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President of American Philosophical Association to give Transylvania’s 2013 Rick O’Neil Philosophy Lecture

Posted on February 18, 2013July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Linda Martín Alcoff, president of the American Philosophical Association, professor and author, will deliver the 2013 Rick O’Neil lecture, “Social Identities and the Question of Realism: Against Post-Ethnic Utopias,” at Transylvania University Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Martín Alcoff is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She has degrees from Georgia State University and Brown University and has held positions at Syracuse University, SUNY Stony Brook and Kalamazoo College and visiting appointments at Cornell, Brown and the University of Aarhus. Her writings have focused on social identity and race, epistemology and politics, sexual violence, Foucault, and Latino issues in philosophy. She has written two books, “Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self,” and “Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory.” She is currently at work on two new books: a book on sexual violence and an account of future of white identity. Also forthcoming is an anthology co-edited with Jack Caputo on the politics of love. She is a co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. The lecture is sponsored by Transylvania’s philosophy program and Sophia, the university’s philosophy society, in honor of the late Transylvania philosophy professor Rick O’Neil. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

Paul Finkelman, national expert in American legal history and constitutional history, to give John Marshall Harlan lecture March 5, at 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

Posted on February 14, 2013July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—American legal history and constitutional law expert Paul Finkelman will give the winter 2013 John Marshall Harlan Lecture at Transylvania University on March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the William T. Young Campus Center. The lecture, “‘But I need Kentucky’: Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Importance of the Bluegrass State,” is free and open to the public. The campus center is located on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street. Finkelman is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow at the Government Center at Albany Law School in New York. He is the author of more than 150 scholarly articles and more than 30 books. His op-eds and shorter pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and on the Huffington Post. He was recently named the ninth most cited legal historian in Brian Leieter’s Law School Rankings. Finkelman is an expert in constitutional history and constitutional law, freedom of religion, the law of slavery, civil liberties, the American Civil War and legal issues surrounding baseball. He has written extensively on Thomas Jefferson and on Abraham Lincoln. He was the chief expert witness in the Alabama Ten Commandments monument case, and his scholarship on religious monuments in public spaces was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Van Orden v. Perry (2005). His scholarship on the Second Amendment has also been cited by the Supreme Court. In 2002

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Transylvania University Local Food Fair Friday, Feb. 15; free and open to the public

Posted on February 12, 2013July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Lexington community is invited to stop by Transylvania University’s second annual Local Food Fair Friday, Feb. 15, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Clive M. Beck Athletic Center, at the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street. Farmers from Elmwood Stock, Triple J, Gaffney, Stone Hedge, Acres of Harvest, McMaine’s Riverhaven and Greeley Farms will be available to talk about how their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs work. Visitors will learn how they can buy seasonal produce directly from local farmers. The farmers will also have items for sale. CSA customers pledge to support a farm by purchasing a “share” of harvested products, usually early in the year. Then, throughout the growing season, customers receive a box or basket of seasonal produce or other products from the farm. CSA programs typically offer produce, but they may occasionally offer eggs, meat or dairy products. Marksbury Farm, Seedleaf Farm, the Good Foods Co-op, the Bluegrass Farmer’s Market, the Lexington Farmer’s Market and Food Chain will also be present at the event, which is sponsored by Transylvania’s Office of Sustainability, is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available for purchase. Free parking is available. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Angela Dossett at (859) 608-9218.

Transylvania Board of Trustees approves strategic plan: Transylvania 2020

Posted on February 11, 2013July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Transylvania University Board of Trustees has approved the university’s strategic plan: Transylvania 2020, a comprehensive roadmap for the next seven years that encompasses enrollment growth, expansion of campus facilities, and enhancements to academic and student life programs. “The vision of this plan is that Transylvania will be recognized as one of the nation’s finest liberal arts colleges,” said President R. Owen Williams. “The plan builds on the national reputation for excellence that Transylvania already enjoys and takes the university to an even higher level.” Transylvania 2020 is organized around four primary goals: enhance innovative thinking, develop the whole person, promote civic engagement and social justice, and enhance campus infrastructure sustainably. Among highlights of the specific strategies are a planned enrollment growth from the present size of approximately 1,100 to 1,500; the addition of residence, academic, student life, and athletics infrastructure; creation of an experimental pedagogy laboratory to explore innovations in teaching and learning; expansion of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programs; and a commitment to serving as a model of sustainable land management and development in an urban setting. An over-arching goal is for the energy and scope of the plan to help move Transylvania from its present status as a top 75 national liberal arts college into the top 50 ranks. “The most valuable aspect of this strategic planning exercise was the process we went through, which made the board fully analyze the college’s current situation and where it

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Transylvania’s student newspaper, The Rambler, wins multiple awards at Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association conference

Posted on February 8, 2013July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Rambler, Transylvania University’s student newspaper, took home 27 awards from the 2013 Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) Awards competition. It competes in the KIPA’s B Division for schools with 5,000 or fewer students. Sports editor Cory Collins, a senior from Vanceburg, Ky., led the way for the staff with seven individual awards, including both first and third places in the Sports News and Sports Feature categories. Also winning first place awards were designer Rachel Smith, a junior from Mayfield, Ky., in Opinion Page Layout; editor-in-chief Jake Hawkins, a senior from Princeton, Ky., in Editorial Writing; managing editor Molly Crain, a senior from Flemingsburg, Ky., in News Headline; and Andrew Williams ’12 in Comic Strips. “I’m really happy that we’ve been able to continue a tradition of excellence at the KIPA Awards,” Hawkins said. “I’m especially happy for Cory Collins for taking essentially every award for the sports category. The awards are only a small symbol of the hard work our staff puts into this paper on a weekly basis.” The Rambler was founded in 1915 and publishes every Thursday during the academic year. Students volunteer their time to write and edit stories, shoot photos and design the newspaper. “I couldn’t be more proud of what they’ve have accomplished, not just in terms of awards, but also in producing a quality newspaper every single week,” student media advisor Tyler Young said. “These are all students with full-time schedules studying

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