Higher Education in the Age of Woke with Peter Wood

12800 Lake Shore Drive,Mequon WI 53097

05 May, 2022

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Conformity, Resentment, and Trivialization: Higher Education in the Age of Woke Join Peter Wood at the Robert W. Plaster Center Collaboratorium for a thought-provoking presentation about higher education in the age of "woke". Reception begins at 5:00 PM. Presentation begins at 6:00 PM. Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. A former professor of anthropology and college provost, he is the author of Wrath: America Enraged (October 2021) and 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project (November 2020). He is also the author of several other books about American culture, including Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003); A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007); Diversity Rules (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Questions. In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom.