BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:565aeea3-b401-49ae-a052-1c18260ec4aa.228232@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20230628T211259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T211259Z LOCATION: SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference 2023 - Surveying the University: The Pur pose of Higher Education in Divisive Times DESCRIPTION:John Dewey noted a century ago that education is both the fund amental mechanism of social progress and reform and the vehicle by which certain cultural norms and mores are perpetuated into the future. What is the primary purpose of higher education in the 21st century? Should soci al progress and cultural critique be actively privileged\, or should an e ducator’s main role be to deliver uniform content and ensure a level of c onformity toward a culturally shared definition of “educated citizenship? ” Lately\, local school board battles\, scrutiny and censorship of librar ies\, accusations of “liberal bias” on college campuses\, and posthumous children’s book editing\, all suggest that this question is urgently impo rtant. Who gets to decide what information is disseminated\, taught\, or even available? How is balance achieved—and on what grounds—between selec tion\, protection\, and intellectual freedom? What is the moral duty of e ducation for the future of our nation? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><s pan>John Dewey noted a century ago that education is both the fundamental mechanism of social progress and reform and the vehicle by which certain cultural norms and mores are perpetuated into the future. What is the pr imary purpose of higher education in the 21st</span><span> century? Shoul d social progress and cultural critique be actively privileged\, or shoul d an educator’s main role be to deliver uniform content and ensure a leve l of conformity toward a culturally shared definition of “educated citize nship?” Lately\, local school board battles\, scrutiny and censorship of libraries\, accusations of “liberal bias” on college campuses\, and posth umous children’s book editing\, all suggest that this question is urgentl y important. Who gets to decide what information is disseminated\, taught \, or even available? How is balance achieved—and on what grounds—between selection\, protection\, and intellectual freedom? What is the moral dut y of education for the future of our nation?</span></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T115000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/2023/ CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR