Rethinking continues

Senate series resumes

On the heels of a successful debut, a Faculty Senate-sponsored lecture series continues next Thursday.

The “Rethinking the University” series continues at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, with William Sullivan from the Carnegie Foundation. Following Sullivan’s lecture, “The University as Citizen: The Future of an Identity” in 110 Kane Hall, UW professors John Palka and Christine di Stefano will give separate responses. Then the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and offer comments. The lecture series is part of President Richard L. McCormick’s Conversations About the Future initiative, first announced during a speech last fall.

Gerry Phillipsen

“I think William Sullivan has a very thoughtful position worked out on liberal education,” Faculty Senate Chair Gerry Philipsen said. “He’s done a very good job of presenting the case for a liberal education that is socially engaged. And he makes a very powerful articulation of the future of liberal education that is consistent with the kind of position taken by President McCormick in his speech last September.”

The format is slightly different from that used in the Jan. 5 debut when 110 Kane Hall filled to capacity and the doors had to be locked during the event to stop the enthusiastic crowd from pouring in.

Sullivan is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a philosophy professor at La Salle University.

He has been an active researcher in the areas of political and social theory, the philosophy of the social sciences, ethics, the study of American society and values, the professions and education. He is co-author of “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life” and “The Good Society.” He is the author of “Reconstructing Public Philosophy” and “Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in American Life.”

You are invited to follow the conversation and contribute at:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwfuture/about.html ¶

Steve Hill