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CIC ANNOUNCES NEW WOODROW WILSON VISITING FELLOWS
For Immediate Release:
February 1, 2008
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Contact:
Laura Wilcox
Vice President for Communications
Council of Independent Colleges
(202) 466-7230
lwilcox@cic.nche.edu
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WASHINGTON,
DC — The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) announced
today the addition of 20 new Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows to its roster
of nearly 100 distinguished professionals in fields ranging from journalism
to business to health policy to diplomacy. The Fellows spend one week
on a college campus sharing their experiences and knowledge with students
and faculty members.
New Fellows include:
- South African jurist Richard Goldstone, also known
for his prosecution of war crimes trials occurring in Rwanda and the
former Yugoslavia;
- Harold Piper, award-winning former Baltimore Sun
foreign correspondent and editor;
- David Wagoner, poet, novelist, playwright, former
editor of Poetry Northwest, winner of the Ruth Lilly Prize, and nominee
for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry;
- Gretchen Sandles, a retired analyst for the CIA who
also edited the President’s Daily Brief and for 27 years reported
on intelligence gathered about the former Soviet Union;
- Gary Smith, record producer for such musical stars
as the Pixies, Ten Thousand Maniacs, and Natalie Merchant;
- Nancy Tate, executive director of the League of Women
Voters;
- Charles Hauss, peace activist and foreign policy
analyst;
- Jameel Jaffer, national security director for the
ACLU;
- Andris Barblan, recently retired secretary general
of the Magna Charta Observatory on the Universities’ Fundamental
Values and Rights in Bologna, Italy, and former secretary general of
the Association of European Universities;
- Dale McCormick, the first woman in America to complete
a carpentry apprenticeship with the carpenters’ union and currently
director of the Maine State Housing Authority;
- Kevin Powers, division counsel for the Drug Enforcement
Agency;
- Robert Quinn, executive director of Scholars at Risk;
- Janisse Ray, poet, memoirist, and environmentalist;
- Dede Bartlett, former officer of two Fortune 25 companies;
- Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition
Against Censorship;
- Lee Feigon, Sinologist, seafood company executive,
author, and film-maker;
- Mary Tabor, author and former public affairs director
of the American Petroleum Institute;
- Lee Fritschler, former assistant secretary of education
in the Clinton administration; and
- Samin Zia-Zarifi, deputy director of Human Rights
Watch.
The new Fellows join a roster that includes former New York Times
correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler;
columnist Eleanor Clift of Newsweek; New York
Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman; Kevin
Quigley, president and CEO of the National Peace Corps Association;
and Callie Crossley, TV news magazine producer and documentary
filmmaker.
The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program, which is administered by
the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) in Washington, DC, brings prominent
artists, diplomats, journalists, business leaders, and other nonacademic
professionals to campuses across the United States for a week-long residential
program of classes, seminars, workshops, lectures, and informal discussions.
For 35 years, the Visiting Fellows have been introducing students and
faculty members at liberal arts colleges to a wide range of perspectives
on life, society, community, and achievement. The Visiting Fellows program,
available to all four-year colleges and universities, has placed more
than 3,500 Fellows at more than 250 public and private colleges, many
of which are in remote locations.
More information is available
here on CIC's website or by contacting CIC at visitingfellows@cic.nche.edu.
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The Council of Independent Colleges is
an association of more than 580 independent liberal arts colleges and
universities and higher education affiliates and organizations that work
together to strengthen college and university leadership, sustain high-quality
education, and enhance private higher education’s contributions
to society. To fulfill this mission, CIC provides its members with skills,
tools, and knowledge that address aspects of leadership, financial management
and performance, academic quality, and institutional visibility. The Council
is headquartered at One Dupont Circle in Washington, DC.
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