June 2003
Campaign brings noted lecturers to campus
Funding obtained during the Access to Excellence campaign has enabled
UNF to attract to campus some of the top names in academics, the arts
and the media for
a series of lectures encompassing a variety of topics.
Nearly 20 lecturers have come to UNF for presentations since the Campaign
began. Gifts from four distinguished donors have helped finance these
presentations, which have been attended by thousands of students, faculty,
staff and people from Jacksonville and surrounding communities who are
not affiliated with the University.
The UNF Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions, prior
to the $1 million gift from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, implemented
the James S. Kemper Lecture Series and Symposium in Globalization and
Business Ethics. Funding for the series came from the James S. Kemper
Foundation. The series aims to explore the ethical issues and dilemmas
posed to commerce and trade by globalization. The gift from Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of Florida has endowed a lecture series component as
part of its gift.
Thomas Donaldson and Richard De George were the first two speakers
in the Kemper series. Donaldson and De George are widely considered
to be two of the most prominent thinkers on the international or global
dimension of business ethics. The final lecture was on "Globalization
and International Development" by David Crocker, who is the founder
and outgoing president of the International Development Ethics Association.
The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville, through a partnership with
UNF, sponsored a talk by noted Newsweek foreign affairs editor and columnist
Fareed Zakaria. Other speakers in the World Affairs Council lecture
series have included journalist Bernard Kalb and New York Times columnist
Thomas Friedman.
A gift from BellSouth Corp. has helped underwrite the University's
acclaimed Presidential Lecture Series. Eli Wiesel, Maya Angelou, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Frank McCourt, John Updike and Oscar Arias
are the Presidential Lecturers who have visited UNF.
The UNF Foundation Board has co-sponsored many lectures on campus.
Currently, the Foundation Board has a line item in its budget to support
bringing outstanding lecturers to the University.
A recent commitment from Jay and Deanie Stein will make it possible
for UNF to add to the tradition of quality lecture series. The $100,000
gift will fund the Jay and Deanie Stein Lecture, which will include
one or more programs annually. Lectures will be free and open to the
public. Students and faculty often will participate in small class discussion
groups with speakers featured in the Jay and Deanie Stein Lecture.
What students learn in the classroom or the lab is a vital component
of their college education. This knowledge can be augmented by what
students learn, or the concepts they are exposed to, at any of the myriad
of campus lectures, most of which have been generated by the Access
to Excellence campaign.
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