Scholar Rescue Fund - Hite Chair Scholar Lecture Series

Hite Chair Scholar Lecture Series

The SRF Hite Chair Scholar Lecture Series seeks to inform and promote interest in issues of academic freedom and political liberties. The series appoints SRF visiting academic fellows to engage in school-wide lectures, panel discussions and course-related seminars to share the personal experience of a threatened scholar and to educate university and high school audiences on global human rights issues around the world.

The Hite Chair Scholar Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of the Hite Foundation Chair for Communications of the Scholar Rescue Fund. If you are interested in welcoming a Hite Chair Scholar for a lecture on your campus, please contact us at SRF@iie.org or 212-205-6486.

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Lafayette College Lecture Series Event

Institute of International EducationFebruary 26, 2009

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Pictured above (left to right): SRF board member, Mr. Larry Hite and Professor Jabulani Moyo at Lafayette College

The first Hite Chair Scholar Lecture took place at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. As part of his visit to Lafayette College, Professor Jabulani Moyo delivered the keynote address, “Democracy and Academic Freedom in Africa” at Lafayette’s 4th Annual Africa Conference “The Ballot or the Bullet: Recent African Elections.”

Larry Hite (pictured above) introduced Professor Moyo and the goals and mission of the Hite Chair Scholar Lecture Series. The event was hosted by the student group called Africans Creating African Consciousness and Interest Abroad (ACACIA) and concluded with a dinner at the African Cultural House on the Lafayette Campus.

While on campus, Professor Moyo gave two classroom presentations in political science courses for Professors Thomas Yuster and Rexford Ahene. In addition, Professor Moyo met with Lafayette College President Daniel Weiss and representatives from the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC) consortium in Easton, which includes Lehigh University, DeSales University, Muhlenberg College, Moravian University and Cedar-Crest College. The group explored future collaboration to bring visiting lecturers to the campus and consortium and continue dialogue about global issues with particular interest in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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