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April 15, 2008
RIPON, Wis. –The Ripon College Ethical Leadership Program and Environmental Group of Ripon will welcome Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran to campus for a pair of sustainability-related presentations at 11:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. Both presentations will be given in the Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall of Science.
Dr. Corcoran is Professor of Environmental Studies and Environmental Education and Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is co-author of Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Contestation, Critique, Practice and Promise and Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World.
His 11:15 a.m. presentation is titled “The Urgency of Incorporating Sustainability in Higher Education: An Ethical Perspective.” The 7 p.m. presentation is titled “Supporting Young People on the Journey to Sustainable Societies” and will include information about using the Earth Charter as an Ethical Framework, and his research in the South Pacific on climate change.
As a companion event to Earth Day, Nashville-based folk rock band De Novo Dahl will play at 7 p.m. April 23 on the steps of Harwood Memorial Union.
All Earth Day events are free and open to the public.
About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 366 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly, and is listed among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction.
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