The recitation sections are being taught in renovated classrooms in Building 2. Mr. Cortes, winner of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1984 for his community organizing accomplishments, was a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1993. He is a member of the Carnegie Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades, the Pew Forum for K-12 Education Reform and the Aspen Institute Domestic Strategy Group. He will deliver an open lecture on a similar topic on November 12. I hope that these visiting professorships will facilitate a mechanism for individuals to be judged by the 'content of their character,' not their race or gender.
Character is inclusive of scholarly activities.
Dr. Kornegay, an honors graduate of Pratt Institue in Brooklyn, NY, holds the MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a research staff member for IBM and an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute before his appointment at Purdue in 1994. The overall standard is very high. In addition to teaching, he is a faculty fellow at Ohio State's Center for African Studies. Dr. Thomas, a graduate of Yale University, received the PhD in business economics from Harvard University in 1992.