The IDEAS seminar presents: Higher education's social contract
Please join us for a special event.
America's private universities have long operated under an implicit bargain: public subsidy and prestige in exchange for serving the common good. But that agreement is fraying. Join us for a conversation with the authors of Private Universities in the Public Interest exploring what it will take to reimagine—and renew—higher education's social contract for our time.
The Interdisciplinary Dialogue in Education for Aspiring Scholars (IDEAS) seminar, led by Professor Ari Kelman, provides a space for interdisciplinary dialogues on key intellectual issues and core questions in education from diverse perspectives.
Thursday, April 30
12 - 1pm
Graduate School of Education, Raikes Building, 4th Floor: Longview
507 Lasuen Mall, Stanford
Lunch provided until the event reaches capacity (75 registrants).
SPEAKERS
Ralph Richard Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Banks is the Founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, an initiative that aims to confront and counter the polarization that plagues American society through an analysis of contentious racial issues free from the orthodoxies of Left and Right. He teaches Constitutional Law, Family Law and a variety of courses related to race, law, and inequality.
Emily J. Levine
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Levine is an intellectual historian with interests in the relationship between higher education and democratic society and the politics of knowledge. She has advised Stanford leadership on free expression and antisemitism. Her latest book is Agreeing to Disagree: Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and the Modern American University to be published by Basic Books in 2027.
Mitchell Stevens
Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Stevens is an organizational sociologist with interests in educational sequences, lifelong learning, alternative educational forms, and the formal organization of knowledge. He convenes the Pathways Network, the Futures Project on Education and the Learning Society, and serves as Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity.
MODERATOR
Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Kelman's research focuses on the forms and practices of religious knowledge transmission. He holds a specific research interest in American Jewry. Kelman directs the Undergraduate Honors in Education Thesis Program at the GSE as well as other university roles.
