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Tiffin University’s Weekly Electronic Newsletter
Vol. 15, Issue 15
January 13, 2015
TU to Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day In This Issue: ● This week’s activities page 2. ● Join TU’s Residence Life Staff page 2. ● Greek Pledge Interviews page 3. ● Murphy Center News page 3. ● TU Tech page 4.
Tiffin University will celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 19, at 11:00 a.m. in the Osceola Theatre located inside of the Gillmor Student Center. The public is invited. The keynote address, “Quit telling me we are post-racial: Revisiting the Dream,” will be delivered by Dr. Robert Simmons, III. Recently featured on CNN and currently serving as the Chief of Innovation and Research for the District of Columbia Public Schools, Dr. Simmons was the founding director of the Center for Innovation in Urban Education, and a tenured professor of urban education, and associated faculty member in African and African American Studies program at Loyola University Maryland. Additionally, he is a member of the nationally recognized social justice collaborative Edchange which is a coalition of educators providing professional development on educational equity and modeling a commitment to moving beyond celebrating the joys of diversity and toward educational equity in schools and communities. For more information, contact Dr. Sharon Perry-Nause at 419-448-3504 or perrynauses@tiffin.edu.
Professor Rovira Invited to Lecture in Brazil Associate Professor of English James Rovira has been invited by The Milton Studies Research Group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais to deliver a lecture as part of the 2015 Milton Lecture Series in Brazil. Rovira's talk will bring together philosopher of language theorist Robert Brandom with Milton's famous tract on freedom of the press, Areopagitica. The paper is titled “Pragmatics in the Public Square: Robert Brandom and Milton’s Areopagitica."