The Invention of a College with Peter Wood
Join President Gregory A. Thornbury and the King’s community on Tuesday, April 18 in The King's College City Room for the Second Annual Founders’ Day lecture with Dr. Peter Wood.
Join President Gregory A. Thornbury and the King’s community on Tuesday, April 18 in The King’s College City Room for the Second Annual Founders’ Day lecture with Dr. Peter Wood, former provost of The King’s College. Dr. Wood will address episodes from the early years of The King’s College’s reestablishment: the near-death experience with the New York Board of Regents; the closing of the school of education; the creation of PPE; the exodus of the unready; the founding of Interregnum; the rise of The King’s English; and the great grading scandal.
Peter Wood is a former provost of The King’s College (2005-2007), Peter Wood was a professor of anthropology and a senior administrator at Boston University. Author of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003) and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2006), he currently serves as president of the National Association of Scholars.
Peter Wood will be speaking Founder’s Day, Tuesday, April 18 at 12:15PM – 1:15PM in the City Room.
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