Crummer Graduate School Announces Spring Leadership Lecture

Dr. Claire L. Gaudiani - Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at 11:45 a.m.

The Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College will host successful author, Dr. Claire L. Gaudiani, during the Spring Leadership Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 4, 2007, for a luncheon that begins at 11:45 a.m. A 10-year tradition, the Series invites prominent business leaders to campus to speak about their career successes and personal leadership strategies. Lecturers also discuss current industry topics and trends. These events are free and open to the public, and parking is available in the SunTrust Plaza Parking Garage (adjacent to the Rollins campus). The lecture will be held in the Galloway Room in the Mills Memorial Center at Rollins College, 1000 Holt Avenue, Winter Park. Lunch will be provided. This lecture is generously co-sponsored by the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation. To register to attend this event, please visit http://www.crummer.rollins.edu/Alumni_Relations/events/lecture/index.shtml

Claire Gaudiani is currently a professor at The George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Prior to accepting this position, she was a senior research scholar at the Yale Law School where she worked to complete a book entitled The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism. She has also authored six books and monographs and more than 80 articles and is a frequent speaker internationally on topics related to education, philanthropy, ethics and the role of colleges in civil society.

Previously, Gaudiani served for 13 years as president of Connecticut College and as the volunteer president of the non-profit New London Development Corporation, where she remains as a member of the board.

She has served on the boards of numerous for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises including the The Henry Luce Foundation, MBIA Inc., the Shubert Theatre, the Connecticut Center for School Change, Connecticut Legal Services Advisory Board, Public Radio International, and Citizens Bank. She is a trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and as a fellow of the PBK Society. She was also elected to the Century Association and she has received ten honorary doctorates. Gaudiani holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in French literature from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree from Connecticut College.