The role of the university in this province's future

Contributors
Creator: MacDonald, David S. A.
Date Recorded
1985-02-15
Date Digitized
2024
Genre
Event
Rights
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Physical Location
Original cassette held by UPEI Archives and Special Collections
Duration
01:43:21
Member of
UPEI Archives Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
00:00 Introduction

01:30 Introduction from Don Gillis

07:00 MacDonald begins speaking

12:00 Discussion of predestination

14:00 Discussion of MacDonald's childhood in Charlottetown

16:00 Discussion of figures who have influenced MacDonald

19:00 Portion of lecture given in French

20:00 End of portion in French; discussion of three forms of vocation

20:30 Discussion of MacDonald's experiences outside PEI

24:30 Discussion of islander's "preoccupation with government"

26:30 Discussion of oikos

30:00 Discussion of a fundamental contradiction within UPEI

35:00 Discussion of responsibility in the university community

39:00 Discussion of making a university community viable in the search for truth and the liberation of human beings

41:30 Discussion of fundamental questions of moral choice

44:30 Discussion of the search for community in a university

46:00 Discussion of the human condition and the human spirit, liberation

49:30 Beginning of question period

50:00 Inaudible question

51:00 Answer regarding a double standard among the president and the faculty with regards to tenure

53:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding tenure

54:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding relationship between the university and the community

57:30 Inaudible question

58:30 Answer regarding lack of tenure

01:00:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding in the purpose of university education

01:01:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding the totality of body and spirit

01:07:00 Question regarding the relationship between the university and the community

01:10:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding equal representation of men and women in the university

01:12:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding the need for the university and the president to develop an open sense of communication

01:14:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding tenure

01:16:00 Question regarding misperceptions of tenure

01:17:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding the position of students

01:20:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding democracy

01:23:00 Further question regarding tenure

01:24:30 Inaudible question

01:26:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding the exercise of power

01:28:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding the place of women in universities

01:30:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding the relationship of the president to the faculty

01:34:30 Inaudible question; answer regarding the development of the university

01:40:00 End of seminar