Symposium on Political Education and the Modern University

Dear Service-learning Colleagues,

DePauw University Presents a Symposium on:
POLITICAL EDUCATION AND THE MODERN UNIVERSITY
April 7-12, 2003

In an era of historically low voter turnout, and with college students
often disengaged from the democratic process and indifferent to public
affairs, is there anything that universities can and should do to help
their students to be better citizens?  This questions will be addressed
by these prominent scholars and thinkers during a week-long symposium.

Featured speakers will include:
  a.. Benjamin R. Barber, Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil
Society and Wilson H. Elkins Professor, University of Maryland School of Public 
Affairs and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
  b.. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social
and Political Ethics, University of Chicago
  c.. Todd Gitlin,  Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia
University
  d.. Leroy Rouner, Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Philosophical
Theology; Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Boston
University
  e.. Michael J. Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University
  f.. James B. Stewart, Editor-at-large, SmartMoney magazine; Adjunct
Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
  g.. Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor
of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
  h.. Michael Walzer, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, N.J.
  i.. Roger Wilkins, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and
American Culture, George Mason University
  j.. Alan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science; Director of the Boisi
Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College

For more information, visit the symposium Web site at
www.depauw.edu/univ/pol_ed_symp or e-mail Robert E. Calvert, symposium
coordinator, at rcalvert@depauw.edu.

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