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LOUISE McBEE LECTURES
The Louise McBee Lectureship in Higher Education honors Dr. Louise McBee, who held leadership positions for more than 25 years at the University of Georgia before serving for more than a decade as a champion for higher education in the House. Distinctiveness and distinction characterize the Louise McBee Lecture series in the Institute of Higher Education, which is one of the few annual lecture series in the United States that focuses solely on higher education. Founded in 1989, the series has brought numerous persons of great distinction to IHE and the University of Georgia to comment upon key directions and themes in higher education. Among the lecturers have been distinguished scholars who study American higher education like Patricia Cross, Alexander Astin, and Patricia Graham. McBee lecturers have also included notable scholars from fields other than higher education studies who write and think about the academy in distinctive ways. For example, the distinguished Vanderbilt historian Paul K. Conkin lectured in 1992 on “The Mature but Anxious University: Hungry, Captive, Politicized and Deconstructed.” Lecturers also come from outside the United States and have included Geoffrey Thomas, president of Kellogg College of Oxford University, who also serves as an IHE senior fellow. Thomas lectured on “Who Should Call the Tune in Higher Education? Notes from a Small Island.” James Downey, twice a visiting professor in IHE and former president of the University of New Brunswick and the University of Waterloo, expounded on “The University as Trinity: Balancing Corporation, Collegium, and Continuity.” Some lecturers are primarily known for the leadership that they have exerted in American higher education. These include Hanna Gray, former president of the University of Chicago, Katherine Lyall, president of the University of Wisconsin System, and this year’s lecturer, Nils Hasselmo, former president of both the University of Minnesota and the Association of American Universities.
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