Rice to host biennial De Lange Conference

Rice University Office of Public Affairs / News & Media Relations NEWS RELEASE Amy Hodges 713-348-6777 amy.hodges@rice.edu

Rice to host biennial De Lange Conference

HOUSTON – (Sept. 25, 2014) – More than a dozen of the country’s leading education experts will meet at Rice University Oct. 13-14 for the biennial De Lange Conference, “Teaching in the University of Tomorrow.”

The event is a forward-looking forum designed to contemplate the rapidly evolving changes in university teaching in response to disruptive technologies and global forces and will feature renowned educators and innovators from a variety of disciplines presenting lectures and teaching demonstrations and participating in discussions and interactive workshops.

Members of the media and Rice students, faculty and staff are invited to attend in person or via webcast to hear the questions, concerns, hopes, visions and strategies of a pre-eminent group of current or former presidents from Rice University, Columbia University, Rutgers University and Princeton University, the contributing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the presidents of ITHAKA/JSTOR and edX, the co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera and more. Registration for Rice faculty, staff and students is $10, and registration for the public is $35. The deadline for registration is Sept. 29.

The biennial De Lange Conferences, funded by the De Lange Endowment, were established by C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth in honor of Demaris’ parents, Albert and Demaris De Lange.

Media interested in attending the event may RSVP to Amy Hodges, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777 or amy.hodges@rice.edu. 

Information on the program, speakers and registration is available at http://delange.rice.edu/. 

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