2008-2009 Academic Year Lead Network
List of the Speakers & Titles of Their Talks for the Best Should Teach Lectures
Best Should Teach 2009
The Pedagogical Imagination: Teaching toward Possibility
Kris Gutiérrez, Provost’s Chair, School of Education
Best Should Teach 2008
Why the Best Should Teach: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility
Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of London
Best Should Teach 2007
Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished
University Professor of Humanities and Law,
College of Law, Florida International University
Best Should Teach 2006
The Role of Teaching in Countering Social Inequality
Pedro Noguera, Professor, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University & Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
Best Should Teach 2005
Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science (and a Lot of Other Subjects)
Carl Weiman, Professor, Physics
Best Should Teach 2004
The Less Teaching, the More Learning, and Other Lessons from the Radical Past
Martin Bickman, Professor, English, CU-Boulder
Best Should Teach 2003
"Twins Separated at Birth: the Reunion of the Sciences and the Humanities"
Patricia Limerick, Professor, History & Environmental Studies and Chair of the Board & Faculty Director for the Center of the American West
Best Should Teach 2002
A New Faculty for the New American Century:
Challenges and Opportunities
Orlando Taylor, Dean of the Graduate School, Howard University
Best Should Teach 2001
Teaching Science in the 21st Century
Margret Murnane, Professor, Physics
Best Should Teach 2000
Teaching Because Democracy Matters
Dr. Walter Parker, University of Washington
Best Should Teach 1999
Where Love & Need Are One: A New Day for Teaching
Eugene Rice, Director for the Forum on Faculty Roles & Rewards, American Association for Higher Education