Opening Night Town Hall Forum
The United States and/in the World:
What Americans Need to Know and What Colleges Need to Teach
Wednesday, January 25 - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
We invite a diverse group of scholars and public intellectuals
to engage with one of the challenges of the Liberal Education
and America’s Promise campaign: to spark public debate
about the kinds of knowledge, skills, and values needed to
prepare today‘s students—from school through college—for
an era of global interdependence and greater expectations.
Together with the audience, the panel will identify critical
questions that all responsible citizens need to ask about
the world, especially about the role of the United States,
and the leadership required from higher education institutions
and the academy.
- How do we define and measure “global
preparedness”
or “global competence”?
- What knowledge and skill
areas have we neglected?
- How does the new academy exercise
leadership?
- What role do we play in responding to global
challenges?
- How do we move from rhetorical commitments
to real solutions to global problems?
Many global issues are intertwined with questions of privilege,
oppression, marginalization, and inequality. How do we teach
effectively and accurately about controversial global issues
that raise multiple contested readings of “America’s
Promise”? How do we maintain a healthy environment of
free exchange and debate in the classroom?
Panelists include:
Clifford Adelman, Senior Research Analyst,
United States Department of Education
Sanford Ungar, President, Goucher College
David Little, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor
of the Practice of Religion, Ethnicity, and International
Conflict, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University
Azar Nafisi, Director of The Dialogue Project
and Visiting Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, School
of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: David Townsend, Senior
Adviser, The Aspen Institute
If you have questions, please e-mail us at meetings@aacu.org.
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