The Harbour League
Presents
Diary of a Dean
Featuring
DR. HERB LONDON
President, the Hudson Institute
Trustee, The Harbour League
Thursday, November 4, 2010
6:30pm
The Harbour League
2800 Quarry Lake Drive, Suite 140
Baltimore, MD 21209
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Dr. Herbert London will address his years as a dean at New York University (NYU). He will discuss his personal path from professor and ombudsman to dean of a new experimental college. The period in question parallels a tumultuous era in higher education. Herb London's experiences placed him in the eye of the academic hurricane. Although there has been considerable debate about the content and nature of higher education in this overheated period, he attempts to maintain a balance between a traditional devotion to the canon of western civilization and emerging technologies and innovations that permit a flexible delivery of education.
Dr. London, through his own personal evolution, will also discuss the decline and revival in higher education an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. He has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal values toward relativism and ideological extremism. During the evening’s discussion he reflects on an awareness of what has been lost, but sees hope for a revival of traditional values as technological change and awareness of failure forces institutions to examine their premise. Herbert London will provide here fuel for fundamental redirection in American college and university affairs.
London will deal with concrete concerns, such as the collapse of classic book programs in the contemporary curriculum, the decline and even vigilante raids on opposition in campus publications, the collapse of moral judgment in favor of pure relativism, the transformation of many museums into storage houses of debris, and the confusion of coarse language with democratization. These developments lead the speaker to this discussion, for if the culture wars are over, the American people may be the losers.
Herbert I London
President, the Hudson Institute
Trustee, the Harbour League
Herbert I. London is president of the Hudson Institute, a world renown think-tank in Washington DC. He is professor emeritus and the former John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University. And he was responsible for creating the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 1972 and was its dean until 1992. This school was organized to promote the study of "great books" and classic texts.
In 1989, Dr. London was one of the Republican candidates for Mayor of New York City. In 1990 he was the Conservative Party Candidate for Governor of New York garnering more votes than any third party candidate in the state's history. In 1994 he was the Republican Party candidate for New York State Comptroller losing in a close election.
He is currently on the Hudson Institute Board of Trustees; the Board of Directors of the National Chamber Foundation; the Board of Directors of the International Transportation Systems; the Board of Trustees for BlackRock Funds, the Board of Advisors for Cerego LLC, the Board of Directors for InnoCentive; the Board of Governance for the American Jewish Congress; the Board of Advisors for Grantham University; the Board of Directors for the Harbour League; the Board of Directors for AIMS; the Editorial Advisory Board for the Edmund Burke Institute; the Board of Directors of the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License; the Board of Directors of the National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation, the Board of Trustees of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the Board of Advisors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Inc., the Editorial Advisory Board for the Texas Education Review, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City Cultural Affairs Commission, American History and Civics Advisory Board, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He formerly served on the Board of Governors at St. John's College and the Board of Overseers at the Center for Naval Analyses. He is an affiliated professor at the University of Haifa in Israel. And he is a member of the Union League Club.
Dr. London is a noted social critic whose work has appeared in every major newspaper and journal in the country including such diverse publications as Commentary, National Review, American Spectator, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Washington Times, New York Magazine, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Modern Age, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Orbis, Encounter, Forbes, and The New Criterion. He is the author and editor of twenty-two books (see enclosure) and two plays "My Most Embarrassing Moment" and "A Love That Cannot Speak Its Name."
In addition to Dr. London's television program, "Myths that Rule America," he created a 47 part C.B.S. series entitled "The American Character." He has been a guest lecturer on many major radio and television news programs and at colleges and universities and has appeared as co-host on the popular CNN program, "Crossfire." He is the former chairman of the National Association of Scholars, is the erstwhile editor of Academic Questions. Dr. London was Executive producer of "Rodney King Incident." He was formerly syndicated by Knight-Ridder and Bridge News. He is a contributing editor for St. Croix Review and American Arts Quarterly. Dr. London wrote a monthly newsletter called The London Letter and a nationally syndicated column for King Features.
Dr. London is listed in the Outstanding People of the 21st Century; Directory of Distinguished Americans; Who's Who in Education; Who's Who in the East; Men of Distinction; Who's Who in America, Kingston's National Registry of Who's Who, and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. He is a recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Aix-Marseille, 1983 and Grove City College, 1993. He has received a Presidential Citation from N.Y.U., is a recipient of the National Pro-Am Achievement Award, was the 1996 recipient of the Martin Luther King Award from the Congress of Racial Equality for Citizenship Achievement, was the 1997 recipient of the Jacques Maritain Society Award, was the first recipient of the Peter Shaw Award for his exemplary writing on higher education and American intellectual culture, was awarded the Templeton Honor Roll Award in 1997 as one of the nation's exemplary professors. In 2000, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, in 2001 the American Jewish Congress Award, and in 2002 the Liberty and Media Award.
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