Fall 2021 Welcome and Discussion: Revisiting Purpose and Progress in Graduate Study

An Online Discussion for Current CCT students
Thursday, September 2
5:00-6:00pm ET in Zoom.

Please RSVP here to receive the link to join the meeting by Zoom a few days in advance of the event.

All current, incoming, and just-graduated (spring 2021) CCT students are invited to join this OPTIONAL online discussion, which will involve a dialogue-oriented activity, using the format of the Focused Conversation, to help us think about the topic of “Revisiting Purpose and Progress in Graduate Study”.

In this discussion on “Times of Transition: Revisiting Purpose, Practice, and Progress during Graduate Study”, we reflect on what it means to us to continue a study of critical and creative thinking and extend it beyond the formal program. Many of us in the CCT community have noticed the importance of reflection on our paths, and no less in the time of recent profound global concerns such as climate change and pandemic, progress and polarization across current political and social movements, the shifting nature of workplaces and our professional employment, supporting children and family, and challenges of education across many levels. As scholars in an interdisciplinary graduate program focused on thinking, how do we connect the transitions in our own lives with those going on elsewhere in the world? How can we best direct our study to both develop our own capacities and support critical and creative thinking in others? Where have we come from, and where do we go from here?