![]() ![]() ![]() Witness the fluff that has passed for “gen ed” at American universities in recent years: “students from Dartmouth to Stanford are getting academic credit for studying Star Trek and Looney Toons” at Stanford, students can enroll in “How Tasty Were My French Sisters” at Michigan, coursework is offered on “diva-worship, drag, and muscle culture.” 3 Harvard has offered a class called “Anal Sex 101.” 4 Zombie studies are particularly in vogue, pioneered by Arthur Blumberg of the University of Baltimore. Then again, these are cutting-edge, relatively hi-brow subjects to teach and study these days. One might also question her scholarly credentials, given that her research agenda includes vampires and Lady Gaga. Professor Click’s call for “muscle” to censor a journalist exhibited questionable values for someone with an appointment in a journalism school, and a questionable temperament to be a professor responsible for cultivating young minds. President Botstein of Bard offered the usual pieties invoked to define the essence of a university: a commitment to the scholarly “pursuit of knowledge” and “truth” based on “reasoned argument, evidence, and rigorous verification” a commitment to “academic freedom” and free exchange of ideas “no matter how uncomfortable” and a commitment to “nonpartisanship” and avoiding pressures to “create a consensus of belief that can marginalize disagreement and dissent.” 1 These are the very core values now at risk, under attack not so much from outside the walls of the ivory tower, as Botstein argues, but rather from within and not so much from the right as from the left, the erstwhile bastion of free thought. ![]() What happened at Mizzou has been replicated elsewhere and is symptomatic of the larger problems found across the higher education landscape. Louis, has written a case study of the 2015 crisis at the University of Missouri, using it as a window into the declining commitment to diversity, free speech, and academic rigor nationwide. Martin Rochester, Curators’ Teaching Professor of political science at University of Missouri-St. We hope you will join us for this transformative experience, combining praxis and practice as we collectively fortify our knowledge, skill, will and capacity to transform schools, communities, systems and organizations into racially equitable, social just environments that nurture the infinite potential of all people.NAS member J. Our audience will include 1,000 change agents including policy makers, business and government leaders, school system administrators and teachers, higher education faculty and administration, community leaders, families, and students. On November 4-8, 2023, the National Summit for Courageous Conversation® (NSCC) will convene leaders from across the nation and around the globe to examine, embrace, and celebrate racial equity and social justice. A truth, that is again, criminalized and silenced by those who find comfort in the grisly reality it has wrought. This clause, seminal to the context of its establishment, obscures the nation’s truth on race, then and now. “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary….to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth, the equal station to which Nature and God entitle them….requires that they should declare the causes which impel them….” ![]()
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