BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The series began this September with a visit by Professor Emeri ta Nancy Folbre (University of Massachussets\, Amherst). Folbre\, an econo mist\, provided a helpful history of shifts in funding for public higher e ducation. She also reflected on the grassroots political work that she and others undertook to maintain state funding for UMass. In November\, we he ard a lecture from Coursera CEO and former Yale President\, Rick Levin. Le vin made the case for a common curriculum designed to foster cross-cultura l understanding along with other core competencies. Carolyn Dever joined u s in December\, describing efforts at Dartmouth\, where she serves as Prov ost\, to rethink liberal arts education. Among other things\, Dever stress ed the \;importance of multidisciplinary teaching and living/learning communities to bring campus-wide faculty and students together in dialogue of many kinds. \;The series concluded this February with a visit by H arry Boyte\, Senior Scholar at the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizensh ip at Augsburg College. Boyte challenged the audience not to reduce democr acy to the machinery of government or civics to volunteer work\, but to tr anscend our ivory tower detachment and imagine higher education as the ver y work of democracy.\nBlog posts about two of the lectures are available h ere: https://illinois.edu/blog/view/6525.\nVideos of three of the lectures are available here: https://undergrad-education.illinois.edu/initiatives/ lecture-discussion-series.html.\nNow it is time to use these lectures as o ccasions to continue our Campus Conversation. We hope that you will join u s regardless of how many of the lectures you were able to attend. The sess ion will begin with brief recaps of each lecture and then shift to open di scussion. Light refreshments will be served.Sponsor:Lecture and Discussion Committee of The Campus Conversation on Undergraduate Education DTEND:20160505T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T231527Z DTSTART:20160505T210000Z LOCATION:IL\,USA\,Champaign SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Concluding Conversation about Lectures on Undergraduate Education o n Campus UID:RFCALITEM639124785275702460 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The series began this September with a visi t by Professor Emerita Nancy Folbre (University of Massachussets\, Amherst ). Folbre\, an economist\, provided a helpful history of shifts in funding for public higher education. She also reflected on the grassroots politic al work that she and others undertook to maintain state funding for UMass. In November\, we heard a lecture from Coursera CEO and former Yale Presid ent\, Rick Levin. Levin made the case for a common curriculum designed to foster cross-cultural understanding along with other core competencies. Ca rolyn Dever joined us in December\, describing efforts at Dartmouth\, wher e she serves as Provost\, to rethink liberal arts education. Among other t hings\, Dever stressed the \;importance of multidisciplinary teaching and living/learning communities to bring campus-wide faculty and students together in dialogue of many kinds. \;The series concluded this Februa ry with a visit by Harry Boyte\, Senior Scholar at the Sabo Center for Dem ocracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College. Boyte challenged the audience not to reduce democracy to the machinery of government or civics to volunt eer work\, but to transcend our ivory tower detachment and imagine higher education as the very work of democracy.

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Blog posts about two of t he lectures are available here: https://illinois.edu/blog/view/6525.

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Videos of three of th e lectures are available here: https://undergrad-educa tion.illinois.edu/initiatives/lecture-discussion-series.html.

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Now it is time to use these lectures as occasions to continue our Campus C onversation. We hope that you will join us regardless of how many of the l ectures you were able to attend. The session will begin with brief recaps of each lecture and then shift to open discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsor:

Lecture an d Discussion Committee of The Campus Conversation on Undergraduate Educati on

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