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"The Purposeful University"
Anne Neal is giving her keynote right now: "Debates about size of government, individual liberty, -- I'm not talking about this week! I'm talking about the debates over the U.S. Constitution, in Philadelphia, 300 years ago. It's not serendipity that all the founding fathers believed in the importance of a strong education." But, she continues, Americans today don't have a strong education -- despite the fact that students today will have many, many jobs in their careers, and so need a strong general education. But people here - at ATHENA - are committed to restoring universities to first principals.
She outlines the day: First, the keynote address from Professor Wilfred McClay; second, a panel with Ohio State University President Gordon Gee, Rutgers Professor Jackson Toby, and Drew University trustee Donald Drakeman; (then lunch;) then, third, a colloquy between Peter Berkowitz and James Kurth; and a final discussion with Arizona State University provost Elizabeth Capaldi, Council for Aid to Education Robert Benjamin, and University of Northern Colorado former President Robert Dickeson.
Now she introduces ACTA Board Chairman Dr. Bob Lewit, who decided, she says, that "in his retirement, he'd save Western Civilization."
Posted by Michael Pomeranz on November 05, 2010 at November 5, 2010 09:37 AM
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