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The summary from the first conversation "Carnegie Mellon Culture" will be
posted on the Eberly Center web page on Monday, October 16
www.cmu.edu/provost/teaching/center.html

Wednesay, October 18, Wright Room, University Center OR
Thursday, October 19, Baker Hall 129

What should the goals of higher education curricula be in a research
university like Carnegie Mellon?

For a number of reasons over the past decade American universities and
colleges have been re-examining our individual and collective raison-d knowledge, skills, global understanding,
interdisciplinarity, ethics, environmental awareness, scientific literacy ?
and they seem to continually increase.

In this conversation we will begin by focusing on the following questions:
* What is the purpose of higher education? How has it changed from fifty
years ago?
* When we prepare students to go out into the world, what are we preparing
them to be able to do?
* Should higher education serve society or should it center on some ideal
vision of truth? Should it prepare people for the marketplace or create
citizens who can make objective judgments based on evidence?
* Higher education has benefited from business funding ? would we benefit
from business helping us establish curricula? Should we allow market forces
to influence what it is we do in higher education?