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SAVE THE DATE:

7th Annual Patterson Lecture

Friday, April 30, 2010,
11:30am-1:30pm

Nationwide and Ohio
Farm Bureau 4-H Center

Past Lectures

Eric Fingerhut gave the 6th Annual Patterson Lecture. Fingerhut is the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. In his lecture, Chancellor Fingerhut addressed Ohio State’s leadership role as the state’s land-grant university in the University System of Ohio.

President E. Gordon Gee gave the 5th Annual Patterson Lecture. President Gee was instrumental in the establishment of Ohio State’s outreach and engagement efforts during his first term in office. He shared his insights on Ohio State's role as a 21st century engaged land-grant university.

The 1862 Justin Morrill Land Grant Act set a forward-looking and outward-looking agenda. If Justin Morrill returned today, he would be justifiably proud of the land-grant higher education system that he created. At the same time he would also be concerned about his land-grant universities and their role in 21st century America. The choices are clear. We can continue the old land-grant model of 1862, which has been marginalized. Or we can envision a broader, bolder agenda. In this lecture, Martin Jischke proposes a new agenda for our time.

3rd Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture, May 11, 2006

Who We Are Now: The Vitality of the Land-Grant Mission in a Global Knowledge Economy by Dr. Kevin Reilly, President, University of Wisconsin System.

Link to full text; photos

Teaching, research, and public service in the land-grant tradition are vital to the fulfillment of the outreach and engagement mission of colleges and universities in the evolving knowledge economy. Through “The Wisconsin Idea,” the University of Wisconsin has been sharing knowledge and innovation to improve the state’s way of life for more than a century. Dr. Reilly discussed how higher education can thrive by viewing research, economic development, and controversy through the lens of outreach and engagement. He related this mission to "Solutions for Our Future," the new national campaign led by the American Council on Education on the public good represented by America’s colleges and universities

2nd Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture, June 2, 2005

Redefining the Land-Grant Mission—Semantics or Substance? Universities Are Realigning, Not Only Redefining Their Relationship with Society by Dr. Art Dunning, Vice-President for Public Service and Outreach, University of Georgia.

Full text in the Knowledge Bank (PDF, 338KB).

Universities like Ohio State that have expressed a commitment to redefine themselves as a model land-grant university of the 21st century must also be willing to realign themselves fundamentally.  Only by realigning human, financial, and curricular resources can universities really redefine their land-grant mission. Dr. Dunning is leading the University of Georgia’s Office of Public Service and Outreach in an effort to do just that. This lecture addressed how universities that are verbalizing the need to redefine their land-grant mission, like Ohio State and the University of Georgia, must also make substantial organizational and resource changes if they are to have substantial and sustainable impact on both the university and community. 

1st Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture, April 30, 2004

The Land-Grant University of Tomorrow by Dr. Francille Firebaugh, Cornell University

The first Patterson Lecture was given at the University-Wide Outreach and Engagement Conference, “Ohio State—The 21st Century Model for Outreach and Engagement.”