Dear Ian,

               I am definitely up for the campaign to communicate to a wider 
non-academic public, influencers and decision-makers.  How do we begin?  Do 
we shoot off letters to Newspapers, journalists, politicians?  Should we 
formulate one or two standard letters which we can adapt for particular 
recipients and occasions?

                     Best wishes,

                             Nick
www.nick-maxwell.demon.co.uk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Glendinning" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Activities


> Happy New Year David, Roger (and fellow wise ones)
>
> I really would like us to pick up this project .... how to communicate
> to a wider non-academic public, influencers and decision-makers ... a
> proper "marketing communications campaign" .... who's up for it ?
>
> Let's evolve "scientific" education in the year of Darwin.
> (Did people see Dan Dennett's response to the 2009 Edge Question ....
> resources for improving the understanding of understanding, etc ...?)
>
> Ian
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, David M <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Roger
>>
>> Just got round to reading your paper, I very much enjoyed it.
>> It ties Nick's work in very well with criticisms by others of what seems 
>> to
>> be
>> the dominant approach to reason in our universities and society.
>>
>> The possibility of challenging this approach seem to me to be precisely
>> those you set out.I do wonder, however, how this criticism and the
>> alternative
>> to it may also be brought to a wider and less academic audience?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> David Morey
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mourad, Roger
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: Activities
>>
>> Dear Harvey et al: I look forward very much to reading your paper.  I 
>> have
>> attached something I completed earlier this year that is looking for a 
>> home.
>> A book I wrote 10+ years back, Implications of Postmodern Philosophy for 
>> the
>> Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education (Greenwood, 1997) sought to 
>> broaden
>> what counts as inquiry, thus my attraction to Nick's work and FoW.  -rog
>>
>>
>>
>> Roger Mourad, Ph.D., J.D.
>>
>> Director, Institutional Research Dept
>>
>> Washtenaw Community College
>>
>> telephone: 734-677-5328
>>
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>> fax: 734-477-8716
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>>
>>
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>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Group concerned that academia should seek and promote wisdom
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harvey Sarles
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:20 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Activities
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick and FoW,
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy you are asking these questions. I began to be interested and 
>> concerned
>> about the nature and future of the university some 15 years ago, and did 
>> a
>> good deal of investigating what the (our University of Minnesota - and
>> Cornell where I was a visiting professor earlier, and Sussex where I 
>> spent a
>> year even earlier).
>>
>>
>>
>> I wrote a good deal about it, especially moving from the deep debate set 
>> off
>> in U.S. by Allen Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind" in 1987 and the
>> arguments between the "Great Books"  (neo-conservative) proponents and 
>> those
>> who thought we should move knowledge into the wider "present" to include
>> women, authors from the entire world. This lasted some years (V.P. 
>> Cheney's
>> wife, Lynn Cheney is one of the foremost supporters). This quieted down, 
>> but
>> continues to simmer here, at least.
>>
>>
>>
>> Among various papers I drafted, the one which got published I will 
>> attach,
>> as they address Nick's questions and offer a "direction" and "Vision" for
>> the future university. Perhaps it may offer us ways to discuss the future 
>> of
>> education: "Vision: The Idea of a University in the Present Age" (bows to
>> Newman and Kierkegaard who thought about the University, bureaucracy, 
>> etc.)
>> This essay suggests some positive actions and directions. It has been
>> discussed at the U. of Minnesota, and might be "reaching its time" this
>> year??
>>
>>
>>
>> Also I wrote an essay: "The Bureaucratization of the University and the
>> Mind" which I think may be quite central to our thinking, and perhaps how 
>> to
>> get-out or beyond the present models and modes of thought - lots for
>> discussion - and maybe some action. And "The Crisis in Meaning and the
>> Meaning of the University." - ripe for discussion?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>>
>> Harvey
>>
>>
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