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Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College educates women to think deeply, live honorably and engage the intellectual and social challenges of their times. Students are drawn to Agnes Scott by its excellent academic reputation, exceptional faculty, and metropolitan Atlanta location; offering myriad cultural and experiential learning opportunities. A diverse and growing residential community of scholars, this highly selective liberal arts college encourages study abroad and presents its curriculum with international context. Agnes Scott College delivers on its promise: The World for Women.

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  • Dangers of a Liberal Education

    Wed, Feb 20, 2008
    John W. Kuykendall, president emeritus of Davidson College, suggests that the "danger" in a liberal education is not making the most of it. Kuykendall argues that George Washington Scott and the other founders of what was then Decatur Female Seminary knew exactly what they were doing establishing this "school of high character" in 1889. Liberal learning requires doing something with what we learn, and that it implies that we focus not so much on making a living as in making a life, he said.
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  • Choosing Our Genes?

    Mon, Apr 7, 2008
    In this ethics lecture *Should We Engineer the Genomes of Our Children?: Navigational Policymaking in the New Genetic Era*, Roberta Berry explains why this question poses a difficult challenge for policymaking in modern, pluralistic, democratic societies, and proposes how we might best respond to the challenge.
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  • Shirley Franklin on Women and the Political Process

    Sat, May 10, 2008
    Atlanta's first woman mayor, Shirley Franklin, calls on the 2008 graduates of the all-woman college to get involved in the political process in order to effect social change.
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  • Barbara Walters: Audition

    Mon, May 19, 2008
    Barbara Walters discusses her new book, *Audition*, and reveals the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. Walters writes with candor about her private life and professional career, reflecting on the choices she has made, the work she has done, the people she has met, the heartbreak she has faced, and the challenges she has coped with and overcome. Walters began her career as a TV morning news anchor on NBC's *Today*, followed by 25 years as a co-host of ABC's newsmagazine *20/20* and *The View*. This event is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book and moderated by WSB-TV anchor Jovita Moore.
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  • Terrorism and US Foreign Policy

    Tue, Oct 21, 2008
    Catherine V. Scott, professor and chair of political science at Agnes Scott College, presents a multimedia look at *Imagining Terror in an Era of Globalization: Popular Constructions of Terrorism and US Foreign Policy*.
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  • An Agenda for 21st Century Women

    Fri, Apr 20, 2007
    Five distinguished women bring the theme "Stand Up, Speak Up: an Agenda for 21st Century Women" to life through dialogue rooted in their areas of expertise: the persistence of slavery, ensuring clean water, empowerment through the vote, women's roles in postcolonial societies and the challenge of enduring discrimination.
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  • Beverly Daniel Tatum: Can We Talk About Race?

    Sat, May 12, 2007
    Beverly Daniel Tatum addresses the 2007 graduating class of Agnes Scott College as the commencement keynote speaker. Agnes Scott College presents Spelman College President Tatum, noted writer, scholar, administrator and race relations expert, as their 118th commencement speaker. **Beverly Daniel Tatum** was appointed to the Spelman presidency in 2002, and accepted the position after 13 years of service and multiple assignments at Mount Holyoke College, including professor of psychology, department chair, dean of the college and acting president. Tatum is a clinical psychologist with expertise in black families in white communities, racial identity in teens and the role of race in the classroom. Teaching her signature course on the psychology of racism for more than 20 years, she has toured extensively, leading workshops on racial identity development and its impact in the classroom. Her 2007 book, *Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation*, explores the social and educational implications of the growing racial isolation in our public schools. Tatum also is the writer of *Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community* (1987) and has published numerous articles, including her classic 1992 Harvard Educational Review article, *Talking about Race, Learning about Racism: An Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom*.
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