Education Commons^™

Thoughts On Art, Truth, And Higher Education, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

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