I come to academia from practice and remain completely baffled by the lack of understanding of the power of shared purpose. It’s as if we eschew it in the name of academic freedom, even when said freedom is being questioned. Looking forward to the next installment.
Faculty love to invoke shared purpose and then that invocation disappears frequently at the level of action and practice. I actually think that's an interesting research problem with some weighty philosophical/political implications.
But where better will you find out what’s really happening on campuses than a conference on discourse at Stanford?
Fingers on the pulse! Only on the pulse of the wrong species, more or less.
So what is your list of ten possibilities?
Stay tuned! That's next week's column.
I come to academia from practice and remain completely baffled by the lack of understanding of the power of shared purpose. It’s as if we eschew it in the name of academic freedom, even when said freedom is being questioned. Looking forward to the next installment.
Faculty love to invoke shared purpose and then that invocation disappears frequently at the level of action and practice. I actually think that's an interesting research problem with some weighty philosophical/political implications.