Author: Rhenee Clark

Dr. Day Radebaugh, assistant professor of philosophy will discuss “Champlain Tower Collapse in Surfside Florida, 2021: The Canary in the Coal Mine?” at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. today at Ahlberg Hall (Room 201). Radebaugh will discuss the conundrum faced by the engineers who were charged with determining whether the building was safe or not. The event is free and open to the public.

There will be an Educational Professionals Development Act (EPDA) Alumni reunion at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 via Zoom. After fifty years, the alumni will reunite to talk about their experiences and how the EPDA enriched their lives.

Fifty years ago, the United States made one of the largest investments in education, the EPDA, which offered grants to institutions to provide accelerated master’s programs to educators. Wichita State was the recipient of one of the grants to provide an accelerated Master of Arts in history program for those who had completed a bachelor’s degree and were currently working in education.

Those accepted received free tuition and a stipend to cover living expenses. This gave the students an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to study without the need for employment. People from across the country competed for the 18 available slots in the program, bringing students from across the country together at Wichita State.

For more information and the Zoom link, contact Dr. Jay Price at jay.price@wichita.edu.

Wichita State’s Society of Public Historians will host David Taggart, director of Development at the Federal Hall National Memorial, located in New York City, at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov.11 at the Beren Gallery in the Ulrich Museum.

Taggart ‘s lecture, “The Ongoing American Constitutional Experiment,” will examine how politics, grassroots organizing, boycott, protest, litigation, war, and other individual and mass actions, have continuously challenged the United States to live up to our highest ideals.

Taggart is an alumnus of Wichita State University.

For more information, visit the Wichita State Society of Public Historians Facebook page or contact Dr. Jay Price at jay.price@wichita.edu.

The Wichita State History Department will host its fall 2021 lecture, “Hidden History: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Struggle for America’s Past” with Dr. Scott Ellsworth, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2, via Zoom.

Ellsworth, a Tulsa native, is the Department of Afro-American and African Studies professor at the University of Michigan and is the author of “Death in a Promised Land,” the first comprehensive history of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Ellsworth received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1982. His awards include a 2016 Poets, Essayists, Novelists book award for “The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph.” Dr. Ellsworth’s most recent book, “The Ground Breaking: An American City” and Its Search for Justice was released in May.

Dr. Ellsworth was one of the lead scholars for the Tulsa Race Riot Commission and is assisting in the effort to uncover unmarked graves of massacre victims.

For more information or to get the Zoom link, contact Dr. Robin Henry at robin.henry@wichita.edu.