Summer Issue 2007
From the Director:
The "Tragic Gap"
I recently had the opportunity to hear Parker Palmer (author of Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach) speak on “Holding the Tensions of Democracy.” He described “the tragic gap between what is and what could or should be.” “The tragedy,” he explained, “is that the gap will never be filled.”
Perhaps one reason community colleges have been called “democracy’s colleges” is our commitment to addressing this gap, whether it is between our individual potential and what we are able to achieve, or between what society should provide to encourage this potential and what it actually does provide.
Why do you think the gap is never filled?
If you'd like to share your thoughts on this, please email me at Barbara.viniar@cornell.edu.
Barbara Viniar, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Other articles in the Summer 2007 issue of Gravitas:
Announcing the EPA’s P3 (People, Prosperity, and the Planet) Award for Sustainability: A Student Design Competition
Community Colleges Encouraged to Apply
Why spend three days in the height of summer at ICCD's Leadership Issues conference? Comments from past program participants.
See what these community college presidents,
administrators, faculty and trustees have to say.
ICCD's Applied Research Grants are available for 2007-08.
