EPISODE · Nov 8, 2023 · 1H 23M
The Jodidi Lecture with Dame Louise Richardson / How Can Universities Address the Crisis in Democracy?
from Weatherhead Events · host Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
Speaker Dame Louise Richardson, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York. Moderator Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University. All events hosted or sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Events here are also available to watch on video at our YouTube channel. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube
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Dame Louise Richardson looks at the forces driving the global decline in democratic governments and the national decline in democratic practices. She says higher education has the ability to generate solutions, optimism, and trust. Richardson, a former vice-chancellor of Oxford University and principal and vice-chancellor of St. Andrews University, explains the role universities must play to close the diploma divide; teach tolerance; encourage participation, access, inclusivity, and freedom of speech; and act as sources for reliable and open knowledge, and fact-based information. She also warns that they can’t do it alone.
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