Today on Honorable Mentions Wade talks about the Shackouls Honors College's Oxford Summer Study Abroad Program with Dean Christopher Snyder and distinguished Oxford professor Dr. Tudor Jones.
Dr. Jones gives some history about the centuries-old University of Oxford, details about the Summer Study Abroad program, and explains Oxford's unique approach to educating undergraduate students. Wade also discovers Oxford has a baseball team.
A political historian, Dr. Jones explains to Wade the concept of liberalism in terms of its historic and European meaning and how it differs from American understandings of the term. Finally, they talk about Dr. Jones' most recent book, Bob Dylan and the British Sixties: A Cultural History.