"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 this ambitious 14-day exploration of Vietnam, we’ll have ample opportunity to savor the many fascinations of the country and to understand those places and traditions that recent history has often obscured.
The Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar "Poverty, Resilience, and the Art of the Memoir" with Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses. March 12-13, 2010