Johann Neem, professor of history at Western Washington University, will deliver the annual Kohlenberg-Towne lecture on “The Purpose of College in an Age of Uncertainty.” Prof. Neem’s most recent book is
What’s the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019); he is also the author of
Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (2017), and
Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (2008).