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Center for Civic Leadership
and Public Service
Shaping a new generation of public leaders and responsible citizens
The Jim Ryan Symposium on Public Affairs is a semiannual forum that brings local, state and national leaders to the Benedictine University campus to discuss and debate issue important to domestic and international civic and political life. In the past, this symposium has brought to Benedictine such noted figures as:
- Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Lincoln Library in Springfield, who spoke about the effectiveness of American Presidents;
- U.S. Rep Mark Kirk (R-10th), who lectured about China as an
awakening superpower, influential ally and potential adversary;
- David Broder, political correspondent for the Washington Post, who discussed democracy in modern America;
- Barack Obama (D-IL), U.S. senator and presidential candidate;
- Richard Williamson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Human Rights Commission.
- Cass R. Sunstein, Renowned University of Chicago law professor
“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from
falling into error.”
— Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954, American Supreme Court Justice
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