Oct 15, 2006 2 min read

California University of Pennsylvania’s 8th Mission Day will be held Thursday in the Performance Center of the Natali Student Center. The theme for this year’s Mission Day will be “Dealing with the Future Now: How to Create a Vital Campus on Restricted Resources.”

Classes will not be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, but evening classes still will convene.

The purpose of Mission Day is to allow the university community the opportunity to share ideas and present concerns as equals.

Registration and breakfast will be held from 8 to 8:30 a.m. in the Natali Performance Center. The morning session will be held from 8:30 to noon.

Dr. Alan E. Guskin of Antioch University will deliver the keynote address from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Breakout sessions will be held in the Keystone Education Building from 9:45 a.m. to noon.

Lunch will be served in the Gold Rush Room of the Natali Student Center.

The afternoon session will run from 1 to 2. In this session, Guskin will moderate a discussion where breakout session leaders will be asked to report on recommendations that came from their meetings. The results from the breakout sessions will be documented in a report and distributed to participants at the end of the day.

Dr. Alan E. Guskin is a university professor at Antioch University in the leadership and change doctorate program. Guskin has held several leadership positions in higher education including: provost at Clark University from 1971 to 1973; acting president at Clark University in Worchester, Mass., from 1973 to 1974; and chancellor, at University of Wisconsin-Parkside from 1975 to 1985. Currently, he is distinguished university professor and the university president emeritus of Antioch University, a title he has held since 1997.

Guskin’s works have been widely published in magazines and books and focus on the social issues of change, power and leadership and how they affect educational organizations.

His publications can be viewed on the university library’s home page at www.library.cup.edu by browsing down to “Class Links” and clicking on “Mission Day 2006 – Guskin Resources.”

For more information or to volunteer to help with Mission Day, call Dr. Pratul Pathak at 724-938-4505 or 724-938-5782.