New forum for homecomings to campus
Ursinus alumni are turning away from fall homecomings centered on food and football, in favor of food for thought at a new alumni program aimed at fostering a connection to the college.
The college hopes to repeat the success of last year's first-time Alumni Academy & Reunions when some 650 alumni descended on the college for classes, tours, use of the facilities and class reunions.
Said Robert Reichley, chair of the Ursinus trustees and retired executive vice president of Brown University, "The schools that have renewed the relationship between the college's faculty and their former students make the correct assumption: their alumni did not stop thinking and learning the day their diploma was issued."
From May 29 through June 1, 2003, alumni will return under the theme "Going Global," with keynote speaker Peter Bergen, CNN journalist, terrorism expert and author, one of the few American journalists to have interviewed Osama Bin Laden.
Some of the classes offered: - Malpractice and Defensive Medicine, taught by Business & Economics Professor Heather O'Neill;- Internationalizing of Ursinus' Curriculum, taught by Associate Dean Annette Lucas;- Prospects for Democracy: The New Leadership in China, taught by Professor of Politics Steven Hood;- After the Fall: Transitional Justice, taught by the Hon. Joseph Melrose, former Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Professor of International Relations;- The Unmanned Exploration of Space, taught by Jim Scott, Class of 1953, a project manager for NASA's Magellan.
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