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Trevor Durbin on “Teaching to Cultivate a Better Anthropocene: From Failure to Nurture”

Virtual

Imagine a thoughtful student. Imagine their distress when confronted with some of our most urgent challenges: climate change, species extinction, plastic pollution, food insecurity, and climate-driven conflict. In short: a bad Anthropocene. They ask: “It’s all so overwhelming, what can I do that will actually make a difference?” How would you answer? Nearly a decade […]

Keynote: Kathleen Fitzpatrick on “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University”

Virtual

Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities―the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation―are at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. It is imperative that we re-center the mission of the university to rebuild that lost trust. Critical thinking―the heart of […]