What’s the University for?

Spring Colloquium 2000

The Spring 2000 Colloquium Series, entitled “What’s the University For?” addressed the ways in which changes in the broader culture are affecting the culture of the university, the role of university and public intellectuals, and the moral purposes of the university.

FEATURING:

Mark Edmundson, University of Virginia

Jackson Lears, Rutgers University

Gerald Graff, University of Illinois, Chicago

Russell Jacoby, UCLA

George Marsden, Notre Dame University

Julie Reuben, Harvard University

Richard Rorty, Stanford University

Papers from this colloquium are published in the Fall 2000 issue of The Hedgehog Review.