
As I reflected on the challenges we are facing today in campus and community discussions about race, sexual identity, gun control, and other issues, I recently reread Respect: An Exploration, by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot.
While I was president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, each year I selected a book and gave copies to faculty, staff, and administrators who wanted to read it. My purpose was to provide a common foundation for campus dialogue. One year we read Respect, which includes intimate and detailed portraits of a midwife, a pediatrician, a teacher, a photographer, a lawyer, and an Episcopal priest. In each narrative portrait, the author explores how the interviewees develop and practice respect through engagement in their profession.
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