{"id":5786,"date":"2015-04-07T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:38:59","slug":"harry-boyte-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/07\/harry-boyte-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Boyte contends that universities should renew the democratic purpose of higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-1.26.22-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-07 at 1.26.22 PM\" width=\"152\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-1.26.22-PM.png 152w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-07-at-1.26.22-PM-150x61.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/>The question, &#8220;What are universities for?&#8221; elicited a number of responses in a recent article compiled by Zocalo Public Square and\u00a0published by TIME. <strong>Harry Boyte<\/strong>, Augsburg\u2019s Sabo Senior Fellow, argued that colleges and universities\u00a0should renew their democratic purpose, thereby highlighting\u00a0the important role\u00a0these institutions play\u00a0as public spaces for diverse interests and views to find common ground in a sharply divided society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3768082\/whats-wrong-with-our-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the TIME website<\/a> to learn more about Boyte&#8217;s perspective and those put forth by other leading scholars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question, &#8220;What are universities for?&#8221; elicited a number of responses in a recent article compiled by Zocalo Public Square and\u00a0published by TIME. Harry Boyte, Augsburg\u2019s Sabo Senior Fellow, argued that colleges and universities\u00a0should renew their democratic purpose, thereby highlighting\u00a0the important role\u00a0these institutions play\u00a0as public spaces for diverse interests and views to find common ground &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[614,801,1236,3616,3615],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-civic-engagement","tag-democracy","tag-harry-boyte","tag-higher-ed","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}