Imagining a University for the Common Good: Higher Education and Its Values Reading Group 🗓

This reading group, starting in early March, invites faculty to engage deeply with urgent questions about the purpose and future of higher education in times of intersecting global crises through critical engagement with the book Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good (by Richard Hil, Kristen Lyons, and Fern Thompsett; available with Pratt login through the Pratt Libraries!).

Central themes we will consider include:

  • How the foundational logics of colonialism continue to shape university structures, knowledge systems, and relationships today;
  • Understanding climate change, COVID-19, and systemic inequities not as external threats but as revealing the “glitch” in current systems, opening space for reimagining;
  • Moving from minor adjustments to radical transformation and exploring what it means to “hospice” failing systems while nurturing alternatives;
  • Examining concrete examples of decolonizing, democratizing, and regenerative approaches already emerging in educational contexts.

Join us in exploring what a university truly committed to the common good might look like!

We will meet weekly on every other Monday at 12:30pm starting March 9 and ending May 5. Faculty can also engage with the text and with other participants asynchronously through Perusall.

  • Session #1: Monday, March 9, 12:30pm–1:30pm—RSVP
  • Session #2: Monday, March 23, 12:30pm–1:30pm—RSVP
  • Session #3: Monday, April 6, 12:30pm–1:30pm—RSVP
  • Session #4: Monday, April 20, 12:30pm–1:30pm—RSVP
  • Session #5: Monday, May 5, 12:30pm–1:30pm—RSVP

Eligible part time faculty receive a $500 stipend for attending at least 4 sessions. More details about each session are below.

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2026 Summer Playground Institute: Inviting Time
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We would be delighted to have you join our 2026 Summer Playground Institute; a playful exploration of serious pedagogical topics within a community of creative and curious Pratt faculty. We gather at the end of the Spring semester before Summer break (a liminal space-time) to joyfully hold inspiring questions and works-in-progress with each other.
iteratio /i.te’ra:.ti.o/ issue 7: Call for Proposals
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This year, along with Curatorial Guest Editor Tim Cunningham (SLAS), Pratt's Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce a first ever themed issue of iteratio. We will be accepting proposals around the theme Pedagogy In Flux: Innovative and Inclusive Practices for a Changing Educational Landscape.

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