Recent visits to CU-Boulder by Jane Goodall, ice cream moguls Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, author Azar Nafisi and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz would alone have made for a vivid reminder that universities enable learning partly by convening people for the provocative exchange of ideas.
The campus scheduled or hosted events this fall that included Jane Goodall, Bernie Sanders, the Dalai Lama (who had to cancel due to health reasons) and, of course, the third national Republican debate.