Boyte, the author of nine books and more than 100 articles, will discuss the need for higher education to lead the movement in rethinking the nature of education, work, and the meaning of citizenship. Boyte is a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. In 2011-12, he was National Coordinator of the American Commonwealth Partnership, a coalition of colleges and universities promoting the idea of higher education as a public good.

 

Boyte is one of several guest speakers for the 2014 Academy for Civic Professionalism, a program of the Community and Civic Engagement Initiative in the College of Liberal Arts. The Academy is partially funded by the Teagle Foundation and is organized by Associate Dean Giovanna Summerfield and Dr. Brigitta Brunner, both in the College of Liberal Arts and Imagining America Research Fellows. For more information, contact Dr. Summerfield (summegi@auburn.edu).