Brown Bag Lunches at WSU-Pullman
During each semester on the Pullman campus, there
will be several brown bag discussions. All are free and open to
any who wish to attend.
April 8 @ 12noon, CUE
512
Jeanette Garceau, English
The call for ‘Intellectual
Diversity’ is well-organized (and no doubt well-funded), and is growing at
universities across the country. But is ‘Intellectual Diversity’ what it claims
to be, a concern for a ‘diversity’ of ideas, or might it be a rhetorical
strategy, using the term ‘diversity’ in a way that is similar to
‘discrimination’ as it is used to describe affirmative action programs by those
wishing to do away with affirmative action. My goal in this presentation will be
to review the university’s goal of critical thinking as a student outcome, to
examine assumptions and values behind that goal, and to consider how recognition
and broader promotion of critical thinking could be a positive response to this
challenge for ‘intellectual diversity.’
