Word: citizenship
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...past half century, American colleges and universities have shared in a revolution, serving as both the emblem and the engine of the expansion of equality, citizenship, and opportunity?...
...symbol of students’ singular role in this community of scholars. With his criticism, Petersen deliberately shunned this historic role—he is only the second student known to have spoken at a Harvard presidential installation—and implicitly rejected the mutual responsibility of the student citizenship he discussed. Some would argue that the installation was exactly the forum for “free inquiry and open debate” that Petersen described. But the hostile criticism that he used in his speech only served to chill future prospects for such engagement: the ceremony...
...civil society] is some model of cosmopolitan democracy,” Livesey writes in an e-mail. “The dominant version of this is a Rawlsian rights-based model of representative democracy, but I am working on a republican model organized around a more substantive version of citizenship...
...This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must end now!” Petersen said, his voice rising with each phrase. His declaration was greeted with scattered hoots and applause...
...President Drew Gilpin Faust’s installation ceremony on Friday, Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 bust out the populist rhetoric, insisting that, “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must...