Satellite Seminars Prove Beneficial to Colleges
Subscriptions are now being accepted for Phi Theta Kappa's 2007
Honors Satellite Seminar Series, which has proven successful
in energizing college honors programs, involving campus faculty in interdisciplinary
studies, and raising awareness of the Society at the college and in the community.
Register
online or download a Subscription
Form now for the 2007 Honors Satellite Seminar Series. Subscribe
to the series by Saturday, September 15, 2007, to receive a savings of $75
in registration costs.
At St. Clair County Community College
in Michigan, the Phi Theta Kappa chapter encouraged all campus faculty
to bring their classes to the 2006 seminar series, and offer extra credit
for participation. Invitations were sent to local high school students
and community leaders. Advisor Tom Obee said that more than 80 persons attended
the seminars, and an estimated 20 more watched the tapes, which were shown
in a campus lobby area.
The Satellite Seminar Series is based
on the 2006-08 Honors
Study Topic, Gold, Gods and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power.
The series consists of four lectures, presented by renowned speakers broadcast
via C-band and Ku-band satellite to college campuses across the nation.
The
2007 Honors Satellite Seminar Series begins in October and will include
the following lectures and speakers:
Satellite Seminar #1
- How to Win A Cosmic War - Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 6:30 pm CDT. Presenter
Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions,
a regular commentator for NPR's Marketplace and Middle East Analyst for
CBS News. In 1998, he was elected president of Harvard's Chapter of the World
Conference on Religion and Peace.
Satellite Seminar #2 - America
and China: Raising the Barricades? - Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 6:30
pm CDT. Presenter Zanny Minton Beddoes is The Economist's Washington
economics editor. Before joining the The Economist in 1994, she
spent two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Minton Beddoes is a regular commentator on Marketplace and has also appeared
on CNN, MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, CNBC and Public Interest.
Satellite
Seminar #3 - Afghanistan after the Taliban - Tuesday, October 30,
2007, 6:30 pm CDT. Presenter Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author
who wrote West of Kabul, East of New York and co-authored The
Other Side of the Sky with Afghan land mine victim Farah Ahmadi. Ansary
directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop, writes a monthly column for
Encarta.com, and teaches at San Francisco State University's Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute.
Satellite Seminar #4 - American Theocracies
- Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 6:30 pm CDT. Presenter Kevin Phillips is an
established political and economic author whose many books have influenced
presidential campaigns. A regular commentator for NPR, Phillips recent
best-selling books, American Dynasty, Wealth and Democracy
and American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion,
Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century have touched on the power
of political and economic forces in the United States.
