Educating for Freedom

This panel focuses on the role of higher education in the defense and propagation of liberty and democracy in the United States and around the world. What does it mean to bear the responsibility of democratic citizenship? How can colleges and universities today better prepare students to participate in our common civic life? What ills affect a democratic society when its people are no longer engaged, dedicated citizens, and how can America avoid this fate?

Moderator: Joshua Dunn, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute of American Civics, University of Tennessee–Knoxville.

Panelists: Pano Kanelos, President, University of Austin; Jeffrey Flier, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine, and former dean, Harvard Medical School; and Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland, and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.