Woodrow Wilson Fellow to visit CSM this fall

This October 24 - 29, CSM will once again welcome a Woodrow Wilson Fellow to campus for a week-long residential program of classes, seminars, workshops, lectures, and discussions. Administered by the Council for Independent Colleges in Washington, D.C., the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program brings prominent artists, diplomats, journalists, business leaders, and other professionals to campuses across the United States.

CSM’s visiting fellow for 2010 will be Shannon Brownlee, the Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. The New America Foundation works to bring exceptionally promising new voices and new ideas to the fore of our nation’s public discourse. Brownlee’s work focuses on the U.S. health care delivery system and the cultural, economic and political forces that result in poor quality and high cost. Her book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, was published in 2007 and was named the best economics book of the year by the New York Times.

The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program - created by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and administered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) in Washington, D.C. - brings prominent artists, diplomats, journalists, business leaders, and other professionals to campuses across the U.S. for a week-long residential program of classes, seminars, workshops, lectures, and information discussions. For more information, visit www.cic.edu/projects_services/visitingfellows.asp.