Wednesday, April 9 2025
4:30-6:00pm ET
Kleinman Center Energy Forum (Fisher Fine Arts Library, 4th Floor)
202 S. 34th St., Philadelphia
Part Three of the 2025 Faculty Senate Colloquium Series on The Future of American Universities.
The Opening of the American Mind:
Higher Education in the Future
Higher education in the United States is under siege. Politicians have turned some of our greatest institutions into political punching bags, and the public is losing confidence in the value of the education those institutions provide. Where do we go from here? How might the nature of higher education be reconceptualized? Should the classic four-year undergraduate program give way to a new model, and if so what should that model look like? Are there lessons that we can learn from abroad about how best to structure institutions of higher education?
Welcome and Moderator:
John L. Jackson, Jr., Provost and Richard Perry University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
Jonathan Holloway, President, Rutgers University
Additional participants to be announced