Lumen Christi Institute | A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien @LumenChristiInt | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
A conversation with George Dennis O'Brien (University of Rochester) and Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University). This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event is cosponsored by Commonweal Magazine, and the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University.
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John F. Kennedy once quipped that a Catholic would be president of the United States before a Catholic would be president of Harvard. As the Catholic president of two secular universities, Dennis O’Brien was a trailblazer. In this interview, O’Brien discusses his long career in higher education as a Catholic, a philosopher, and an administrator, with reflections on the past, present, and future of American higher education.
O’Brien was raised in a south-side Chicago parish in the 1930s and 1940s. Educated at Yale, he came to the University of Chicago to write a PhD on Hegel. He was appointed president of Bucknell in 1976 and the University of Rochester in 1984. O’Brien’s varied career offers a fascinating window onto the history of American higher education in the twentieth century. Philosopher and fellow Hegelian Mark Alznauer will conduct this interview, focusing on higher education both Catholic and secular, as well as O’Brien’s experiences growing up in Chicago and attending the University of Chicago.
For more information about this event, see our website: lumenchristi.org/event/2020/11/a-catholic-life-in-secular-university-a-conversation-with-george-dennis-obrien-mark-alznauer-g-dennis-obrien
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To support similar programming, we encourage you to donate to the Lumen Christi Institute at lumenchristi.org/donate
A conversation with George Dennis O'Brien (University of Rochester) and Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University). This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event is cosponsored by Commonweal Magazine, and the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University.
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John F. Kennedy once quipped that a Catholic would be president of the United States before a Catholic would be president of Harvard. As the Catholic president of two secular universities, Dennis O’Brien was a trailblazer. In this interview, O’Brien discusses his long career in higher education as a Catholic, a philosopher, and an administrator, with reflections on the past, present, and future of American higher education.
O’Brien was raised in a south-side Chicago parish in the 1930s and 1940s. Educated at Yale, he came to the University of Chicago to write a PhD on Hegel. He was appointed president of Bucknell in 1976 and the University of Rochester in 1984. O’Brien’s varied career offers a fascinating window onto the history of American higher education in the twentieth century. Philosopher and fellow Hegelian Mark Alznauer will conduct this interview, focusing on higher education both Catholic and secular, as well as O’Brien’s experiences growing up in Chicago and attending the University of Chicago.
For more information about this event, see our website: lumenchristi.org/event/2020/11/a-catholic-life-in-secular-university-a-conversation-with-george-dennis-obrien-mark-alznauer-g-dennis-obrien
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To support similar programming, we encourage you to donate to the Lumen Christi Institute at lumenchristi.org/donate
