{"id":1776,"date":"2025-08-29T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1776"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:05:20","slug":"the-crisis-in-american-higher-education-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/event\/the-crisis-in-american-higher-education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis in American Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Furman Homecoming Event<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know of no other people who have founded so many schools or such efficient ones\u2026\u201d (<em>Democracy in America, <\/em>Vol 1, Pt 1, Ch 5).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><u>Elizabeth Davis (Furman University)<\/u><\/h6>\n<p>Elizabeth Davis became Furman University\u2019s 12th President on July 1, 2014. Before coming to Furman, she spent 22 years at Baylor University in Texas, where she was a member of the accounting faculty and later held the position of Executive Vice President and Provost. Before beginning her higher education career, she spent three years as an auditor at Arthur Andersen &amp; Co. in New Orleans. Davis earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Baylor University and her PhD from Duke University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><u>Ben Sasse (The Hamilton School, University of Florida)<\/u><\/h6>\n<p>Senator Ben Sasse is president emeritus and professor at the University of Florida. He earned his BA at Harvard, MA at St. John\u2019s College, and PhD at Yale University. His Ph.D. dissertation won both the Egleston and Theron Rockwell Field best dissertation prizes. Sasse taught at Yale University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Midland University (in his hometown of Fremont, Nebraska). He served as an assistant secretary in the\u00a0U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0in the\u00a0George W. Bush administration before being named Midland University\u2019s 15<sup>th<\/sup> president in 2010. Sasse was elected to the United States Senate in 2014 and again in 2020. He was named the 13<sup>th<\/sup> president of the University of Florida in 2023. Sasse is the author of two <em>New York Times<\/em>\u202fnational best-selling books: <em>The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis\u2014and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance<\/em> (2017) and <em>Them: Why We Hate Each Other\u2014and How to Heal<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><u>John Tomasi (Heterodox Academy)<\/u><\/h6>\n<p>John Tomasi is a political philosopher and the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy (HxA). Prior to joining HxA, Tomasi held the position of Romeo Elton 1843 Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University. He was educated at Colby College (BA), the University of Arizona (MA), and Oxford University (B. Phil., D. Phil.). A writer, speaker, and podcaster, his most recent book is <em>The Individualists:\u00a0Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism <\/em>(2024). He is also the author of <em>Free Market Fairness<\/em> (2013) and <em>Liberalism Beyond Justice:\u00a0Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory <\/em>(2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Homecoming Event &nbsp; \u201cI know of no other people who have founded so many schools or such efficient ones\u2026\u201d (Democracy in America, Vol 1, Pt 1, Ch 5). &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":1724,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1776","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1776\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}