Faculty Senate Lecture Will Feature Alan Guskin
For release: October 14, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Alan E. Guskin, who has devoted 25 years to leading universities, will be the featured speaker at the University of Memphis' Marcus W. Orr Faculty Senate Lectureship on Monday, Oct. 25. His topic will be "Facing the Future: Creating a Vital University in a Climate of Restricted Resources." The event, which will begin at 2 p.m. in the University Center's Faulkner Lounge, Room 311, is free and open to the public.

Guskin is a social psychologist who has written many periodical articles and book chapters on the restructuring of colleges and universities, the change process, and leadership in higher education, including three widely-cited articles published in Change magazine. He has been a consultant to numerous universities and higher educational associations on restructuring and the future of higher education.

He is Distinguished University Professor at Antioch University, where he is also director of the Project on the Future of Higher Education, a faculty member of the Ph.D. program in Leadership and Change, and president emeritus. From 1985 to 1994 Guskin served simultaneously as president of Antioch University and Antioch College. Following a major restructuring of the central administration and leadership, he became chancellor of the five-campus university from 1994 to 1997.

Guskin has also held leadership roles at Clark University and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He was on the faculty at those schools and at the University of Michigan.

For more information about Guskin's talk, call 678-2512.

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