Rust College Launches Pulitzer Prize Lecture Series Featuring Journalist E.R. Shipp
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Posted By: Reginald Culpepper on February 22, 2022 Rust College is celebrating and highlighting the work of the most accomplished luminaries from centuries' past through the present by launching the institutions’ first Pulitzer Prize lecture series. At least once per year during the Spring semester, the Pulitzer Prize Lecture Series will expose faculty, staff and students to recipients of the distinguished Pulitzer Prize award. “As Rust College continues to go through a Renaissance period, improving and expanding our academic program offerings and the enrichment opportunitites that come along with that continues to be a priority,” said Dr. Ivy R. Taylor, Rust College’s 12th and first female president. “The launch of this lecture series will complement the rigorous liberal arts curriculum within Rust College’s Division of Humanities and will offer students the opportunity to honor excellence in the arts and journalism by engaging in an interactive experience with recipients of this prestigious award,” said Taylor. The launch of this year’s Pulitzer Prize Lecture Series is the anchor program for Rust College’s Black History Month commemoration and will feature journalist E.R. Shipp. “We judge an institution by not only who it produces, but who it honors. We are honoring Professor Shipp by asking her to serve as the inaugural speaker for this distinguished lecture series due to the role she has played in using the twin engines of journalism and social justice in creating a newer, better and fairer America in much the same way as Holly Springs' native daughter, Ida B. Wells,” said Dr. Rolundus R. Rice, Vice President for Academic Affairs. President Taylor and Dr. Rice have high hopes for this lecture series as it is designed to enhance Rust College's academic profile by reminding students and stakeholders that we are involved in a never-ending crusade to cultivate students for the "Life of the mind" through meaningful co-curricular activities that promote a lifelong appreciation for scholarly inquiry. This lecture series event is free and open to the public and will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 24, 2022 on the campus of Rust College in the Doxey Morehouse Auditorium. The event will also be live streamed via Rust College’s YouTube channel. Area high school teachers are encouraged to allow their classes to tune in. About E.R. Shipp E. R. Shipp is a journalist-scholar with advanced degrees from Columbia University (M.S. in journalism, M.A. in history, J.D. in law) – and from life. She is a founding faculty member of the School of Global Journalism and Communication (SGJC) at Morgan State University, where she is an associate professor. She was born and raised in Conyers, Ga., when it was still rural and when televisions, telephones, indoor plumbing and paved roads were luxuries. She migrated to New York City in 1976 and became – forever – a denizen of the village of Harlem. If she had stuck with her original interest, home economics, she might have become a B. Smith or a Martha Stewart. Instead, she is more of an Ida B. Wells, crusading for justice as a journalist and as an educator. Prof. Shipp began her journalism career at the New York Times. She has been a reporter and editor at the Times, a columnist at the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun, an ombudsman for the Washington Post and a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of spaces. It was her work at the Daily News that led to her becoming the first Black woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1996. She is a foodie and a dedicated genealogist. She is also a lifelong learner who loves jazz, train travel, Scrabble, TV, public radio, movies, and the New York Yankees. Prof. Shipp resides in Baltimore with her two cats, Sammy Davis Jr. and Lola Falana. About Rust College Rust College is the oldest most prestigious historically black, co-educational, senior liberal arts college founded in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Offering degree programs in business, education, humanities, science and mathematics, and social science, Rust College aims to equip and inspire students for excellence and service in their communities and throughout the world. Located in Holly Springs, MS, just 35 miles southeast from Memphis, Tennessee, Rust College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the associate and baccalaureate degrees. For more information about Rust College, visit www.rustcollege.edu. If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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