Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
¾¨Ó㴫ý will host author and educator Jonathan Kozol for two sessions of "Shame of the Nation: Still Separate, Still Unequal" Tuesday, Feb. 22. Both presentations are free and open to the public.
The afternoon session will be from 12:40-1:30 p.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center. The evening lecture will be from 7-8:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
Following his graduation from Harvard with a degree in English literature, Kozol was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. Spurred by the civil rights movement of the mid-1960s, he moved from Harvard Square to a poor black neighborhood in Boston and became a teacher in the Boston public schools. He devoted the next four decades to issues of education and social justice in America.
His critically-acclaimed and award-winning books include Death at an Early Age, a description of his first year as a teacher; Rachel and Her Children, a study of homeless mothers and their children; The Shame of the Nation, a powerful exposé of conditions in nearly 60 public schools in 11 states; and Letters to a Young Teacher, his most recent work.
Kozol's appearance is sponsored by ¾¨Ó㴫ý's Diversity Symposium, Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Office of Diversity Services, and Student Government Association Diversity Committee.
Contact Jeannette Hubbard, ¾¨Ó㴫ý director of diversity services, at (724) 946-7179 (e-mail hubbarj@westminster.edu) or Dr. Patrick Krantz, director of ¾¨Ó㴫ý's Drinko Center, at (724) 946-6097 (e-mail krantzpd@westminster.edu) for additional information.
