PAIDEIA TIMES aims to keep America’s college and university trustees informed. To their email inbox, it will deliver a comprehensive, readable summary of the news affecting the institutions they are entrusted to govern.

Coupled with it is a web site focused on the history and traditions of higher education: Emergent Orders in Higher Education. It will provide ready access to the reflections of such authorities on the purpose and governance of higher education institutions as John Henry Newman (The Idea of a University), Harold Berman (Law and Revolution), Jaroslav Pelikan (The Idea of the University - A Rexamination) and Henry Rosovsky (The University: An Owner's Manual).

Through the lens of such reflections, Paideia Times will examine the effect the myriad of events and contentious issues now buffeting America’s universities have on:

• the Purpose of higher education institutions;
• the Governance structure best suited to fulfill such  Purpose;
• the Public Trust in such Purpose and Governance; and
• the External Orders in the society that then affect such   Purpose, Governance and Public Trust.
  

In the years since they were founded, America’s higher education institutions have grown dramatically in size and ambition, and thus their impact on American culture.  As the soul of that culture, to serve them is not a challenge to shirk. ■