Scholarly Values and Community Engagement: A University-Wide Conversation

UCI's campuswide theme for this academic year is ‘The Scholarly Values.’ This session highlights how community engagement at UC Irvine reflects and shapes our core scholarly values. Through a conversation among faculty leading diverse engagement efforts, we aim to surface deeper questions about what unites us as a university, what we stand for, and how we can strengthen our role in public life—especially at a time when trust in higher education is under strain.

Moderators:

• Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education and Dean Emeritus of the School of Education
• Valerie Jenness, Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

Panel:

• Keramet Reiter, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Director of LIFTED
• Julia Lupton, Distinguished Professor of English and the co-Director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center
• Andres Bustamente, Associate Professor of Education and Faculty Director of OCEAN