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Columns::October 15, 2001
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Louise McBee Lecture examines ways to enrich college experience
By Karen Gailey
kegailey@uga.edu
The annual Louise McBee Lecture is scheduled for Oct. 18 at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel. This year’s speaker is Richard J. Light;
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he will discuss “What Students, Faculty, and Administrators Can Do to Enrich the College Experience.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
The McBee Lecture honors Louise McBee, vice president for academic affairs emerita at UGA. The lectureship, established in 1988, is filled annually by a distinguished scholar or public figure with expertise in higher education.
Light teaches statistics, program evaluation and policy analysis, with special focus on programs in education, in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. His work emphasizes collecting and analyzing information to improve program management. Light received his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard in 1969 and was named a professor in 1974. He has authored or co-authored seven books. His most recent book, Making the Most of College: Students Speak their Minds, published in 2001 by the Harvard University Press, was honored with the Virginia and Warren Stone prize for best book of the year about education and society.
At Harvard, Light recently joined the Kearns Program at the Kennedy School’s Center for Business and Government to lead efforts to enhance emerging, productive relationships among education, business and government. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Light directs the Harvard Assessment Seminars. This consortium, supported by two Harvard presidents, Derek Bok and Neil Rudenstine, brings together faculty and senior administrators from 24 colleges and universities to carry out research on college effectiveness. It is now in its 14th year.
Outside of the university, Light has been president of the American Evaluation Association, an organization of scholars, scientists and managers working to improve public sector services. He has chaired the Panel on Programs for Youth for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. He has served on the National Advisory Board for the Program Evaluation Division of the U.S. General Accounting Office, the research wing of Congress.
Light currently is chair and director of “The Educational Impact of Changing Student Demographics in Colleges and Universities” project. This three-year study, based at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, brings together senior campus leaders from 20 selective colleges and universities. It encourages gathering evidence about what campus leaders can do at a time of dramatically changing demographics. The project explores how to enhance benefits for students, both inside and outside of classrooms, as they attend colleges with fellow students who come from increasingly different backgrounds.
Light is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and currently serves as an elected Trustee of Wellesley College.
In 1999, he became a member of the National Board on Testing and Assessment for the National Academy of Sciences. He has been elected to the National Board of the American Association for Higher Education.
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