Agents and Architects of Democracy: The Struggle for the Future of Higher Education

A webinar, sponsored locally by the Center for Service and Learning and IUPUI’s American Democracy Project, concerning the future of higher education will be held from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 3, in UL1125M

Among the questions the webinar will address are:

How can higher education reverse the disturbing trends we see occurring: pressures for higher education to become increasingly a private good with students as customers, institutions as industries, and competitive success measured by how many are refused admission?

Join Harry Boyte, founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship now at Augsburg College, and a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, along with a panel of distinguished scholars who are grappling with how higher education institutions can integrate civic agency in ways that go beyond activities towards an identity of engagement, with institutions deeply grounded in their communities and regions and “filled with the democratic spirit,” as former Harvard president Charles Elliott once described his university. This webcast will explore efforts underway at several institutions with the intent of launching an international discussion of these questions.

Co-sponsors of the event are The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)'s American Democracy Project and The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

To register for the event, visit: http://csl.iupui.edu/events/eventsRegistration.asp?id=1778, or visit or visit the CSL Events Calendar at http://csl.iupui.edu.