Katherine Bergeron

A “native daughter” of Old Lyme will be returning to her home town to reflect on current trends in higher education which will guide the next generation of “thinkers, doers, and leaders.”

President Katherine Bergeron of Connecticut College will be the speaker at the monthly dinner meeting of the Lyme-Old Lyme Chamber of Commerce. The Wednesday, May 20 gathering will begin at 6 p.m. at the Old Lyme Inn and is open to members and friends.

Bergeron’s talk is on “The Liberal Arts College in the 21st Century.”

President Bergeron is a 1976 graduate of Old Lyme High School. Her life in the town was the precursor to a distinguished academic career at Wesleyan and and Cornell, followed by faculty posts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tufts University, the University of California at Berkeley, and then at Brown University, where she later was appointed dean of the college and led numerous curricular innovations.

Since becoming president of Connecticut College on Jan. 1, 2014, she has worked to advance the design of “a new liberal arts curriculum,” designed to “produce a new generation of thinkers, doers, and leaders, prepared for the challenges of an ever more complex and dynamic future.”

Editor’s Note: To reserve dinner seating at $25 per person, contact email@lolcc.com or jancushing@att.net.  All are welcome to attend this special event — it is not limited to Chamber members.