Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,
As opening keynote speaker of the Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences (the largest gathering in Canada of scholars in
these fields), the Governor General David Johnston called on universities to
"democratize knowledge." A
video of his speech (and a panel on community-engaged teaching, research and
service that followed it) can be viewed at http://bit.ly/KI1p6X.
Here's a link to the text of his speech:
In his speech, the Governor General said "Today, I
want to talk about a dream of mine - a true democracy of knowledge. What exactly is it? To democratize something is to make it
accessible to everyone. A democracy of knowledge, therefore, deepens and
broadens knowledge so that it’s available to all citizens in a given society
and, beyond them, to all societies throughout the world. When I speak of
knowledge, I speak about something specific. Knowledge is the next-to-highest
state on the progressive spectrum that moves from data through information and
knowledge to wisdom — with wisdom being the ultimate plateau from which
knowledge is applied to govern all aspects of a society."
The Governor General began his professional career as an
assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 1966, moving
to the Law Faculty at the University of Toronto in 1968. He became dean of the
Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario in 1974. In 1979, he was
named principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, and in July 1994, he
returned to the McGill Faculty of Law as a full-time professor.
In June 1999, he became the fifth president of the
University of Waterloo, a position he held until being appointed Governor
General in July 2010.
Thanks,
Rahma Osman
CCPH Program Assistant
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