Constitution Day Lecture - Monday 9/19/2016

On Monday Sept. 19 Shippensburg University and Dr. Steven Lichtman, Associate Professor of Political Science, are celebrating Constitution Day with a Constitution-themed lecture:

The Future of the Supreme Court

Monday, September 19, 2016.  7:00 pm

Where: Grove Hall Forum

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Educational institutions receiving federal funding are required to hold commemorative activities annually on Constitution Day, September 17 (or on a contiguous weekday, if on a weekend).  

Constitution Day - Monday 9/19/2016

On Monday Sept. 19 Shippensburg University and the Grace B Luhrs University Elementary School (GBLUES) are collaboratively celebrating Constitution Day with our annual reading of The Preamble by Provost Dr. Barbara Lyman and the GBLUES 5th & 4th graders. Please join us:

Monday, September 19, 2016.  10:00 a.m. 

Where: Library Plaza.  

Rain Location: GBLUES School MPR

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After the reading of the Preamble please visit the library (lower level lobby) to enjoy the art works on Constitution Day created by the GBLUES’ students. The art works will be on display until September 30, 2016.

Educational institutions receiving federal funding are required to hold commemorative activities annually on Constitution Day, September 17 (or on a contiguous weekday, if on a weekend).  

Constitution Day: Sept 17, 2013

Constitution Day Activities

Special Lecture

Guest Lecturer: Helen Knowles, Ph. D., visiting Assistant Professor of
Government at Skidmore College

Title: “You’ll Know It When You See It: the U.S. Constitution According to
Justice Kennedy”

Date, Time and Place: Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.,
Old Main Chapel

Reading of the Preamble

Join Interim President, Dr. Jody Harpster, and the GBLUES students as they recite the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Date, Time and Place: Friday, September 20, 2013; Lehman Library Plaza
(near the flagpole); 10:30 a.m.

Note: Both these events are sponsored by the S.U. Campus Constitution Day Committee, in cooperation with the Political Science Dept. and the Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School.

Lecture - Reintroducing American Constitutionalism

Dr. Mark Graber

·       Professor of Law and Government at University of Maryland

·       Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development

·       Recognized as one of America’s leading scholars on Constitutional Law and

        Politics

·       Author of Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge

        University Press, 2008)                                         

·       Also author of Rethinking Abortion (Princeton University Press, 1999) and                                                   

        Transforming Free Speech (University of California Press, 1992)

There will be an opportunity for questions and answers following the lecture. 

(For more info about the Lecture, please contact Dr. Steven Lichtman, SBLichtman@ship.edu or 477-1845) 

Join Us on Constitution Day

(Rain Location: GBLUES School MPR)

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·       Following the Reading of the Preamble, please visit the Lehman Library Gallery to see the GBLUES Student’s “Constitution Day Collages”

(For more info about the Reading of the Preamble, please contact Joyce Harding, jyhard@ship.edu or ext. 3289)