WHAT:           

The University of Missouri is hosting internationally respected economist and education leader Chancellor Rebecca Blank of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Blank is expected to discuss the importance of communicating the value of flagship universities to an often skeptical public.

The presentation is part of the Distinguished Leaders in Higher Education Lecture Series at MU. 

WHO:             

Blank is a native Midwesterner who has spent time in Washington, D.C., working for three different administrations. Blank previously served as deputy secretary and acting secretary of commerce and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. From 1999 to 2008, Blank was a dean and professor of public policy and economics in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She also has served on the faculty at Northwestern and Princeton universities, and was a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy research think tank in Washington, D.C.

Blank earned her bachelor’s in economics from the University of Minnesota and her doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

WHEN:          

6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20.

WHERE:        

Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union, 518 Hitt St.

NOTE:            

Register for the event here. Parking is available in the Hitt Street Parking Structure on level 4, after 5:30 p.m.