“Acquiring, Managing and Protecting Credit,” author Mitch Weiss
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Weiss helped develop a popular course on personal finance for the University of Hartford and is the author of the new e-book “Life Happens: A Practical Guide to Personal Finance from College to Career.”
“Mississippi Innocence,” Tucker Carrington, director of the Mississippi Innocence Project
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Carrington joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi School of Law as the first director of the Mississippi Innocence Project, which is committed to providing the highest quality legal representation to its clients: Mississippi state prisoners serving significant periods of incarceration who have cognizable claims of wrongful conviction.
Stan Greenberg, chairman and CEO, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Greenberg has served as a polling advisor to former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former South African President Nelson Mandela and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner specializes in political polling and campaign strategy, helping political candidates, parties and ballot initiatives succeed across the country and around the world
“Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities,” professor Rich Demillo
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– The Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Institute of Technology, Demillo will discuss his book “Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities,” in which he argues that the vast majority of American colleges are clinging to a centuries-old model of higher education and must adapt to new technologies to survive in the modern world.
Luma Mufleh, founder of The Fugees Family
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– In 2005, Mufleh started a soccer team called the Fugees, which included players from 28 war-torn countries, to provide refugee boys with free access to organized soccer. The Fugees Family is a non-profit devoted to working with child survivors of war by using soccer to provide support and structure.
“Intelligent Cities,” architect Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Part of the Art of Architecture lecture series
– Piedmont-Palladino is a professor of architecture at Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center and a curator at the National Building Museum. She will give a lecture titled “Intelligent Cities,” which investigates the intersection of information technology and urban life and design.
“Judicial Election Reform,” Tom Phillips, retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Phillips is a graduate of Harvard Law School and is currently a partner with Baker Botts in Austin, Texas. In 1988, he became the first Republican elected as chief justice in Texas history. Since his retirement from the court he has been active in discussions about the problems with and methods of selection of state court judges.
“Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgetten Friendship, and Antebellum Plantation Diary,” professor Sally Wolff-King
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– A scholar of Southern literature at Emory University, Wolff-King will discuss her book “Ledgers of History,” which details the future Nobel laureate through childhood recollections of Dr. Edgar Francisco whose father was a close friend of Faulkner.
Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro League Baseball Museum
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Kendrick has served as president of the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., since March of 2011. Previously, he served for a year as executive director of the National Sports Center for the Disabled, also in Kansas City. He was vice president of marketing at the NLBM from 1998 to 2010.
“Arley Hall and its Gardens: A Privately Owend Historic Estate,” Viscount Ashbrook
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *In Partnership with P. Allen Smith
– Arley Hall in Cheshire, United Kingdom, has been owned by the same family for over 500 years and the current owner, the 11th Viscount Ashbrook, will give a lecture about the gardens, Arley Hall and other historic buildings on the estate.
john a. powell, director of the Haas Center for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of California, Berkeley
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– An internationally recognized scholar on race, poverty and regional equity, powell will give a lecture as part of a summit on race and equity hosted by the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy. The former director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, powell will discuss unconscious bias and community philanthropy as a tool to dismantle unjust structures.
*Reserve your seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu, or calling 501-683-5239.