Education leader and C-SPAN founder to speak at Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education will participate Feb. 27 in a question-and-answer session moderated by the CEO and founder of C-SPAN at Purdue University.
Purdue alumnus Anthony Wilder Miller will take questions from guests attending a luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Purdue Memorial Union's North Ballroom. Brian Lamb, who also is a Purdue alumnus, will moderate the session. The forum and luncheon are free and open to the public, but tickets are required due to limited seating. Ticket requests can be made by sending an email with the attendee's full name, affiliation and number of tickets, to projectimpact@purdue.edu. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come basis with an email confirmation from Project Impact.
The event is organized by Project Impact, an initiative on politics, issues, media and technology, and is part of the program's yearlong series, "2012: It's Not Just Politics, It's Our Future," leading up to the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The program was founded and is directed by Carolyn Curiel, a clinical professor in communication and former U.S. ambassador and senior White House aide.
"These forums are only possible because of the hard work of some exceptional students from across campus," Curiel said. "We also have the generous support of sponsors throughout Purdue and the community and many participants who have been wonderful audiences for our guests."
As with previous forums in the series, this one will be interactive. Audience members will be polled on higher education and other issues. Results of the polling will be instantly displayed. Lamb will moderate questions for Miller that come from the audience or through Twitter via @Project_Impact.
Miller received his bachelor's degree from Purdue in industrial engineering in 1989. He joined the Department of Education in 2009 as deputy secretary and chief operating officer. Prior to his work in the Obama administration, he worked in the private sector and in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Lamb, who is from Lafayette, earned his bachelor's degree in speech in 1963 and received an honorary doctorate from Purdue in 1986. He founded C-SPAN - Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network - in 1977, and the network's initial telecasts of the U.S. House of Representatives commenced in 1979. Last year, Purdue named its communication program in his honor, the Brian Lamb School of Communication.
Lamb also will visit Curiel's classes on politics and news media at 9-10:15 a.m. on Feb. 28 in Lawson Building, Room 1142. A continental breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. Seating and breakfast for the public will be available on a first-come basis.
Project Impact will continue this semester with two more events. A March 22 panel discussion on social media and democracy will feature Susan Swain, C-SPAN co-president, as moderator; Jonathan Perelman, global lead at Industry Relations for Google; and Adam Sharp, Government and Politics lead for Twitter. On April 5, Al Hunt, the Washington executive editor for Bloomberg News, will lead a panel that will include Margaret Carlson, columnist for Bloomberg, and news commentator Michael Kinsley in a discussion on jobs and the economy.
The Project Impact series is made possible through support from the colleges of Education, Engineering and Technology, the Brian Lamb School of Communication, the Office of the Provost, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), the Krannert School of Management, International Programs, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, the department of History and Political Science, the Purdue Alumni Association, the Purdue Exponent, and members of the Lafayette community.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Carolyn Curiel at curiel@purdue.edu