The AUP Teaching and Learning Center invites the AUP community to come together for a series of events scheduled next Wednesday, March 22 entitled “reflective spaces, safe places: the mission of education in our times.”
Professor Rebekah Rast, director of The Teaching and Learning Center, explains: “The idea of having a special day this semester devoted to open discussion and reflection amongst members of the AUP community emerged as a response to student and faculty desire to pause and reflect on the changing current global and cultural paradigm and our role as citizens within it. We wish to focus on open dialogue and be as inclusive as possible. The idea is to refrain from arguing strong political positions and to focus, rather, on fundamental issues of human rights, education, freedom of speech, social justice, democracy, and civic engagement.”
Professor Rast and Professor Russell Williams have worked with a number of students, including Henry Goldenberg and Michelle Lynch, to plan the day’s events. In some cases, students will present brief reports of the research they are doing in courses that deal directly with these issues. In other cases, discussions and panels will create spaces to think about and discuss these issues.
