Join us on January 24th, 2025 at 3pm in Cohen Hall room 402 for a talk with Harry Brighouse from the University of Wisconsin-Madison titled "Instructional Quality: The Most Urgent and Neglected Equity Issue on Campus".

Harry Brighouse, Mildred Fish Harnack Professor of Philosophy and Carol Dickson Bascom Professor of the Humanities

Abstract: Students from working class and poor communities deal with numerous indignities on college campuses. Among these is that, on most college campuses, instructional quality is considerably lower than it could easily be. And, while suboptimal instruction harms the learning of all students, students from working class and poor communities are, on average, less well-resourced to compensate, putting them at greater risk than other students of academic failure and other harms.  Suboptimal instruction is one of the most serious equity issues on campus, an inequity in which faculty are seriously implicated. I'll suggest systemic reforms that would address the inequity, and argue that even without these reforms individual faculty members have a moral obligation to take instruction much more seriously than most currently do.