<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(103,78,167)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">An Ethics Institute colloquy with Dr. Doug Selwyn and Dr. Jan Maher</span></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a83f0816-7fff-6284-c36a-3cccad4d75bb"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, April 27, 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institute for Ethics in Public Life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Noon over Zoom: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/36NA7A4" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://bit.ly/36NA7A4</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Doug Selwyn has just published </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Center of All Possibilities: Transforming Education for our Children’s Future</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Peter Lang, 2022). An Institute senior scholar and former member of SUNY Plattsburgh’s education faculty, Selwyn has assembled essays by and interviews of 20 educators and activists on the theme of ways we might best educate our next generations of children. Selwyn asserts “one of the major challenges and responsibilities of any society is to educate the next generation so that the society can continue to sustain itself and, hopefully, enable all its members to live healthy and rewarding lives. There has rarely been agreement about what education would most serve the younger generation, and there has been contention around many issues related to it: who should be educated, who should teach and what requirements should attach to that, how should the students (and system) be evaluated, who should pay for this education, what should be part of that educational sequence, who should make those decisions, and on what basis.” He argues “we are no closer to resolving those questions today than we were one hundred years ago, and with the recent right wing push to ban books, to limit the teaching of an honest accounting of the country’s history, and the misguided attack on critical race theory, education wars are closer to culture wars than they have been in a long time. What is most clear, however, is that we can’t afford to go back to “normal,” to how things were before the pandemic, because we were failing to educate so many of our children and because we are facing crises that will not wait for us to resolve our issues.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Noted author and Institute senior scholar Dr. Jan Maher, who has contributed a chapter to </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Center of All Possibilities</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">writes, “We are leaving our children and their children to face a world of climate change, gun violence, pandemics, political instability, a dizzying rate of technological change, on the precipice of losing our democratic institutions.” She asks, “What dispositions will serve them as they navigate the uncertainty we are bequeathing them? Who should help them to develop and learn? And can we find our way back to be among the world’s strongest democracies as we confront this future?”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colloquies at the Ethics Institute are open to all members of the SUNY Plattsburgh community.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life at <a href="mailto:slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu">slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Institute for Ethics in Public Life is a program of SUNY Plattsburgh with additional support made possible through generous gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(103,78,167)"></div></div>