Civic Excellence
The Agora is an ancient marketplace of ideas. This digital agora invites students to challenge and enrich conventional thinking in civic and institutional life: business, economics, and public policy.
Tradition
Understand the foundations of important concepts and where they come from.
Engage with creative ideas that challenge and enrich tradition.
Innovation
Current Courses
University courses that explore both traditional and innovative concepts for institutional life, designed to nurture creativity and critical thinking.
Instructor
James Magnus-Johnston, PhD (ABD), MPhil, BA
James teaches business, political studies, and economics at Canadian Mennonite University. He's also the Director of the CMU Centre for Resilience, a co-working and experiential learning lab.
James has worked in finance, in public policy, and in communications as an editor and translator in Asia. He completed his MPhil in Economics at Cambridge University, where he studied the growth requirement of the global banking system, and is now building on that body of work at McGill. Learn more.
Agora Academy
A digital marketplace of ideas for civic life.
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