HARVARD LECTURER WILL VISIT SOUTHEAST CAMPUS

A senior lecturer at Harvard who is an authority on undergraduate education will visit Southeast Missouri State University, Sept. 30 through Oct. 1.

Arthur E. Levine, educational chairman of the Institute for Educational Management in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will present a lecture on "changes in student attitudes" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in Academic Auditorium. The public is invited. A reception will follow at 9 p.m. in the University Center.

"Dr. Levine has spent a considerable amount of time studying attitudes of students," said John Hinni, dean of Southeast's School of University Studies.

"He believes that students' attitudes are important in their academic success," said Hinni.

Students in the 1960s had heroes, but the heroes and dreams of students in the 1970s and early 1980s died, Hinni said. Students in the 1980s became part of the "me" generation in which students had no heroes and were focused on benefiting themselves, he said.

That's one of the premises of Levine's book, "When Dreams and Heroes Died," said Hinni.

Hinni said today's students are more altruistic. "They seem to be accepting greater responsibility for their community and society."

In addition to his public lecture while at Southeast, Levine will lead a session on Oct. 1 involving 40 faculty members, 40 students and 20 student affairs professionals.

A champion of a liberal education, Levine has written a number of books on the subject. He was president of Bradford College in Haverhill, Mass., from 1982 to 1989.