Rhetoric Society of America: Land Grant Universities and Rhetoric
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The Land Grant Mission: To Boldly Go Where Rhetoricians Stopped Going 100 Years Ago: Off Campus! A Pecha Kucha for RSA 2012 David Beard University of Minnesota Duluth
Transcript of Rhetoric Society of America: Land Grant Universities and Rhetoric
The Land Grant Mission:
To Boldly Go Where Rhetoricians Stopped Going 100 Years Ago:
Off Campus!A Pecha Kucha for RSA
2012David Beard
University of Minnesota Duluth
Maria Sanford
Maria Sanford
Memorialized
Public Lectures
Wisconsin Idea
“The boundaries
of the University are the
boundaries of the state.”
Extension Service
4H
4H and Extension
4H Impact
1 in 7 adults is a
former member of 4H / 60 million
alumni
6.5 million youth
3,500 staff, 538,000
volunteers
4H Pledge
4H and
Rhetorical Education
4H and
Semi-Rhetorical Education
4H and Civic
Education
CASE STUDYCommunication and Civics without
Rhetoric
CASE STUDY
CASE STUDY
CASE STUDY:
UnAmerican!
CASE STUDY
Opportunity for Rhetoric lost!
Conclusion
The Land Grant created
the Basic Course in Writing and/or Speech.
But it created more.
Conclusion
Imagine current ad hoc work in civic engagement and
community literacy funneled through 6,500,000 youth
annually.
Conclusion
Let’s not just recover the land grant – let’s go deeper.
The borders of rhetoric are the borders not of the campus, but of the state!
