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Caption: The emblem of Dædalus, a maze seen from above, symbolizes the aspiration of its founders to “lift each of us above his cell in the labyrinth of learning in order that he may see the entire structure as if from above, where each separate part loses its comfortable separateness.”
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the MIT Press recently announced that
Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy, will now be an open-access publication. The MIT Press has published
Dædalus on behalf of the academy since 2003. Years of volumes and hundreds of essays previously behind a paywall have been ungated and made freely available.
I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at
The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week.
Your ideas on how higher ed can help repair American democracy.
Last week I dug into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report “
Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century” and asked how you thought higher ed could contribute. This week I’ll share some of the comments and resources you sent me.
Comments first, and for starters, the importance of science education as civic education. In the last newsletter, I quoted one of the co-chairs of the report, Danielle Allen, noting the paucity of federal spending on civic education compared with STEM in elementary and secondary schools. Several folks from the sciences found fault in that comparison, notably Jay Labov, a 23-year veteran of the science-education program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and before that, a
Luther College hosts lecture on xenophobia by historian Erika Lee
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January 20, 2021
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21 award-winning author and historian, Erika Lee, will present the virtual lecture Xenophobia in America, describing America s long history of prejudice against people from other countries. The event is free and open to the public. The link to attend can be found on luther.edu/events.
Drawing on her extensive experience as a scholar of immigration history, Lee will offer reflections and facilitate a discussion on American xenophobia: its historical origins, its political power and persistence, and its threat to a more just and inclusive social order. Her conversation partners will include Todd Green, Luther College associate professor of religion and interim director of the Center for Ethics and Public Engagement; Evelyn Montoya, a Luther sophomore and the current president of Luther s student organization Latines Unides; and Maria Leitz, co-founder of Collective
Northwestern Now
‘For My People’ was written by Northwestern alumna Margaret Walker Alexander
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Northwestern English professor Natasha Trethewey, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007, introduced a special collaborative remix of the seminal poem “For My People,” a civil rights anthem written in 1937 by Northwestern alumna Margaret Walker Alexander.
A collaboration between PBS American Portrait and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Arts, of which Trethewey is co-chair, the project invited Americans to submit their own lines inspired by “For My People.” The Academy enlisted members including John Lithgow, Yo-Yo Ma, Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates to record parts of the poem.