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Scholarship of Excellence in Teaching Presents The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Democracy, Oct. 9

Category: College News

Published: Monday, October 5, 2026

The Scholarship of Excellence in Teaching, The Office of Academic Affairs, and The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

present

The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Democracy

A discussion of the book

What Universities Owe Democracy

Friday, Oct. 9, 2 to 4 p.m.

Remote, on Zoom: https://montgomerycollege.zoom.us/my/heatherbrucesatrom

Discussion led by Phillip Spector, co-author of What Universities Owe Democracy, president of the consultancy Talemi, LLC, and the former Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Johns Hopkins University

With Mary Bruce, Assistant Director of Public Programming at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

The SNF Agora Institute is a multi-disciplinary academic and public forum dedicated to strengthening global democracy by improving and expanding civic engagement and inclusive dialogue, and by supporting inquiry that leads to real-world change.

Questions? Contact Heather Satrom, Director of the Scholarship of Excellence in Teaching at Heather.Satrom@montgomerycollege.edu