Education
Stephanie Inglis (2012-2013)
Sep 24, 2012
鈥淭he Mi鈥檏maq Nation and Cape Breton University: 25 Years of Success鈥 Stephanie Inglis is a linguist who has been a professor at Cape Breton University since 1986. She was integral in creating the first Native Studies courses in the university and has had a hand in the [...]
Marjorie Garber (2008-2009)
Jan 20, 2009
鈥淎fter the Humanities鈥 Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of nineteen single-authored books and the editor or co-editor of seven edited collections. She has also [...]
Benjamin Spock (1979-1980)
Nov 20, 1979
鈥淭oday鈥檚 Children鈥 Benjamin Spock was an American pediatrician and influential child care expert. His book, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books in history. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies, and had been [...]
Robert Baffour (1971-1972)
Feb 16, 1972
鈥淭he Role of Education in Developing Nations鈥 Robert Baffour was a noted Ghanaian nuclear engineer, businessman, and civil servant. He was a professor and vice-chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University, a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the president of [...]
Bertram Vivian Bowden (1971-1972)
Oct 05, 1971
鈥淭he Education Scene in North America and Europe鈥 Lord Bertram Vivian Bowden was the principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After earning his PhD in natural sciences from Cambridge, Bowden taught physics at a number of schools. [...]
Gordon Brown (1969-1970)
Jan 30, 1970
鈥淎spects of the Interaction Between Technology and Society鈥 Gordon Brown was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an authority on servomechanisms 鈥 automatic feedback control systems 鈥 and their application to emerging computer [...]
Claude Bissell (1968-1969)
Jan 30, 1969
鈥淎cademic Freedom -The Student Version鈥 Claude Bissell was the president of the University of Toronto. After completing graduate work in English and Philosophy, he returned to University College at the University of Toronto in 1941, leaving temporarily the next year to join [...]
Clark Kerr (1968-1969)
Dec 05, 1968
鈥淗igher Education in the US: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times鈥 Clark Kerr was an economist and former Chancellor of the University of California. He was educated at Swarthmore College, Stanford, and Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in economics from 1939. In 1945, he [...]
Norman Jeffares (1967-1968)
Feb 26, 1968
鈥淪tudents and Society 鈥 Some Literary Views鈥 Norman Jeffares was one of the twentieth century鈥檚 most distinguished scholars of the poet W. B. Yeats. After Yeats鈥 death, Jeffares was given access to his personal papers and library, which enabled him to study the author鈥檚 [...]
M. M. Tumin (1967-1968)
Dec 01, 1967
鈥淩econstruction in Higher Education鈥 M.M Tumin was a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Princeton University whose work examined race relations. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University. In the early 1940s, Tumin comp
Lawrence C.B. Gower (1966-1967)
Mar 15, 1967
鈥淧roblems of African Universities South of the Sahara鈥 Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
Sir Hector Hetherington (1961-1962)
Jan 30, 1962
鈥淪ome Aspects of the British Experiment in Democracy鈥 Hector Hetherington was a Scottish philosopher. He studied at the University of Glasgow and Oxford. At the time of his talk, Hetherington was Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University. He began his academic career in the [...]