Tonight, the Second Annual Baruch College Executives on Campus Reception
features as guest speaker one of the nation’s foremost educators and intellectuals,
Vartan Gregorian, in conversation with Myrna Chase, dean of Baruch’s Weisman
School of Arts and Sciences, discussing the contemporary utility of a liberal arts
education, both for careers and for life.

Entitled “Liberal Arts Education: A Conversation with Vartan Gregorian”, the
discussion takes place at 7:15 pm on Tuesday Sept. 21st, in the Newman
Conference Center, which is located at 151 East 25th Street, on the 7th Floor.

Please make sure students and faculty know about this event. Seating is limited so
please RSVP to register at the Office of College Advancement RSVP line, 212-802-
2851, or e-mail [log in to unmask]

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Myrna Chase is professor of history and dean of the Weisman School of Arts and
Sciences at Baruch College.

Vartan Gregorian is president of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was previously president of Brown University and of
the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters, he is one of the nation’s most respected and frequently honored
educators and intellectuals. These honors include the National Humanities Medal,
which President Clinton  awarded him in 1998, and the Medal of Freedom, the
United States’ highest civilian award, conferred by President Bush in 2004.
Gregorian currently serves on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, Human Rights Watch, the Museum of Modern Art and the McGraw-Hill
Companies. He is the author of The Road to Home: My Life and Times; Islam: A
Mosaic, Not a Monolith; and Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform
and Modernization, 1880-1946.

Baruch College’s Executives on Campus Program (EOC), sponsor of this event,
brings executives from America’s leading corporations as well as some of the
nation’s premier entrepreneurial successes into the classroom where students and
faculty benefit from their insight and real-world experiences. This year, the EOC also
has introduced the Tuesday Career Hour, a series of career-related panels for
students, held in the Vertical Campus Conference Center during the free hour from 1
pm to 2 pm each Tuesday during the fall and spring semesters.