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News Release
UNIVERSITY HOUSING NEWS RELEASE/November 8, 2007
First 2007-08 'Last Lecture' to be Delivered
Nov. 12
You’re a college professor, you are going to retire soon, and you are
scheduled to deliver your final classroom lecture. But on this occasion, you
can talk about anything you want. What would your final words to your
students be?
That’s the concept of a faculty lecture series at Boise State University
titled “Last Lecture.” Sponsored by the Department of University Housing and
the Civic Leadership Residential College, the series is designed to “break
down the four walls of the classroom and to make engagement with new ideas
possible outside the traditional format,” said Ginna Husting, professor of
sociology and one of the program’s coordinators. According to Jeremy Ball,
professor of criminal justice who helped start the program at Boise State,
“This series allows faculty to speak from the heart in a more casual
setting.”
Now in its third academic year, the inaugural Last Lecture of the 2007-08
academic year will be delivered by kinesiology professor Caile Spear at 7:30
p.m. Nov. 12 in the Farnsworth Room of the Student Union. Spear and Husting
are two of five faculty members who are living in student housing this year
as part of Boise State’s College Residential Program.
“My topic for the Last Lecture is on ‘Using Your Voice,’” said Spear. “I
went to high school and college in the mid- to late ’70s, and that time was
full of people using their voice for change. If I was going to give my last
lecture of my academic career it would be about using your voice for change
(and) being an advocate.”
Past speakers were political science professor Stephanie Witt and philosophy
professor Andrew Schoedinger during the 2005-06 academic year and
communication professors Heidi Reeder and Marty Most in 2006-07.
The Last Lecture series is part of the extracurricular offerings of Boise
State’s Residential College Program, which provides a small school setting
on campus where students and faculty live and learn together. Designed after
the Cambridge and Oxford college models, the program consists of five
communities in four residence halls where faculty live in the building with
the students, planning educational activities that complement the students’
academic major or interests.
The Residential College program originated at Boise State in 2004 with the
opening of two new residence halls on campus. The program is growing and now
boasts 118 students.
The Last Lecture series will tentatively feature one to three lectures a
semester by Boise State faculty, Husting said. The schedule for the rest of
the current academic year is still in the works, and last lecturers from the
Boise State faculty do not have to be affiliated with the Residential
College Program.
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Media Contact: Bob Evancho, University Communications, 426-1643;
bevanch@boisestate.edu
For the 10th time in the last 11 years, Boise State University has set an
all-time record for Idaho higher education institutions with an enrollment
of 19,540 – an overall increase of 3.5 percent. A record freshman class of
2,280 students is also the most academically talented group ever to enter
Boise State, including 12 National Merit finalists.
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