Honors Forum Lecture Series for 2001-2002
This year's Lecture Series got off to a great start. A large crowd of just under 500 students, faculty, and administrators gathered to hear Paul Loeb speak about the individual's role in the community. Mr. Loeb's powerful message could not have come at a more appropriate time than following the tragic events of September 11th. He challenged us to work to create a more just world and to seek justice not vengeance to break the "cycles of indiscriminate violence." He told us never to forget the "lessons of citizen empowerment" and the difference an individual can make.
An equally enthusiastic crowd met Terry Goddard on October 17th, as he further developed the theme of "community." The former Mayor of Phoenix spoke about the need to create communities within which people can live enriched lives. He talked about the need for citizen involvement in the rebuilding of their communities and the importance of finding "productive outlets for their talents" in working with their city and significant social, historical, and arts planning groups to improve the physical environment as well as the social and intellectual.
Online discussions on Loeb and Goddard lectures are available at from the Honors web site.
All Honors Forum Lectures are held at the Phoenix College Bulpitt Auditorium, starting at 7:30 p.m. The next lecture is on November 14, 2001. Pat Mora will address the topic of "Building Community through Literature and Literacy."
2001-2002 Theme: Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Author of poetry, nonfiction, and children's books, Ms. Pat Mora is an advocate for the building of community through literature and literacy. A native of El Paso, Texas, the border city to which her grandparents came during the Mexican Revolution, she speaks often at conferences, universities, and schools about creative writing, leadership, and multicultural education.
Ms. Mora is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso. She was the Garrey Carruthers Chair in Honors, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, fall 1999. She has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kellogg Foundation. Among her other awards are the Pellicer-Frost '99 Bi-national Poetry Award, four Southwest Book Awards, and the Premio Aztlan Literature Award.
Ms. Mora's fifth poetry collection is the illustrated volume, Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, French and Bengali. Her most recent book is Love to Mamá: A Celebration of Mothers, an edited poetry collection. Pat actively supports having April 30th celebrated as Día de los niños / Día de los libros, a celebration of children, books, languages, and cultures.
For more information about her and the books she has written, see her web site.
Dr. William Schulz is the Executive Director of Amnesty International. He is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister.As President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, Dr. Schulz first became involved in a variety of international and social justice causes. He has been an outspoken advocate for women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and racial justice. He has led missions to improve the rights of religious and ethnic minorities in Romania and to investigate atrocities committed in Liberia. As Executive Director of Amnesty International, he has fought for human rights protections as part of the peace process in Ireland.
Dr. Schulz has served on the boards of People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Communitarian Network and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, among others. He has appeared frequently on radio and television and has authored several books. His most recent publication, coauthored by Mary Robinson, is entitled In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits all Americans.
Dr. Schulz is a graduate of Oberlin College. He holds an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago and an M.A. degree and a Doctorate of Ministry from the Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago.
On February 20, 2002, Dr. Schulz will address the topic of "Human Rights as the Moral Conscience of Community."
Mr. Chris Eyre, a young filmmaker from Klamath Falls, Oregon, brings an exciting and fresh perspective to the portrayal of American Indians in mainstream Hollywood films. While still in college, he began receiving awards for his filmmaking. His short film, Tenacity, won the top honor as best film at New York University's First Run Film Festival. Also, in 1995, he was a Sundance Institute Film Fellow invited to the screenwriters, producers, and filmmaker's laboratories, where he directed four scenes for his first feature film, Smoke Signals.
In 1996, Sundance Film Festival named him the U.S. Winner of the Cinema 100/Sundance International Award, which honors the next generation of visionaries in film. Smoke Signals went on to win the Audience Award and Filmmaker's Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. It was chosen to open the prestigious "New Directors/New Films" event at the Modern Museum of Art in New York City. After opening across the country, it was considered the first feature film by an American Indian director to receive major distribution and among the top five independent films of 1998.
Mr. Eyre, an M.F.A. graduate of New York University, is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. His company, Riverhead Entertainment, develops feature films, commercials, and documentaries.
On March 20th, Mr. Eyre will speak on the topic of "Indian Country: Realistic Portrayals of Home."
Dr. Kimberly S. Young has been called "the world's foremost Cyberpsychologist" by the media, and is an internationally known researcher, author, and speaker on the impact of technology on human behavior. Dr. Young has testified in both state and federal courts regarding her pioneer research and before the Child Online Protection Act Congressional Commission.
She has published numerous articles about e-behavior and authored Caught in the Net, a groundbreaking book on Internet addiction recovery, already translated in four languages. As an Internet strategist and certified web developer, Dr. Young is a sought after consultant on leadership for employees' effective use of technology. Her work has been featured in hundreds of newsprint publications worldwide including major articles in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time. She is also a frequent media commentator for radio and television programs including NPR, the BBC, CNBC News, Fox News, Good Morning America, 20/20, The Leeza Show, and ABC's World News Tonight. Her latest book, Tangled in the Web, is scheduled for publication August 2001.
Dr. Young, a licensed psychologist, is executive director of the Center for On-Line Addiction. For more information about Dr. Young and her works, see her web site.
Dr. Young's address "Tangled in the Web: The Impact of the Internet on Individuals, Families and Communities," will be held on April 17, 2002.
For more information on the Lecture Series and the Honors Program, see:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/honors/
College Honors Coordinators
- Chair, Honors Coordinators' Council:
Betsy Hertzler, Mesa Community College
- Chandler-Gilbert Community College: Kim Chuppa-Cornell
- Estrella Mountain Community College: Conrad Bayley
- GateWay Community College: Alex Backus
- Glendale Community College: Mary Leskovsky
- Mesa Community College: Doug Conway, Betsy Hertzler
- Paradise Valley Community College: Linda Knoblock
- Phoenox College: Alan Haffa
- Rio Salado College: Barry Wukasch
- Scottsdale Community College: Harry Hude
- South Mountain Community College: Matt Smith
District Honors Support
- mcli: Margaret Hogan
- mcli: Patty Couty
- mcli: Janet Sieradzki
 Betsy Hertzler, Ed.D., (Mesa Community College)
and
Margaret Hogan, Ed.D., mcli
Honors Program
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/honors/
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