At a moment that brings unprecedented threats to higher education and academic freedom in the US, coupled with existential challenges to institutional norms and democratic institutions, please join our two panelists to discuss how we might communicate aspects of our core academic values and work in ways that might counter popular misconceptions that threaten higher education.
Adrienne Nazon, Vice President of External Relations and Communications for the University of Illinois System: Values and Voice with a Landscape View
We find ourselves in complex times with many stakeholders in a noisy complicated marketplace. I will try to characterize this landscape with an eye toward different stakeholders and impacts in hopes of providing a lens through which one could consider how to navigate voice and agency.
Jan Erkert, Director of the University of Illinois OpEd Alumni Project, whose mission advocates, “Whoever Tells the Story, Writes History”: The World Needs to Know What We Do!
In these volatile times, academics need to write history by sharing our stories about the immense impact of our research and teaching on everyday people. How might we engage in rigorously articulated plain-speak to share what we do and why we do it? What are the challenges, risks, and opportunities when we bring our work to a larger audience? The world is calling on us to inform, educate and inspire!
Moderated by Robin Kar, Professor of Law & Philosophy, President of the AAUP chapter.