Ben Wildavsky, author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (Princeton University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation (expected this year from Harvard Education Press), speaks tonight, Feb. 21, at 5 p.m. in the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library. Wildavsky is the third speaker in Duke’s series Re-imagining the Academy. The former education editor of U.S. News & World Report (and son of the renowned 20th century political scientist Aaron Wildavsky) will share insights about the future of American higher education. A reception and book signing will follow the talk.
The speaker series is sponsored by the Bass Society of Fellows. Co-sponsors of this lecture include the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Instructional Technology, Duke Libraries, the Office of Global Programs and Strategy, and the Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations.