Millennium Lecture Series: Michael I. Sovern, president emeritus of Columbia University
Join us as Mr. Sovern speaks about An Improbable Life: My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures which recounts Columbia’s recovery from riot to renaissance and addresses key issues in academia, such as affordability, affirmative action, lifetime tenure and the favored treatment of research over teaching.
He reports on his many and varied off-campus professional adventures, including helping the victims of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment; stepping into the chairmanship of Sotheby’s; responding to a strike by New York City’s firemen, a police riot and threats to shut down the City’s transit system; playing a role in the theater world as president of the Shubert Foundation; and chairing the Commission on Integrity in Government.
Michael I. Sovern is president emeritus of Columbia University and the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is a noted legal scholar of Labor Law and an expert in employment discrimination.
Host: Princeton Library in New York
6:30pm: Lecture
Cost: Free
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