The Role of the University: How can universities best prepare responsible and activist citizens?

Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2007

About the discussion

“The more there is suffering, then the more natural their sufferings appear. Who wants to prevent the fishes from getting wet? And the suffering themselves share this callousness towards themselves and are lacking kindness towards themselves. It is terrible that human beings so easily put up with existing conditions, not only with the suffering of strangers but also with their own. All those who have thought about the bad state of things refuse to appeal to the compassion of one group of people for another. But the compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world’s one hope.” – From Bertolt Brecht The World’s One Hope

Guest: Lance Evoy is coordinator of Concordia University’s Institute in Management and Community Development. The Institute was established to provide a place for those in the community sector to share their work and resources with others and build new skills to better work with citizens developing programs responsive to the changing needs of their communities.

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