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SUMMARY:Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore: Michael S. Roth in conversation with Roxanne Coady
DESCRIPTION:Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth will be in conversation with Roxanne Coady\, founder of RJ Julia Booksellers\, about his new release\, Safe Enough Spaces\, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education.\n\n\n\nIn this bracing book\, President Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy\, candor\, subtlety\, and insight\, Roth offers a sane approach to the noisy debates surrounding affirmative action\, political correctness\, and free speech\, urging us to envision college as a space in which students are empowered to engage with criticism and with a variety of ideas.\n\n \n\nCountering the increasing cynical dismissal from both liberals and conservatives of the traditional core values of higher education\, Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion\, Free Speech\, and Political Correctness on College Campuses champions the merits of different diversities\, including intellectual diversity\, with a timely call for universities to embrace boldness\, rigor\, and practical idealism.\n\n \n\nMichael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University and a historian\, curator\, and teacher. His previous books include Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. \n\n \n\nA reception and book signing\, provided by Wesleyan University\, will immediately follow presentation.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Wesleyan University \;President \;Michael \;S. \;Roth will be in conversation with Roxanne Coady\, founder of RJ Julia Booksellers\, about his new release\, \;Safe Enough Spaces\, a \;compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education.
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\nIn this bracing book\, President Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy\, candor\, subtlety\, and insight\, Roth offers a sane approach to the noisy debates surrounding affirmative action\, political correctness\, and free speech\, urging us to envision college as a space in which students are empowered to engage with criticism and with a variety of ideas.
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\nCountering the increasing cynical dismissal&mdash\;from both liberals and conservatives&mdash\;of the traditional core values of higher education\, \;Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist&rsquo\;s Approach to Inclusion\, Free Speech\, and Political Correctness on College Campuses \;champions the merits of different diversities\, including intellectual diversity\, with a timely call for universities to embrace boldness\, rigor\, and practical idealism.
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\n\nMichael S. Roth \;is president of Wesleyan University and a historian\, curator\, and teacher. His previous books include \;Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. \;
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\n\nA reception \;and \;book signing\, \;provided by Wesleyan University\, will \;immediately follow \;presentation. \;
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LOCATION:Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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URL:https://business.middlesexchamber.com/events/details/wesleyan-rj-julia-bookstore-michael-s-roth-in-conversation-with-roxanne-coady-12254
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