Bastian Lecture: Bryan Alexander

Join us for our second

Speaker Series

event, to celebrate the inauguration of

President Sylvia Torti!

Bastian Lecture will take place from 5-6 PM. Reception to follow from 6-7 PM.

Bryan Alexander is

an

award-winning , internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consul tant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education's future.

He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997, with a dissertation on doppelgangers in Romantic-era fiction and poetry. Then Bryan taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at

Centenary College of Louisiana . There he also pioneered multi-campus interdisciplinary classes, while organizing an information literacy initiative.

From 2002 to 2014 Bryan worked with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), a non-profit working to help small colleges and universities best integrate digital technologies. With NITLE he held several roles, including co-director of a regional education and technology center, director of emerging technologies, and senior fellow. Over those years Bryan helped develop and support the nonprofit, grew peer networks, consulted, and conducted a sustained research agenda. In 2013 Bryan launched a business,

Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC . Through BAC he consults throughout higher education in the United States and abroad.