What Universities Owe Democracy: A Conversation with Ronald J. Daniels

Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that -- at a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are heading toward autocracy than at any time in generations -- it is critical for today's colleges and universities to re-establish their place in democracy.
During this event, President Daniels discussed his new book followed by an audience Q&A. The panel included Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, Graduate School Dean Suzanne Barbour, and Royster Distinguished Professor Tori Ekstrand, from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
This event was sponsored by The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill and its Royster Society of Fellows, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Program for Public Discourse, the Carolina Seminar Higher Education Working Group, and the Democracy Initiative within the Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good Strategic Plan.