Harvard dean to speak

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:45:25 -0400

The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is holding its annual conference.

The event, scheduled for 9 a.m. Oct. 27 at the Hilton near the Raleigh-Durham Airport, will be called "Building Excellence into Higher Education."

It will feature policymakers, college presidents and scholars as they discuss what excellence means in today’s colleges and universities, Jane Stancill reports.

Featured speaker is Harry Lewis, former dean of Harvard College and author of "Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education." His talk could be provocative. It's entitled "Does Liberal Education Have a Future?"

The conference costs $20. To register or find out more, go here.