Dr. Shelby Steele, the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, will present “Is Diversity a Threat to Our Common Values,” at West Virginia University on Monday, Oct. 11. The lecture, which is at 11 a.m. in Room 113 of the Mineral Resources Building, Evansdale campus, is part of the Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
Steele joined Hoover, a think tank on the campus of Stanford University dedicated to research in domestic policy and international affairs, in 1994 and is known for his writings on race and social issues both in American society and the world.
He received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his book “The Content of Our Character.” Other books include, “White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era,” “A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America,” and “A Bound Man.” He has written extensively for major publications including “The Wall Street Journal,” “The New York Times,” “Time Magazine,” “Newsweek,” “Fortune,” and was, for many years, a contributing editor at “Harper’s Magazine.” He has appeared on national current affairs news programs including “Nightline,” “60 Minutes,” “Charlie Rose Show,” “Bill Moyers,” and “C-Span with Brian Lamb.”
Steele wrote and narrated two documentaries—”Jefferson’s Blood” and “Seven Days in Bensonhurst.” In 2004 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and in 2006, he received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race and social policy in America.
The Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series is named in honor of the outstanding alumnus who, in 2005, established an endowment to support the deanship of the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU.
Glen H. Hiner graduated from WVU’s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1957, and then embarked on an outstanding 35-year career with General Electric. In 1992, he became chief executive officer of Owens Corning. He has served on several College of Engineering and Mineral Resources’ advisory committees, as a visiting professor in the WVU College of Business and Economics, and as a member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors.
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