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Collaborative Research and the Future of Higher Education: Building Diverse Campus-Community Partnerships - panel and lunchtime workshops featuring the Grassroots Humanities Collaboration

RSVP for lunch at: http://tinyurl.com/macgrassroots

How do the structures of higher education help or hinder efforts to bridge campuses and communities? Why are fields that teach interpretive and "meaning-making" methods so important? How might graduates with bachelor or graduate degrees in the humanities and humanistic social sciences bring the methodological and intellectual insights of their fields into the public sphere in a moment where higher ed and government are pursuing policies of austerity and "applicability" of knowledge? How might researchers in these disciplines respond to diverse local problems in collaboration with their local communities?

Join a panel of speakers who are actively engaging with these questions in their collaborative work as well as their individual scholarship and activism. At two workshops and a panel discussion, we will explore together the possibilities and limits of formal higher education, and the role of academic knowledge and study in contemporary social life. Speakers include Laura Goldblatt, Chris Newfield, Althea Sircar, and Mike Strayer.

Related Events:

Thursday, 11:30am-1pm - Workshop: Bringing Critical University Studies to the small liberal arts context. (Carnegie 204) RSVP for lunch at http://tinyurl.com/macgrassroots

Panel Discussion: Thursday, February 21, 4:45pm - 6:15pm. JBD (Campus Center) Reception follows in Markim Hall (Annan IGC) basement.

All are welcome to attend any or all of these events.

Also sponsored by American Studies, Educational Studies, Environmental Studies, Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship (IGC), Political Science, Critical Theory, and Urban Studies