The University Libraries and the Provost’s Office are pleased to begin a series of programs on the subject What is College For? based on the recommendation of our new Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Dana Dunn to read a book of the same name when she interviewed at UNCG for the position last spring. University Libraries Director of Communications and External Relations Barry Miller took the idea to heart and proposed a series of programs which were endorsed by Dean of University Libraries Rosann Bazirjian and Dunn. The project was accelerated to further inform the strategic planning process currently being undertaken by UNCG.
To begin the series, we have invited Richard A. DeMillo of Georgia Tech to speak on the topic, “New Ecosystems for Higher Education: The Road Ahead.” DeMillo is the author of the book Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities, and is Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities and Chair of Computer Science and Professor of Management at Georgia Tech. He founded and leads a unique institution, the Center for 21st Century Universities, Georgia Tech’s “living laboratory” for fundamental change in higher education. He is responsible for educational technology innovation at Georgia Tech and is a national leader and spokesman in the online revolution in higher education.
DeMillo’s talk is free and open to the public and will be held on Tuesday, November 4 from 4-6 p.m. in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House on the UNCG Campus.
Andrew Delbanco of Columbia University, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, will speak April 14, 2015 at 4 p.m. in the same location.
Reposted from Friends of the UNCG Library