Ruth J. Simmons, a esteemed higher education leader, discusses the unprecedented challenges to higher education’s mission with Anthony Bogues, a renowned scholar of political and cultural theory in the Caribbean and Africa.
Introduced by Swarthmore College President Valerie Smith and moderated by Farid Azfar, Associate Professor of History.
Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is a President’s Distinguished Fellow at Rice University and Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard. She previously served as President of Prairie View A&M University, President of Brown University, and President of Smith College.
Dr. Anthony Bogues is Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University.
The event is free and open to the public; it is also available for livestream here.
Presented by the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, series on Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts, and the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Slavery and Justice at Brown University.
Members of the Tri-College community can RSVP here for an informal breakfast meeting with Dr. Simmons and Dr. Bogues on April 15 at 9 am on campus.
