Rotman Annual Fall Lecture Series featuring Dr. Jennifer Simpson

The Rotman Institute of Philosophy organizes a public lecture series annually and this year's theme is Connecting Research to Public Good.

The Public Good and higher education are traversing constantly-shifting political, economic, and social terrain.
What role do we have — as academic researchers, teachers, students, leaders of research centers and institutes, and members of our communities and society — to connect our work to the Public Good? How can we best attend to the needs and interests of communities and society? And how ought we envision the Public Good and the role of higher education within it?

The Public Demands of a University Education

This lecture will focus on the purposes of a university education as related to the public good. The question of students’ capacities following graduation is a timely and relevant issue, and under much debate. This talk will consider multiple views and will also offer a vision that speaks to the world in which we live.

SPEAKER BIO:

Jennifer Simpson is a Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University. She served as the chair of the university renaming committee at TMU from 2021-2022. She has over 20 years of teaching experience and has served in multiple senior leadership roles including that of Dean and Provost. Her work as a leader, researcher, author, and teacher has for three decades focused on the challenges of equity and the obligations of universities to the public good.