93-10-20 NEH Chairman Sheldon Hackney to Speak at U.Va. Oct. 25

NEH CHAIRMAN SHELDON HACKNEY TO SPEAK AT U.VA. OCT. 25

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 20 -- Sheldon Hackney, chairman of
the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak at the
University of Virginia in the Rotunda Dome Room at 4 p.m. Monday,
Oct. 25.  His talk, on the subject of ethnic and national identity
and titled "Who Are We?" is open to the public.  Early arrival is
advised.
     Hackney was confirmed by the Senate in August to head the
federal humanities agency after a debate over his handling of
recent speech-rights controversies at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was president for 12 years.  With a $177
million budget, the NEH is the largest single supporter of
humanities projects in the country.
     Under Hackney's leadership, Penn conducted one of the most
successful fund-raising campaigns in higher education history --
generating more than $1 billion in less than four years.  During
his presidency, minority enrollment at the school grew from 13
percent to 30 percent, international enrollment jumped from 1.2
percent to more than 10 percent, sponsored research doubled and the
endowment quintupled.
     An award-winning author on the history of the South, Hackney
regularly taught undergraduate courses at Penn.  Among his books is
"Populism to Progressivism in Alabama," which in 1970 won the
American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge prize for
best book on American history and the Southern Historical
Association's Charles Sydnor award.
     He has served on numerous boards, including those of the Afro-
American Cultural Museum in Philadelphia; the American Council on
Education; the Association of American Universities; the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (chairman); the
Consortium on Financing Higher Education (chairman); the
Educational Testing Service; the Journal of Southern History; the
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; the National Collegiate
Athletic Association Presidents' Commission; and the Rockefeller
Commission on the Humanities.
     Before going to Penn, Hackney served as president of Tulane
University for five years.  From 1965 to 1975, he was on the
faculty of Princeton University, serving as provost from 1972 to
1975.
     Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1933, Hackney earned a B.A. at
Vanderbilt University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale.
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                                                 October 19, 1993

 
Karen Castle, Office Services Specialist, University News Office
P.O. Box 9018, Booker House, Charlottesville, VA  22906
(804) 924-7116, kac@virginia.edu

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Wed, 20 Oct 93 10:43:19 EDT]