What is the Community of Scholars Lecture?

During the fall semester the College of Liberal Arts engages a speaker for the Community of Scholars Presentation.   This presentation is to draw attention to one or more of the disciplines within the School, to appeal to the general public and to faculty and students by illustrating high intellectual achievement.  Programs are of general humanistic appeal with interdisciplinary topics.  The speaker is asked to make one public presentation and one presentation to students.

The responsibility for identifying and contacting the annual speaker falls to individual departments within the school on a rotating basis.  The reasons for taking this approach are not only to identify worthwhile speakers but also to insure "ownership" of the program for that year by the department and to insure a good student turn out.

Funding for the Community of Scholars Presentation derives from resources in the Provost's office and from grants.

Until 2003 funds from the Community of Scholars program together with funds from Liberal Arts were combined to help underwrite the Liberal Arts Distinguished Scholar Presentation.  In 2002 the decision was made to create two programs.

Check back later for information on the Fall 2008 presentation.

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History of speakers

2007-2008	Dr. Elisa Camiscioli, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Binghamton
2006-2007	Dr. Jonathan Tittler, Professor of Spanish, Rutgers University-Camden
2005-2006:	Dr. Louise DeSalvo, the Jenny Hunter Endowed Scholar for Creative writing and Literature, Hunter College
2004-2005:	Dr. Judith D. Hoover, Professor of Communication, Western Kentucky University
2003-2004:	Dr. Peg Zeglin Brand, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies Indiana University, Bloomington
2002-2003:	Dr. Douglas Harper, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Duquesne University