University Day Lecture

The University Day Lecture includes remarks by the President, Provost, and Faculty Senate President, a lecture by a distinguished leader to inspire faculty and staff, and will include a short, moderated discussion with the Provost and keynote speaker. The lecture will conclude with a prize drawing before heading to the expo and lunch next door Jeff Selingo has written about colleges and universities for more than 25 years and is a New York Times bestselling author of four books. His latest, Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You (September 2025), draws on more than two years of research and a survey of some 3,000 parents to give families permission to think more broadly about what signals a “good” college and then the tools to discover their dream school. He is also the author of Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, named one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year in 2020.