New Voices and New Venues: Organizing Against the Assault on Democratic Principles
Dr.
Basil Smikle Jr. is a Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Public
Policy Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter
College. He also lectures at Columbia University in the School of
International and Public Affairs and Teachers College. With over 15
years in higher education and 25 years of a career dedicated to public
service, Basil regularly shares insights on electoral politics,
governance, and public policy on national media outlets such as MSNBC,
CNN, and Bloomberg TV. He holds a PhD in Politics and Education and an
MPA from Columbia University and received a Bachelor of Science from
Cornell University. Previously, Basil served as the Distinguished
Lecturer of Politics and Public Policy at the City University of New
York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.
Milton Konvitz was a
founding faculty member in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations
and taught from 1946 until his retirement in 1973. He was also a
professor in Cornell's Law School and was widely considered an authority
on constitutional and labor law, and civil and human rights. Konvitz is
perhaps best known for his American Ideals course, which he taught to
more than 8,000 Cornell students over the course of his career, never
giving the same lecture twice. "I saw the U.S. Constitution as it has
been interpreted as a magnificent depository of our ideals, both
individual and social," he said. His course exposed students to the
great intellectual thinkers and philosophers throughout history whose
writings had shaped those ideals.
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