Wallace House Events

KWF EVENT

September 19, 2013

Liz McMillen, KWF alumna and editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, returned to Wallace House to deliver the 28th Annual Graham Hovey Lecture.

McMillen's topic, “What is College For, Anyway?” was a big draw for Knight-Wallace Fellows, alumni andmembers of the University of Michigan community. She touched on the changes in higher education over the past two decades and examined the worth of a college degree today.

McMillen became editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education in August 2011. Previously, she was a senior editor supervising the paper’s coverage of scholarship, research and publishing and reported on faculty issues. She is also the founding editor of the Chronicle Careers website. As a Knight-Wallace Fellow at Michigan (1997-1998), McMillen studied the culture wars between journalism and academics.

Open to the public, the lecture highlights the benefits of sabbatical study at the University of Michigan and honors the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980-1986. A reception, hosted by Regent Andrea Fischer Newman, current chair of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, followed the lecture.