Firebrands, Critics and Seers
Speakers at the 2007 Pope Center Conference.
They came! The saw! They spoke!
At the 2007 Pope Center Conference on “Building Excellence into American Higher Education,” that is. They dissected higher education with the precision of surgeons, exposed collegiate absurdities and told tales of their battles wih academic bureaucracies.
The conference is over, and the conference speakers are back fighting the good fight on campus. But their words live on! Just click on the links below to see to the conference speeches and panels:
What Does Excellence Mean?
Stephen H. Balch
Excellence at the Top: College Leaders Speak Out on Excellence
Willie Gilchrist, Earl Danieley, Richard Bishirjian, Harold Lee Martin, Sr.
Independent Campus Centers: The Promise and Peril
Russel Nieli, Robert Paquette, Mike Munger
Does Liberal Education Have a Future?
Harry R. Lewis
Restoring Excellence to the Curriculum
Elizabeth Kantor, James B. Murphy, Garry Walton