Mark Your Calendar-Next Tuesday-Webcast! Agents and Architects of Democracy:
The Struggle for the Future of Higher Education
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
3:00 PM–4:00 PM Eastern
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Central
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Mountain
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Pacific
How can higher education institutions integrate civic agency in ways that go beyond activities towards an identity of engagement?
Join this webcast to participate in a discussion of higher education’s emerging focus on civic engagement—how people develop the skills, confidence, and outlook to become shapers of their lives and communities and agents of change.
A few experiments with institution-wide change will offer examples for further work. These include the University of Minnesota, the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, and the American Democracy Project at Western Kentucky University.
Could civic agency become a core focus of higher education in the 21st century?
Who Should Attend This Webcast?
Those involved in the community engagement strand of higher education
The engaged teaching and student-as-collaborator networks
Those interested in questions of public scholarship
Those concerned about the trends toward higher education becoming a private good, not a public good.
Moderator:
Harry C. Boyte, founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship now at Augsburg College, and a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.
Presenters:
Barbara G. Burch, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, at Western Kentucky University.
Edwin Fogelman, professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Minnesota
Vijayendra Rao, lead economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank.
To learn more and register, visit http://www.scup.org/page/profdev/notravel/2009/democracy
