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Anchor Institutions-Connecting With Community For Innovation And Opportunity, Nancy Cantor
Anchor Institutions-Connecting With Community For Innovation And Opportunity, Nancy Cantor
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On the surface, it would be hard to find institutions situated more differently than Syracuse University in upstate New York and the University of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. We are a private university in a post-industrial Rust Belt city. For nearly 60 years, residents have been leaving the city for the hilly lake country around us, ignoring both the city’s attractions and the drawbacks of commuting by car through 170 inches of snow a year. Even the SU campus, which sits on a hill close to downtown, was cut off from the city center by the construction of …
Are College Rankings Out Of Step With America's Future?, Nancy Cantor
Are College Rankings Out Of Step With America's Future?, Nancy Cantor
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As U.S. News & World Report issues its newest rankings, we are reminded not only of the volatility and mystery surrounding these magazine rankings, but, much more importantly, of the ways in which the rankings simply don't begin to comprehensively capture the strategic directions that most of higher education must follow to establish secure footholds in what is often referred to as a "new normal" world.
We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For, Nancy Cantor
We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For, Nancy Cantor
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In the midst of a frenzy of partisan accusation and counter-accusation over the debt and economic woes more generally, the civil rights song We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For is worth recalling. In this month of the dedication of the King Memorial in Washington, the song captures the freedom movement's grassroots wisdom often lost in today's focus on famous leaders. Ending segregation was too big a task for the courts, the Kennedy administration, Congress or eloquent civil rights leaders to accomplish on their own. It took the work of everyone.
It's Graduation Time-So What Do We Want From Universities?, Nancy Cantor
It's Graduation Time-So What Do We Want From Universities?, Nancy Cantor
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It is that season of graduation again, and this year's group of college and university graduates is poised to enter an ever more difficult and volatile global marketplace. At the same time, on the world stage, struggles abound, wrought by overconsumption of environmental resources and rampant failures at peaceful coexistence. At home, the results of the 2010 census frame a national dialogue about changing demographics, and the weight of job losses intensifies the zero-sum debates on immigration.
Gender Equity In The Sciences": Forging A "Third Space", Nancy Cantor
Gender Equity In The Sciences": Forging A "Third Space", Nancy Cantor
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We’re coming to the end of the college graduation season, and many of us are still thinking about the brilliant and hopeful young women who have passed through our lives and are now moving on. Their life chances have been --- and will be --- deeply intertwined with our own, and as we think about creating gender equity in the spaces we inhabit, we are also talking about them and all that depends on our success.
Inciting Insight: Situating The Arts In Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
Inciting Insight: Situating The Arts In Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
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This morning, after two very lively days of discussion, I’m glad to have a chance to address the "nuts and bolts" of models and metrics for situating the arts in higher education. This matters profoundly because the arts already suffuse our society and culture as sources of connectedness, continuity and meaning. I think what Susan Sontag said of photography is true of all the arts, that they are the "arm of consciousness," and that they "make up and thicken the environment we recognize as modern."
Scholarship In Action: Remapping Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
Scholarship In Action: Remapping Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
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I‘m very happy to be invited to speak with you on this beautiful campus at a time of year when all things seem possible. Warmer days and graduation are just ahead, and the air is full of promise. It‘s a good moment to applaud the Wellesley ―Women Who Will‖ make a difference in the world. It‘s also a chance to consider how our institutions themselves---Wellesley College and Syracuse University---can make a difference, because all colleges and universities---public or private, large or small, urban or rural---have a mandate to be a public good.
“One Nation, Indivisible”: The Value Of Diversity In Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
“One Nation, Indivisible”: The Value Of Diversity In Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
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For many of us, certainly for me, it seems particularly appropriate to be reflecting today on the value of diversity in higher education from a podium at the University of Michigan. This is a place where many of us crafted a defense of diversity as a critical element of educational excellence in the Supreme Court cases of Gratz and Grutter. The State of Michigan is also a place that has now turned its legislative back on affirmative action to achieve diversity in higher education. Indeed, with the passage of Proposal 2, the State of Michigan joined with many other …