The fourth annual Presidential Symposium will take place on September 24-26, 2024, during the fourth week of classes. We invite speakers from Hofstra’s twelve academic colleges and schools to address the broad topic of “Higher Education in an Election Year” from multiple disciplinary, scholarly, and practitioner perspectives.

The 2024 elections will be highly consequential for leadership, policy making, and higher education, and civil dialogue about topics in each area is essential in academe. Of the many subjects to address, the following are of particular interest for this symposium:

• Free speech and contentious policy topics
• News coverage of elections (candidates, campaigns, policy issues)
• Policy debates on economy, health care, medicine, nursing
• Public resources for colleges and universities (student funding, research support)
• Role of higher education in the 21st century (information literacy, addressing artificial intelligence, etc.)
• Voting and civic engagement