Land O'Lakes and its Legacy: Lecture by John T. McGreevy

John T. McGreevy, professor of history and I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, delivers a talk on the history and impact of the Land O’Lakes Statement (September 5, 2017). Introductions by Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. View part 2 of this event, a panel discussion with five university presidents, here: https://youtu.be/DiLiZBEKl4k -- In summer 1967, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame as well as of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, invited a group of Catholic university administrators, leaders of religious communities, bishops, and scholars to Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin, to discuss the past, present, and future of Catholic higher education. The document they produced, known as the Land O'Lakes Statement, sought to chart a new course for American Catholic higher education. The Land O'Lakes Statement was one of four reports produced out of meetings held in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia in advance of the 1968 General Assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. There, delegates from 23 countries along with Vatican officials produced the document "The Catholic University in the Modern World." This lecture and a subsequent panel of university presidents revisited the history and legacy of the statement at its 50th anniversary.