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As a service to the community,
all CIS events are free and open to the public.
For nearly 30 years the Critical Issues Symposium (CIS) has been
an integral part of the Hope College academic landscape. A committee
of faculty, staff, and students, in consultation with President
Bultman, selects one topic to focus on each year. Hope College takes
this academic endeavor seriously enough to cancel classes for a full day each fall semester in order to allow the campus community to fully participate
in examining the topic at hand. CIS has sponsored international
leaders in a variety of fields, but also calls on the resources
of the West Michigan and Hope College communities to provide input
on our discussions.
This year, our focus is Water. |
| Availability of fresh water is one of the most pressing world issues of our time.
In some parts
of the world women and children spend five hours each day
searching for water. For those
who live in a place like Holland, Michigan,
it is hard to imagine water scarcity. Neither do we
pay attention to the
pollutants which daily poison our water sources, nor do we consider
the interest that other States have in taking water from the Great
Lakes region to meet their
thirsty, growing populations. We invite your participation at what promises to be a
thought-provoking and timely Critical Issues Symposium. |
October 6-7, 2009 |
March 8, 2010 |
We are fortunate to have two world-class water experts, Peter Gleick and Joan Rose, as keynote speakers. Please follow the links for more information about these outstanding scholars and their work. In addition, several focus sessions are planned, to further engage us on the issues raised by our keynote speakers, as well as departmental sessions on how water issues impact the work of professors and students in the fields of Art, Communications, English, Engineering, Political Science, Sociology, and Women's Studies. Please navigate to the Schedule area for more information about these sessions.
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Robert Glennon
Dimnent Chapel
7:00 pm
Robert Glennon is the author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, which was published in April 2009 by Island Press.
Click here for more information about Dr. Glennon and the upcoming lecture.
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NEW: Sustainable Hope Water Bottles
Hope's Sustainability Advisory Committee and Environmental Issues Group would like to
encourage the use of water bottles on campus. The new bottles are hard plastic,
imprinted with the sustainable Hope logo.
Available for purchase in the Bookstore,
and
during lunch at CIS at the EIG Table
in the hallway between Maas and Phelps Dining
To encourage the Hope community to buy and use these bottles,
Dining Services has agreed to some incentives for using the water bottle to obtain your drinks:
Kletz soft drinks, iced tea, lemonade and Crystal Light will cost $.75.
Kletz juice will cost $1.50 and DeVos soft drinks will cost $.75.
Thanks for your participation.
Contact
If you have any questions about CIS please feel free to contact
either:
Alfredo Gonzales, Associate Provost and CIS Co-Chair
616-395-7080
gonzales@hope.edu
Derek Emerson, Director of Events and Conferences and CIS Co-Chair
616-395-7893
emerson@hope.edu
Picture Credit to Katherine Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Art at Hope College from her Seascape Series
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