Student-led discussion about the role of higher education
March 21, 2013
There will be a student-facilitated discussion about the role of higher education
in society, Wednesday March 27 at 5:30 p.m. in Wood Center rooms C/D. Download and
post the promotional flier (pdf).
How should higher education shape our society? A job without a college degree is hard
to come by in this new economy and the United States is facing serious challenges
on a number of fronts, including producing enough highly-skilled graduates to compete
with China and India. Many hard working Americans are slipping out of the middle class
and growing numbers of poor teens never get a fair chance at a good future in the
first place.
Sponsored by the UAF Department of Sociology and the 2013 Capstone Seminar students,
Students of Change club, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and the National Issues
Forums Institute.