By Dan Wueste, Ph. D.
As a university, where are we today? To answer that question, we must take a look at our past.
Sponsored by the Rutland Institute for Ethics, this year’s Presidential Colloquium, Remembering, Reckoning and Responsibility, will explore the significance of where we have been in knowing who we are now. This is an important question on the societal, organizational, and individual level. It invites attention to cognitive and social biases that are, more often than not, unnoticed and unacknowledged, but strongly influence judgments and decisions about individual action as well as public policy. And, most important, what’s at stake here is, in a word, “character,” the character of an organization or an individual, for example.
We’ll explore these issues in the 2014-15 colloquium series of lectures. The first can’t miss event begins at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday Oct. 7 in the Academic Success Center, room 118. Todd May, Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities, will discuss, What Makes a Life Meaningful? Four student commentators will respond to his talk, and I’d ask you to encourage your students to attend.
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