Quaker Leadings in Higher Education Series

Here are links to our past Quaker Leadings in Higher Education events. (For previous academic years, see our 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23 archive pages.)

Index

April 30, 2024:

Students Speak: The Spiritual and Moral Basis for Valiant Accountability on our Campuses

As we prepare for our annual FAHE gathering – Valiant for the Truth – June 3-6 at Malone University, this event gave us the chance to hear the voices of students from communities too rarely heard on our campuses.

Dove John facilitated a conversation among our student panel around these queries

  • What are the moral, spiritual supports for your witness? 
  • To what extent have those supports come from your college? 
  • In what ways do moral supports for truth telling need strengthening on our campuses?

Moderator Bio:

In 1983 Esther “Little Dove” John walked solo across the country to the United Nations for the cause of world peace, social justice and environmental protection.  She started a peace academy, worked as a mental health counselor and started an organization that places musicians in hospitals to perform at bedside for patients.  In 1987 she participated in the US-Soviet Peace Walk from Leningrad to Moscow with 200 Americans and 200 Soviet citizens. She worked in radio as a public affairs director, taught education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Antioch University Seattle and taught psychology at Seattle Central Community College.  She was site manager of Northwest Indian College at Muckleshoot and now is writing the memoirs of her 1983 peace walk.

Here is a link to the poster for this event.

Here are the students’ bios and the structure of this event.

Here is a link to a video of this event.

February 26, 2024:

Becoming Valiant for the Truth: Confronting Empire, Structural Racism, Classism and Gender Discrimination

How can we support one another (how can FAHE support you?) in overcoming the barriers in our wider higher education community to speaking the truth and holding ourselves and our institutions accountable for legacies of complicity in colonization and identity discrimination? What lessons can we draw from a history in which sincerely felt discernment proved false or was silenced by power or convenience?

Presenters:

Trayce N. Peterson

MA student/instructor
Human Rights Practice
University of Arizona

tom kunesh

Tennessee Ancient Sites Conservancy
University of Minnesota
Starr King School for the Ministry

Donn Weinholtz

Prof. Emeritus Educational Leadership
University of Hartford

Moderator:  

Stephen Potthoff

Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Peace Studies
Wilmington College

Here is a link to the flyer for this event.

Here is a link to a video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.