Lecture by Prof. John SEXTON (Moderator: Prof. QI Ye, Institute for Public Policy)
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Dialogue with Prof. Wei SHYY, President of HKUST
4:30 - 5:00 pm
Question and Answer Session
Abstract of the lecture
Prof. John Sexton’s latest book, Standing for Reason: the University in a Dogmatic Age, has been recently published by Yale University Press and its Chinese translation is forthcoming before the end of 2019. The lecture will present and discuss the top challenges facing American universities as Prof. Sexton observed, articulated and analyzed in his new book: dogmatism, unilateralism, and meaningful access to education. He envisions that American universities as engines of knowledge and American university leaders as stewards of thought must embrace and pursue certain policies. These policies will be required to uphold the university’s unique role as “a guardian of civil debate, nuanced complexity, and global intercultural understanding in a world ungently in need of all three.” He will also offer an insight for university students as they seek to “change the world” to apply their value systems with a dose of wisdom “in the Confucian ever-expanding circles of human relatedness.”
About the speaker
Prof. John Sexton is President Emeritus of New York University, the Dean Emeritus of NYU Law School, and the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law. During 2001 to 2016, he elevated NYU to become a top research university and the first global network university, including portal campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. He is past Board Chair of the American Council on Education, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, the New York Academy of Sciences, and past President of the Association of American Law Schools. He served also as the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Chair of the Federal Reserve Systems Council of Chairs. He was named as an “Outstanding High School Debate Coach of the Last 50 Years" for work he did during his earlier career. In 2014, his book Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game was a New York Times best seller.
For attendees’ attention
Online registration is closed. Walk-ins are welcome while admission will be subject to the availability of seats at the venue.
Light refreshments will be served from 5:00 to 5:30 pm.
