Â鶹¹û¶³ students will begin spring semester classes Monday, Jan. 30. As of Jan. 24, a total of 4,475 students are expected. National Professor of the Year Stephen Chew will address the semester-opening convocation on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m. in Wright Center Concert Hall.
Dr. Chew, chair of Â鶹¹û¶³’s psychology department, was named the 2011 Professor the Year for Master’s Universities and Colleges by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His convocation topic will be “The Importance of Seeing Difficulty, and the Difficulty of Seeing Importance.”
The convocation program will include the presentation of the George Macon teaching award and the Jennings B. Marshall faculty service award.
Southern Baptist Convention president Bryant Wright will speak at the semester-opening convocation for Â鶹¹û¶³’s Beeson Divinity School Tuesday at 11 a.m. in A. Gerow Hodges Chapel. Dr. Wright is senior pastor of the 8,000-member Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga.
Students in Â鶹¹û¶³’s Cumberland School of Law and McWhorter School of Pharmacy began spring term classes earlier this month.