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At the beginning: A glance back at the Benjamin E. Mays Lecture's foundations
 The annual Benjamin E. Mays Memorial Lecture Series first began in
1989 to encourage the discussion of
issues facing urban educational leaders through a series of symposia,
conferences and lectures.
The series is named after Benjamin
E. Mays, who was a prominent scholar, teacher and civil rights activist in Atlanta for decades. Mays was a consultant for the Office of Education's U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education in 1969. He published more than 2,000 articles and nine books, and he mentored dozens of African-American men, including Alonzo A. Crim and Martin Luther King.
The first lecture had Charles V. Willie, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University, as its keynote speaker. The lecture series continues to bring outstanding speakers to the college, such as Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and a peace activist in
South Africa, who will be the keynote speaker at this year's lecture.
The 22nd annual Benjamin E.
Mays Lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Georgia State University Speaker's
Auditorium (44 Courtland St., Atlanta).
For more information about Gandhi and the Mays Lecture, click here.Photo caption: Benjamin E. Mays, a prominent scholar, teacher and civil rights activist. |
Upcoming Events in the College of Education
Research Wednesdays Speaker Series
September 22, 2010
12 noon
College of
Education, Room 1030
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Presenter: Lyn Turkstra
Topic: The effects of cognitive impairments on communication ability
in adolescents and adults with acquired neurologic disorders
Lyn Turkstra's research focuses on acquired cognitive-communication
disorders, particularly social communication in adolescents and young adults
with traumatic brain injury (TBI). She has published extensively on
cognitive and communication function after TBI and has worked clinically with
survivors of TBI for 20 years.
Turkstra's visit is also part of the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic's 35th anniversary celebration. In its 35 years in the college, the
clinic has served hundreds of people with communication disorders while educating
speech-language pathologists.
Research Wednesdays is held every Wednesday of the month. An
RSVP is required to attend this event. To confirm your attendance, please
contact Erin Whitney in the COE's Educational Research Bureau at (404) 413-8090
or ewhitney@gsu.edu.
For more information on Lyn Turkstra and the college's Research Wednesdays
Speaker Series, click here.
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Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic's 35th Anniversary
Sept. 20-23, 2010College of Education For more information on the anniversary celebrations, click here.
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