BILL BARKER: PRESIDENTS' DAY CELEBRATION--MAN AND LEGACY

Thursday, February 18, 2021
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Online
Students

In times of great strife, Americans have often looked to our nations founding fathers for guidance. In doing so, we inevitably address the paradoxes they posed. The same Thomas Jefferson who penned the idea that all men are created equal in our Declaration of Independence, is the same founder who owned hundreds of slaves through the course of his life. How could this be, and what are the lessons to us today? To help us unpack these and other historically loaded questions, the Hauenstein Center, along with our partners at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Library, welcomes Monticellos William Barker back to Grand Rapids. Widely regarded as the nations foremost Thomas Jefferson interpreter, Barker joins us for a celebration of Presidents' Day and for a conversation that plumbs our difficult past.

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The Peter C. Cook Leadership Academy is a leadership development program for 60+ undergraduate and graduate students during the academic year. The program is co-curricular and cross-disciplinary putting our student fellow candidates through a rigorous curriculum of training, assessment, and practice designed to instill leadership excellence. Candidates are admitted to the Cook Leadership Academy for one or more years. Each applicant must meet the criteria of high academic achievement, active involvement in the campus community, dedication to the public good, a passion to lead, and a commitment to personal growth.

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