Centennial Speaker Series:
Conversations on the Future of Higher Education
Next Speaker:
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Van Meter Auditorium
For information contact Alecea Davis Jones at 270.745.8986 or e-mail alecea.davis@wku.edu |
Dr. Calvin Mackie, a noted author and motivational speaker, will examine the nature, purpose, and direction of education in this country and will discuss strategies to confront the multiple challenges facing higher education today.
Dr. Mackie spoke last fall at the Council on Postsecondary Education's Institute for
Effective Governance Governor's Conference on Postsecondary Education
Trusteeship. The conference brings together the members of the governing boards
of Kentucky's colleges and universities, institutional presidents and staffs,
and members of the Council to discuss issues of statewide importance.
First Speaker:
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Peter Smith, author of The Quiet Crisis,
December 13, 2005 3:00 p.m .
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MMTH Auditorium
For tickets contact Alecea Davis Jones at 270.745.8986 or e-mail alecea.davis@wku.edu
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Dr. Smith is assistant director-general for education of United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He is founding president of California State University, Monterey Bay, and the Community College of Vermont as well as a former U.S. Congressman and Lieutenant Governor for the state of Vermont.
Born in 1945, Dr. Smith (USA) received a B.A. (magna cum laude) degree in History from Princeton University in 1968. He earned an M.A. degree in teaching (1970) and doctoral degree (Ed.d) in Education Administration, Planning and Social Policy (1984), both from Harvard University.
In The Quiet Crisis, Peter Smith claims America’s "success data" in higher education belies a failure to do more to close racial and economic divides. The problem, he says, is not that millions of lower-income and minority students lack the capacity to learn, but that colleges and universities lack the capacity to educate. He argues that our schools are organized for failure and that our historic "industrial model" won't survive the 21st century without radical changes (http://www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?p=965) .
WKU Dean David Lee has this to say; “Smith is a very engaging speaker with provocative ideas. His career path has put him in the middle of most of the significant changes that are re-shaping higher education both nationally and internationally.”
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