Costa Rica RPCV Lee Knefelkamp to give Baldwin Lecture On Developing Democratic Intelligence
Baldwin Lecture to Focus On Developing Democratic Intelligence
Lee Knefelkamp has keynoted virtually all major American higher education national associations over the past decade --the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the American Association of Higher Education, the National Association of Women in Education, The American Council on Education, the Ford Foundation, the Lily Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, the National Student Personnel Association, to name a few. On Feb. 7, Knefelkamp, professor and chair of the Department of Higher and Adult Education at Teacher's College of Columbia University, will add to her keynote list Truman's Baldwin Lecture.
"The campus as a laboratory for developing democratic intelligence" will be presented at 8 p.m. in the SUB Georgian Room. Refreshments will be at 6 p.m. in the SUB Alumni Room and a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Georgian Room. Tickets for the dinner are available in the Office of Faculty Development for $6. (One need not attend the dinner to attend the lecture.)
Knefelkamp has held faculty positions at The American University and University of Maryland. She also served as academic dean at Macalester College, where she received a bachelor's degree in humanities. She holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from University of Minnesota.
She is one of the nation's leading thinkers in the areas of student learning, cognitive development and multicultural curricular and institutional transformation. She is a senior fellow of the AAHE and of the AAC&U American Commitments National Panel..
She has been honored for her work in adult learning, student developmental theory building and multicultural curricular design. She has received the Carnegie Foundation's highest national award for teaching and scholarly excellence and the University of Maryland's Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award for excellence in both teaching and research.
A former Peace Corps volunteer (Costa Rica), she spends part of every summer teaching in the Intercultural Communi- cations Institute which brings together 1,000 individuals worldwide to study intercultural communication theory and methods.
An advocate for diversity in American education, her works focus on the study of college students' intellectual and identity development. Her most recent work is as contributor to the monograph for the AAC&U's The Drama of Diversity and Democracy in Higher Education. She has written numerous books, chapters and articles during the last 20 years that focus on the study of college students intellectual identity development, intercultural issues on campus and moral and ethical development. Her most requested works are "Seasons of Academic Life" and "The Multicultural Curriculum and Communities of Peace."
