Richard J. Scaldini
Samuel M. Savin
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It is my privilege to invite the entire Arts and Sciences community to the second annual Samuel M. Savin SAGES Lecture, to be held on Thursday, March 29, 4:00 p.m., in Amasa Stone Chapel.
The lecture, titled "Leadership Intellect: The Modern Educational Imperative," will be delivered by Richard J. Scaldini, president of Myers University, who has taught an interdisciplinary SAGES seminar on the notion of change.
Dr. Scaldini's topic is especially well chosen, since the College created this lecture to honor Sam Savin's visionary leadership in developing SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship). It was during Sam's tenure as dean, in September 2001, that faculty members in the College first proposed an innovative reform of the general education curriculum, and his support was a decisive factor when our faculty approved the SAGES pilot in 2002. The Savin lecture pays tribute to Sam's essential role in inventing what is now a flourishing and nationally distinctive program.
We are very fortunate to have Richard Scaldini as this year's Savin lecturer. Dr. Scaldini has enjoyed a dual career in higher education and international investment banking. After teaching in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, he spent several years on Wall Street, serving as a managing director in corporate finance for Union Bank of Switzerland, New York. Returning to higher education in 1991, Dr. Scaldini went on to lead organizations in management education, public policy, and the liberal arts. As an adjunct professor, he taught in the management programs of The George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Washington University in St. Louis. In Ohio, he served as president of Hiram College and the Center for Leadership in Education before assuming the presidency of Myers University. Dr. Scaldini earned a bachelor's degree from Tufts University, a Ph.D. in French Literature from Yale University after studies at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and an MBA degree from Columbia University.
I am delighted to announce that Sam Savin, who is now provost and vice president for academic affairs at New College of Florida, will be in attendance on March 29. Please join us to celebrate Sam's contributions to Case Western Reserve University and to reflect on the questions of educational leadership that Dr. Scaldini will address.
Cyrus C. Taylor
Dean and Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics
College of Arts and Sciences
