"I love teaching in the Alumni College. The chance to hear your colleagues and distinguished outside speakers talk about their special subject areas, the incentive to read about the larger context of an area you are interested in, the opportunity to test your ideas in front of a group of committed adult learners, the excitement of a whole week spent examining a subject from multiple points of view--all that is a sort of academic dream. But the best part of any Alumni College is the Alumni. What a great group of people, committed to life-long learning and to this university they love so much. They are the reason we do this."
--Pamela H. Simpson, Ernest Williams II Professor of Art History
In its 18th year—now the longest-running program of its kind in the country—the Law and Literature Seminar will turn to another American classic, Native Son, by Richard Wright. Published one year after The Grapes of Wrath, this is a story of a young black man, Bigger Thomas, whose flight from an accidental crime leads to more serious crimes for which he is eventually caught, charged, and condemned to death.
The Special Programs staff (left to right):
Tracey Mason, administrative assistant; Rob Fure, director; and Susie Thompson, associate director.
