UO PRESIDENT TO DESCRIBE KEY ROLE OF EDUCATION IN NEW MILLENNIUM AT ASHLAND LUNCHEON, May 14
May 13, 1999
Contact Gaye Vandermyn (541) 346-3133
WHAT University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer will speak to the Rotary International District 5110 Annual Conference, May 13-16. about the growing importance of higher education in new and challenging times.
WHEN 12:30 p.m. -2 p.m. Friday, May 14
WHERE Ballroom, Windmill Inn, 2525 Ashland St., Ashland
BACKGROUND
In his speech "In the Year 2999," Frohnmayer will address how today’s decisions about education will affect the way future citizens look back on us in 1,000 years.
"Today, we look back at the past 1,000 years and thank many far-sighted people for the efforts that made positive differences in our lives," Frohnmayer says. "Key to those efforts are the advances in knowledge and education that provided people with the learning to better understand our world and make important contributions to our lives."
Frohnmayer also will stress that effective public policy toward education must not pit K-12 against higher education. Rather, it must provide support for both, seeing each as a vital part of the legacy we are building for the next 1,000 years.
A native Oregonian, Frohnmayer is the 15th president of the University of Oregon, the state’s 123-year-old center for liberal arts, science and professional studies. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 1994.
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