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Thank You to Our Donors



41st Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking

A Special Thank-You to Our Donors

 

Since our first fund drive began in 2017, we have traditionally used our annual conference program to honor those whose generous gifts in the preceding year helped us to continue our important work toward advancing fairminded critical thinking.

Because we did not publish our usual program for last year's conference (which was unexpectedly pushed online by the COVID-19 pandemic), we now owe our gratitude to two years' worth of contributors. Below, you will find a list of donors who offered their support of our work – either in time or resources – from March 4th, 2019 through June 15th, 2021.

 

Friends of the Foundation for Critical Thinking

Evgenii N. Volkov
Luis A Mendoza Calva
Brian Lin
Joe
Stephen Crowley
Marherna Heryaeni
Mark Warren
William Goldby
Jeremy White
William David Yates
Johnny Cain
Reggie Alford
Mary J. Camp
Glenna Decker
Harry Taylor
Bridget Johnson
Vicki Hale
Elisabeth Gambrell
Gail Spake
Lauren Morgan
Ronnie Littles
David Chester
Marie A Townsend
Hayley Hughes
Griselda Chapa
Ho Seok Lay
Patrick Davis
Ray D Harrison
Timothy Bowers
Srinivasan Balasubramanian
Sonhui Baker
Christine Prichard
R. Alford
Angie Montemayor
Mario Alejandro Becerril
Thomas Lacombe
Fabiola
Kenneth Broderick
Shawn Wearing
Nancy Van Erp
Joy Rosser-Wright
Donald Molde
Jane Darcey
Eugenia Moreno
Viola Olsen
Suresh Patel
Marshall Haley
Lauren Sinclair Morse
Lyman Grover
Renee Celestine
Susan C Allen
Ronda Hanning
LaTrice Curtis-Istance
Alexander Kibara
Terry Clark
Peter Campagnolo
Gia Kuek
Christine Cummings
Shepard Hurwitz
Ronald Kan
Jenny Julies
Patricia M Jones
Tamara Thompson
Whitney
F. Irene Waggoner
Devon Ryan
Cabinet Dentaire Arkadya
Theo Prodromitis
Daniel Gebremeskel
Glenn Wing
Miguel Angel Pérez Martínez
JoAnn M. Edwards
Tomas Goridkov
Joseph Liberto
Jeff S Keller
Ellen Steens
Deborah Richert
Tim Popovich
Emily Marie Parfait
Paul E. Little
Jill Browne
Donald Searles
Ana A Wedwick
Sally Myer

 

Scholars Circle

In two years, Dale Full has been the only person to contribute at this level. Mr. Full has our sincerest thanks for his extraordinary generosity.

 

Gifts in Kind

Thank you to Kevin Holmes for volunteering to help us throughout the first half of 2021 (so far). Mr. Holmes has gone out of his way to offer his valuable expertise at a time when it was much needed.

And last, but not least: to Kathy Abney, loyal friend and steadfast contributor to the critical thinking movement for many years, you have our heartfelt gratitude. Your talents have made the highly improbable a reality – many, many times.

 

 

To add your name to next year's list . . .

Click here to donate to the Foundation for Critical Thinking and contribute to the development of fairminded critical societies . We also welcome in-kind gifts (email Dr. Linda Elder at lindaelder@criticalthinking.org) in marketing, web design or web maintenance, and other volunteer capacities. We are profoundly grateful for all of your help.




Please do not pass this message by.

CRITICAL THINKING IS AT RISK.

Here are some of the big reasons why:

  1. Many people believe that critical thinking should be free and that scholars qualified to teach critical thinking should do so for free. Accordingly, they do not think they should have to pay for critical thinking textbooks, courses, or other resources when there is "so much free material online" - despite how erroneous that material may be.
  2. There are many misguided academicians, and some outright charlatans, pushing forth and capitalizing on a pseudo-, partial, or otherwise impoverished concept of critical thinking.
  3. Little to no funding is designated for critical thinking professional development in schools, colleges, or universities, despite the lip service widely given to critical thinking (as is frequently found in mission statements).
  4. Most people, including faculty, think they already know what critical thinking is, despite how few have studied it to any significant degree, and despite how few can articulate a coherent, accurate, and sufficiently deep explanation of it.
  5. People rarely exhibit the necessary level of discipline to study and use critical thinking for reaching higher levels of self-actualization. In part, this is due to wasting intellectual and emotional energy on fruitless electronic entertainment designed to be addictive and profitable rather than educational and uplifting.
  6. On the whole, fairminded critical thinking is neither understood, fostered, nor valued in educational institutions or societies.
  7. People are increasingly able to cluster themselves with others of like mind through alluring internet platforms that enable them to validate one another's thinking - even when their reasoning is nonsensical, lopsided, prejudiced, or even dangerous.
  8. Critical thinking does not yet hold an independent place in academia. Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it.

As you see, increasingly powerful trends against the teaching, learning, and practice of critical thinking entail extraordinary challenges to our mission. To continue our work, we must now rely upon your financial support. If critical thinking matters to you, please click here to contribute what you can today.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE OUR WORK.

Thank you for your support of ethical critical thinking.