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Thank You to Our Donors: 2022


42nd 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.

The COVID-19 pandemic, having pushed our conference online, has paused the publication of our conventional yearly program. Therefore, we are pleased to use this online space to provide our contributors with the recognition they deserve. Below, you will find a list of donors who offered their support of our work – either in time or resources – from June 15th, 2021 through June 24th, 2022.

 

Friends of the Foundation for Critical Thinking

Elizabeth Evans
A. Celeste Shelton
Ole Hjorth
Takeya Burr
Jeannine
Timothy P Brandon, Ph.D
Paramaguru Krishnan
Kim Rasmussen
Israel Uribe
Annette Pappas
Stuart Harrow
Sharon Tennyson Best
Sue Burgess
Pieter Dujardin
James Howse
Angela Mahaffey
Thamani Delgardo
Janice LePlatte

 

Ambassadors for Critical Thinking

We thank John S Yuille and Robert McMillan for making charitable contributions at this uncommon level.


Leadership Circle

Dale Full was our sole contributor at this level. Mr. Full has provided exceedingly generous support for two years in a row, and we thank him for his rare commitment to fairminded critical thinking.

 

Gifts in Kind

We give our sincerest gratitude to Kevin Holmes, whose volunteer efforts throughout 2021 and the first half of 2022 have been indispensible to the Foundation's ability to move forward.

And once again, to our greatest friend and ally, Kathy Abney: your unbroken willingness to share your extraordinary talents and valuable time have helped make great things happen, year after year. We are amazingly fortunate to count you among our companions on this critical journey.

 

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.