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L. Jackson Newell Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellows

This fellowship and lecture series allows us to continue L. Jackson Newell’s tradition of honoring liberal arts and science faculty with a deep passion for their work and a desire to communicate their work in the public interest.

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In 2019, Honors faculty created a fellowship and lecture series as a public showcase for the incredible work of arts and sciences faculty across campus. Faculty named the lecture series after L. Jackson (Jack) Newell, given his long-standing commitments to scholarly and creative depth and engaged, ethical leadership. This fellowship and lecture series allows us to continue Jack’s tradition of honoring liberal arts and science faculty with a deep passion for their work and a desire to communicate their work in the public interest.

About L. Jackson (Jack) Newell

Jack Newell, a historian and philosopher of higher education, joined the University of Utah as professor of higher education in 1974. He served for sixteen years as Dean of Undergraduate Studies. In that role, Jack relentlessly pursued passionate liberal arts and science faculty and persuaded them to teach undergraduate courses, taking students with them to the frontiers of our knowledge. Jack is a founder of the Clemente Program in the Humanities, and a tireless advocate for engaged citizenship, including during his tenure as President of Deep Springs College.

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2019:

Scott Black

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Inaugural Lecture: This year’s L. Jackson Newell fellow is Scott Black, Professor and Chair of the English department. His September 19 talk will be about Ursula K. LeGuin’s book “Five ways to forgiveness” – which was the summer read for incoming students. His talk outlines issues in the control (or lack of control) humans may have in relation to the natural world, and the ways that LeGuin’s fiction illuminate the limits of control and the need for a different relationship with our world, one in which technological advances are not going to save things in the utopian sense in which we may have imagined the future.

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