A Project of the Ripon College Department of Communication
Undertaken with support from the Ripon College Ethical Leadership Program
The Ripon Forum on Ethics and Oratory brings together undergraduate students and renowned scholars to collaboratively analyze the oratory of America’s greatest leaders.
The Ripon College Department of Communication is noted for providing students both with intensive experience in original research and writing as well as opportunities for outreach via service-learning. The Ripon Forum on Ethics and Oratory engages senior communication majors in both foci of the program.
Throughout the senior year, students analyze the discourse of great American speakers and work collaboratively with departmental faculty and a featured guest scholar to refine their essays. In April, the undergraduates conduct the Ripon Forum on Ethics and Oratory Youth Summit, a unique, interactive learning experience in which Ripon College senior communication majors provide area high school students with insights into the study of communication at the college level, and the role of ethical communication in effective leadership.
Perhaps most fundamentally, though, the Ripon College students find that they, themselves, are challenged to emerge as leaders, to put lessons learned over four years of course work to practical effect as they organize and operate an educational conference, provide instruction to younger students, and, in the end, become role models for the next generation of young scholars.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2008 Ripon Forum on Ethics and Oratory Scholar: Keynote lecture by Dr. Susan Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Feb. 12, 2008, 11:15 a.m.
Great Hall, Harwood Memorial Union
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