse.” Schule’s research explores the relationship between
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art, reality and time, using a triptych format to represent past, present and future. He was particularly interested in Arendt’s idea of “the life of the mind” and Sartre’s take on nothingness. Fusing them together, he created the basis of his proposal. “She [Arendt] calls it the realm of the thinking ego, when you’re sort of in your head, you’re pretty much nowhere,” Schule said. “Like when you’re lost in thought, you’re not really anywhere. It’s sort of this timeless place. Using that infusion with Sartre’s ideas of nothingness and how, pretty much self consciousness is a nothingness, I was seeing how there were parallels between the two authors.” In order to get this idea across, Schule took a somewhat unconventional route. As an art history minor and an artist __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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