Academic Affairs

Please note that Ata Anzali’s Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture scheduled for Oct. 2 has been postponed.

We look forward to seeing you at Stefano Mula’s Rifelj Lecture, “How (Not) to Talk about Migration: The Case of Riace, Italy,” on Wednesday, October 9, at 4:30 p.m., in the Orchard Room at Hillcrest.

Visit the website to see the entire series.

SGA Presents 2024 Faculty and Staff Appreciation Awards: 2024 Marjorie Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award and 2024 Beverly and Rodney DeGray Staff Appreciation Award.  

Join Dr. Kelly Hogan and Dr. Viji Sathy, authors of Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom, for this active workshop on inclusive teaching. The session will highlight the need for high course structure and model techniques designed to elicit equity in the classroom.

Xan Smiley’s career in journalism has spanned more than half a century, predominantly as a writer and editor for The Economist, focusing on coverage of sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and the Soviet Union, the Middle East, the European Union, and the United States. In this lecture, Xan will analyze the success and failures of The Economist’s (and his own) coverage of events that have shaped the world.

Objects of Wonder
In the upcoming exhibition Objects of Wonder, students, faculty, staff, and alumni offer an intersection of research, art, history, and academia. These objects are curious snapshots-sneak peeks at the varied interests and endeavors present across this campus. Free and open to the public. Johnson Exhibition Gallery, Johnson Memorial Building room 208.

Over the past two decades, video essays have emerged as a vibrant mode of analyzing film and media, both within academia and broader public discourse. But if a video essay is comparable to an academic article, what are the possibilities of a larger-form videographic book?