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Educator Parker J. Palmer to Give Davis Lecture Sept. 18

GREENSBORO – Writer, teacher and activist Dr. Parker J. Palmer, the author of “The Courage to Teach,” will speak on “The Recovery of Community in Higher Education: Focus on Teaching and Learning” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Palmer will be delivering the Mildred B. Davis Memorial lecture in the Elliott University Center Auditorium. The free event is open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the speech.

 Palmer is the senior associate at the American Association for Higher Education and the senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute, a foundation that explores the relationships among body, mind and spirit. He earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in sociology at the University of California at Berkley, and has taught at Georgetown University, Beloit College and Pendle Hill, a Quaker center for study and contemplation.

The author of six books, he describes “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life” as a book for “teachers who have good days and bad, and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from doing something someone loves.”

 During the past 10 years, Palmer has worked as an itinerant teacher in workshops and seminars across the country. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, CBS News and National Public Radio. He also has been recognized with six honorary degrees, and has been given many awards, including two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association.

Born in 1920, Mildred B. Davis joined the faculty at UNCG in 1972. She served as a liaison representative to the Home Economics Alumni Association and as an editor of the School of Home Economics Newsletter. The School of Human Environmental Sciences created the lecture series to honor Davis who died in 1982.

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