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Feb. 2, 2010
RIPON, Wis. – Kathryn M. Olson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will visit Ripon College at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9 in the East Hall Little Theatre (room 101). Olson was named the 2010 Ripon Forum on Ethics and Oratory Scholar and will deliver the Forum on Ethics and Oratory Keynote, focusing on Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Olson is director of the Rhetorical Leadership Graduate Program at UW-Milwaukee, and is a published author of several articles in the areas of rhetorical leadership in business communication environments, presidential debate issues and communication and interpersonal violence. She has received several awards for her work, including the National Communication Association Women’s Caucus Francine Merritt Award for her “outstanding contributions to the lives of women in communication.”
In April 2008, Olson presented the paper, “Rhetorical Leadership and Transferable Lessons for Successful Social Advocacy in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth” at the 32nd annual UW System Women’s Studies Conference. Olson will use this expertise to work with Ripon’s senior communication majors to help prepare their analyses of conservation communication. The senior majors will present their research at the fifth annual Forum on Ethics and Oratory Youth Summit, a one-day conference they plan and conduct for area high school students.
The public is welcome to attend this free event.
About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 371 College” by The Princeton Review; a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s; a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly; one of the 40 best liberal-arts colleges nationwide for value by U.S. News and World Report; and among the top 100 private colleges in the nation overall and for value by Forbes Magazine. For more information about Ripon College, visit www.ripon.edu.
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