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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 …
Higher Education On The World Stage Of Democracy: Overcoming An "Anemia Of Deeds", Nancy Cantor
Higher Education On The World Stage Of Democracy: Overcoming An "Anemia Of Deeds", Nancy Cantor
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It is no exaggeration to state that higher education always has understood its most fundamental mission is to prepare people for their civic responsibilities. Even the first academies of ancient Greece were self-consciously convened for this purpose. So, when university leaders met last June under the auspices of the Council of Europe for the International Conference on the Responsibility of Higher Education for a Democratic Culture, it was not an abrupt departure from tradition, although many of the traditions of citizenship have changed significantly since the days of the Greek polis. Rather, that meeting in Strasbourg last June was a …
Acting On The Commitment The Continuing Case For Diversity In Higher Education And Current Challenges, Nancy Cantor
Acting On The Commitment The Continuing Case For Diversity In Higher Education And Current Challenges, Nancy Cantor
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I’m delighted to speak with you today and to say how much I admire the work of the National Council for Research on Women for making clear the many ways that the talents of the nation’s majority population---more than 149 million girls and women---are still largely untapped in the nation’s corporate boardrooms, the professions, and in the halls of influence and power.
Thoughts On Art, Truth, And Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
Thoughts On Art, Truth, And Higher Education, Nancy Cantor
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I want to take a few moments tonight to walk the two-way street, starting from the core purposes of higher education: to make discoveries that change lives and to prepare better citizens for our collective future. How does the training, sustaining, and presenting of the arts in higher education serve, as Barbara White so beautifully captured it, to cultivate the garden of – "experience-oriented imaginative space," in ways that give us hope about our collective future?v