This fall, Cleveland State is offering 5 CSU students and 3 CSU faculty/staff free admission to the seven City Club Lectures featured below. Each lecture includes lunch, lecture and great networking opportunities with Cleveland community leaders.

Here’s how it works:

1. Register online for the lectures you are interested in attending.
2. Registration is first-come first-served.
3. As many students, faculty and staff will be accommodated as possible, however you are encouraged to register for all lectures you are interested in attending as there are alternates selected.
4. Selected individuals (5 students and 3 faculty/staff) and alternates (2 students, 2 faculty/staff) will be notified by email and sent detailed instructions.
5. Read the instructions carefully. No City Club tickets are required. Names of selected individuals will be sent to City Club.
6. If you cannot attend, please call (216) 687-2048 as soon as possible so that alternates can be contacted.
7. At the end of the fall semester, attendees will receive an online survey that we encourage you to complete.

PARTNERSHIP GOALS:

1. Engage CSU students with Cleveland professionals
2. Provide CSU students and CSU faculty opportunities to interact professionally
3. Acquaint CSU students with key experts in politics, economics, world and contemporary issues
4. Teach CSU students how to initiate connections with key Cleveland professionals
5. Encourage students to join The City Club as a preface to their professional life in Cleveland

Networking creates "social capital" which refers to valuable connections within and between social networks. Just  as a screwdriver (physical capital) or a college education (human capital) can increase productivity (both individual and collective), so do social contacts affect the productivity of individuals and groups".(Putnam, Robert. (2000), "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" (Simon and Schuster).

Read more in this Tips Sheet by Dr. Martin Plax, CSU Political Science Faculty.

If you're unable to attend the City Club Lectures, listen to them on the radio! The City Club Media Broadcast times, dates, and stations are listed here.

Learn more about the City Club and read the front page article in the City Club Newsletter.

 

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You must register online and receive confirmation before attending these lectures:

SERIES Check out the amazing lectures coming to you this SPRING 2009 at The City Club of Cleveland. (All lectures eligible for free student attendance are on FRIDAY at noon at The City Club of Cleveland 850 Euclid Ave, The City Club Building, 2nd Floor)

 

	Friday, September 4, 2009 12:00 PM Dr. Lester Lefton President, Kent State University
Lefton is the current President of Kent State University. He has 35 years of experience in higher education, having served for 25 years at a public institution and 9 at private institutions. During his career, he has been a psychology professor, dean and provost, as well as author of an internationally best-selling psychology textbook. All seats are full

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	Friday, September 11, 2009 12:00 PM Annette Gornon-Reed Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law at New York Law School since 1992 and winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W. W. Norton, 2008), is recognized as one of our country’s most distinguished presidential scholars. All seats are full

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	Friday, September 18, 2009 12:00 PM Sister Helen Prejean Author: Death of Innocents, An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions and Dead Men Walking
Sponsored by the 2009 Key Bank Diversity Through Leadership Series Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ (b. April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana)  is a vowed Roman Catholic religious sister, one of the Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty . All seats are full

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	Friday, October 9, 2009 12:00 PM Marc Morial President, National Urban League
Selected in May of 2003 as the 8th President and CEO of the nation's largest and oldest civil rights and direct services organization empowering African Americans and other ethnic communities, Morial has helped thrust the League into the forefront of major public policy issues,research and effective community-based solutions. All seats are full

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	Friday, October 16, 2009 12:00 PM Beth Mooney Vice Chair, KeyCorp The Ways Women Lead
KeyCorp Vice Chair Beth Mooney leads the company's Community Bank, which includes Retail Banking, Business Banking, Commercial Middle Market Banking, Wealth Management, Private Banking, Key Investment Services and KeyBank Mortgage. All seats are full

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Friday, November 6, 2009 12:00 PM Barbara Coombs Lee President, Compassion & Choices End of Life Issues

Barbara Coombs Lee is President of Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding and protecting the rights nof the terminally ill. She practiced as a nurse and physician assistant for 25 years before beginning a career in law and health policy. Since then she has devoted her professional life to individual choice and empowerment in health care. As a private attorney, as counsel to the Oregon State Senate, as a managed care executive and finally as Chief Petitioner for Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, she has championed initiatives that enable individuals to consider a full range of choices and be full participants in their health care decisions. All seats are full

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Friday, November 13, 2009 12:00 PM Rosabeth Moss Kanter Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Author, The Vanguard: How Principle-Led Companies are Changing the World of Business (and Maybe the World)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research). In 2002 she was named "Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year" by the World Teleport Association. All seats are full

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PARTNERSHIP:

Cleveland State University provides a real-world education to its undergraduate and graduate student population. Students are engaged in and out of the classroom to develop and learn about themselves and the world around them. With over 85% of CSU graduates remaining in the Cleveland area following graduation, it is advantageous to involve them in the Greater Cleveland community through leadership, service, and professional bridge-building opportunities.

The City Club of Cleveland located in the heart of downtown Cleveland at 850 Euclid Ave in The City Club Building, 2nd Floor and was established to encourage new ideas and a free exchange of thought, and is the oldest continuous free speech forum in the country, renowned for its tradition of debate and discussion. The mission of The City Club is to inform, educate and inspire citizens by presenting significant ideas and providing opportunities for dialogue in a collegial setting. Hour-long Friday lectures featuring world leaders in politics, economics, international affairs, leadership, etc. provide Cleveland leaders timely information and dialogue about the world around them.
                        
This partnership between Cleveland State University and The City Club seamlessly connects academic affairs and student affairs with Cleveland community professional development resources to allow students the opportunity to engage with CSU faculty, new and seasoned professionals from the Cleveland area, and world leaders and experts in a mutually beneficial educational and professional relationship.

Our thanks to Alvin and Laura Siegal for their generous donation to the Cleveland State University students to support their attendance and participation in the City Club of Cleveland lecture series and to the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences for their partnership.

Laura and Alvin A. Siegal
Both Laura and Alvin are native Clevelanders who have been active in the Greater Cleveland community. Laura has worked professionally as a radio and television spokeswoman and served as recording secretary of the Cleveland Local Chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. She is an honorary trustee of The Cleveland Museum of Art, a trustee of the Boca Raton Museum of Art and a Siegal College Board Member. A former trustee of Great Lakes Theatre Festival, she is currently co‐chair, with her husband, of the Advisory Council. Alvin is past president of the Warrensville Center Synagogue, has been chairman of the Cleveland Israel Bond Campaign and the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, recently renamed the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies, and has been trustee of Menorah Park and the Jewish Community Federation. He was the recipient in 1997 of the Distinguished Leadership Award granted by the Cleveland Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. He was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman emeritus of the Leader Mortgage Company, was president of the Cleveland and the Ohio Mortgage Bankers, and treasurer of Mortgage Bankers of America. In 1985, Alvin received the Mortgage Bankers Association’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. Between 1977 and 1996, Alvin ran 17 New York City Marathon races and 6 Cleveland Marathons. During World War II, Alvin spent 33 months in the U.S. Army. Together Laura and Alvin Siegal have developed and maintained the radio station at Menorah Park from which special programs are created and broadcast to and by residents of Menorah Park. They also sponsor a regular lecture at Siegal College at which outstanding and often controversial speakers appear. Alvin has been a City Club member and supporter for more than 35 years.