I’m still in Ecuador, using a public terminal with a slow connection. So, quickly… Today’s Minnesota Daily posted a commentary by Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Minnesota, on universities as places and spaces for imagination. He writes: I believe we must invite more of our students [...]
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University of St. Thomas needs a new president
10/11/2007
A little side commentary on the University of St. Thomas, where I got my Master of International Management degree. In recent years, the school has made decisions to bring in radical extremist speakers such as Ann Coulter (and physically silence any students with challenging questions) and ban more-progressive speakers such as Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu [...]
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University of St. Thomas still needs a new president
Grant Smith, who wrote the brilliant essay challenging University of St. Thomas president Dennis Dease to embrace the values it taught in its now defunct Master of International Management program, dropped me a note stating that he received a reply from the school: I am beginning to agree with your blog posting: University of St. [...]