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Inside Undergraduate Education at Stanford: Lunch with Vice

Event Details

Date/Time:
Fri, September 09, 2011
11:30AM - 01:00PM
Venue:
The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston, Peabody Room
Location:
One Federal Street, 38th Floor, Boston MA
Map address
Registration Period:
08/19/2011-09/08/2011
Contact:
Paige Arnof-Fenn, '87

Spend your lunch hour with fellow alumni as we welcome Dr Harry Elam, Stanford's new vice provost for undergraduate education, to Boston. Professor Elam will give us an insider's perspective on Stanford's undergraduate program, with an opportunity to answer your questions.

Direction to Harvard Club are at http://www.harvardclub.com/club/scripts/library/view_document.asp?GRP=20288&NS=PUBLIC&APP=80&DN=DDTC 

Professor Harry J Elam Jr is the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. As vice provost, he oversees Stanford's 6,500-student undergraduate program, including general education and overseas studies.

Elam received an AB in social studies from Harvard College in 1978 and a PhD in dramatic arts from the University of California-Berkeley in 1984. Prior to joining Stanford as a visiting professor in 1990, Elam was an associate professor at the University of Maryland-College Park.
 
At Stanford, Elam has served as chair of the Department of Drama, director of the Introduction to Humanities program, director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts and director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts.
 
Elam's scholarly work focuses on contemporary American drama, particularly African American and Chicano theater. He is author and editor of six books including the Errol Hill Award-winning The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson. In 2006, Elam was winner of the Betty Jean Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching from the American Theatre and Drama Society, the winner of the Excellence in Editing Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the winner of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Theatre Research. He was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre in April 2006.

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