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The Truth-Seeking Mission of the University

The Truth-Seeking Mission of the University

April 10, 2024

Dr. Robert P. George holds Princeton’s celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is the Founder and Director of the University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

In his lecture at the Institute of American Civics, Dr. George will discuss the vital importance of colleges and universities being sites of free and open discussion of the most important questions of human life. He will also address concrete measures universities can take to strengthen and improve their position as models for civil and robust discourse. This lecture is supported by the Office of the Provost.

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