A conference
by
The Center for Vision & Values
at Grove City College

April 16 & 17, 2009

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Schedule

Thursday, April 16

 
10:00-10:10Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall Opening remarks by Grove City College President Richard G. Jewell '67 and Executive Director of the Center for Vision & Values Paul Kengor
10:15-11:15Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "The Soul of the American University" by George Marsden
11:30-12:45Lunch in Old MAP (for those who register for meals) "G.K. Chesterton on Higher Education" by Joseph Pearce, Writer-in-Residence and Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University
1:00-2:15Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "A Q & A with Annette Kirk," president of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal Interviewer - John A. Sparks '66, J.D.
2:30-3:45Simultaneous Panels
Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "Why Robust Faiths are Better Off Being Excluded from Higher Education" A Discussion featuring Darryl (D.G.) Hart, with responses by Dr. Paul C. Kemeny and Dr. Steven L. Jones
Pew Fine Arts Center / Recital Hall "What Would Lewis and Sayers Say on Higher Education" A Panel Discussion with Dr. James G. Dixon III and Dr. Janice Brown
4:00-4:45Spotlight - "Grove City College Abroad: How Our Educational Philosophy Plays Overseas" An interview with Dr. Lois L. Johnson by DR. Steven L. Jones
5:30-6:30Dinner in Old MAP (for those who register for meals) "Faith, Freedom and Grove City College: 25 Years After the Landmark Grove City College Supreme Court Case" by David Lascell, Grove City College Trustee and chief counsel for the College before the United States Supreme Court in the 1984 case, Grove City College v. Bell
7:00-8:00Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "God and Man at Yale Revisited George H. Nash senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

Friday, April 17

9:00-9:50Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "The Mission of the Christian College Today" by Gary Scott Smith '72
10:00-10:50Simultaneous Lectures
Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "How to Keep a Christian College Christian" by Dr. William P. Anderson , Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Grove City College
Pew Fine Arts Center / Recital Hall "The Beginning and End of Higher Education" A Panel Discussion with Dr. Michael Coulter '91 and Dr. Mark W. Graham
11:00-12:00Hall of Arts and Letters / Atrium "The Matter at Hand" - radio show by Larry Weidman, WGRC radio
11:30-12:45Lunch in Old MAP (for those who register for meals) "Medved on the Jewish University" by Michael Medved
1:00-1:50Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "Tenure in Higher Education" by Naomi Schaefer Riley, a Wall Street Journal editor and author of God on the Quad
2:00-2:50Simultaneous Lectures
Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "The Digital Classroom: Two Views of Technology in Higher Education" A Panel Discussion with Dr. William Birmingham and Dr. T. David Gordon
Pew Fine Arts Center / Recital Hall "Sacred Ground? Land and Higher Education" A Panel Discussion with Dr. Andrew J. Harvey and Dr. Jason Edwards
3:00-3:50Simultaneous Lectures Hall of Arts and Letters / Sticht Lecture Hall "Freedom of Thought? Academic Biases in Higher Education" A Panel Discussion with Dr. David Ayers and Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Pew Fine Arts Center / Recital Hall "Faith, Freedom and the Hard Sciences: Challenges and Issues for Christian Scientists in the Modern Academy" A Panel Discussion with Dr. Jan Dudt and Dr. Glenn Marsch
3:00-6:00Hall of Arts and Letters / Atrium "The Michael Medved Show" - radio show by Michael Medved
5:30-6:45Dinner in Old MAP (for those who register for meals) "Professor Marx: Communism and the Classroom" by Center for Vision & Values Executive Director Paul Kengor
7:00-8:00Crawford Hall / Auditorium Conference Keynote Address, "Faith, Freedom and the Free Market: Teaching Economics at the American University," by Dr. Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and nationally syndicated columnist
8:00Closing Remarks by Richard G. Jewell or Paul Kengor