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