NOMINATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR MELLBY LECTURERS
Please consider nominating a fellow faculty member for next year's Mellby
Lecture Series. The Mellby Lecture Series is named for Carl Mellby who
served the College as professor and administrator from 1901-1949. Dr.
Mellby's career exemplified the distinctive contribution that liberal arts
colleges make to higher education: excellence characterized by
comprehensiveness, intellectual rigor in both scholarship and teaching,
and a creative concern for interrelationships and communication amongst
disciplines. In honoring Carl Mellby with a lecture series in his name,
we honor his successors among current faculty by inviting two of them who
continue in Mellby’s tradition to reflect upon the significance of their
own professional work and developments in their chosen fields.
To nominate someone please submit a letter providing evidence of
excellence in professional activity (scholarship and/or artistic activity)
and teaching which places the nominee within the intellectual tradition
established by Mellby. The letter should thus show that the nominee’s
work is characterized by comprehensiveness, intellectual rigor in both
scholarship and teaching, and a creative concern for interrelationships
and communication across disciplines. In addition, the letter should
show that the nominee is well-situated to give an excellent presentation
to an audience who may or may not have background in the subject matter
addressed.
The letter of nomination should be at least one page and no more than two pages in length. You may nominate someone collectively, with everyone in the groug
signing the letter of nomination, or instead have several colleagues write separate
letters supporting a nomination. Please send all nominations to the Office of the Dean of the Colllege. All nominations must be received by NOON on Friday, April 11 th, 2008.
For a history of Mellby lecturers, go to:
