The New Jersey City University 2009-2010 University Lecture Series will feature four guest speakers during the institution’s 80th Anniversary year: Hector Cantú, Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, Michele Wucker, and Jeff Chang. All guest lecturers will speak on social responsibility.

Sponsored annually by the NJCU Division of University Advancement, the Series is free and open to the community. All lectures will be held at 4:00 p.m., in Room 202 of Hepburn Hall, on the University campus at 2039 Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City. A reception with the guest speakers immediately follows each lecture. For further information call (201)200-3426.

The Lecture Series is among the highlights of campus events commemorating NJCU’s 80th Anniversary and celebrating its achievements in higher education and its contributions to the students and communities it has served.

NJCU's 2009-2010 University Lecture Series will feature:

Monday, October 12-Hector Cantú is an award-winning journalist and co-creator/writer of the nationally-syndicated newspaper comic strip Baldo. He is co-executive producer of the television show “Baldo,” now in production, and author of two Baldo books, The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are and Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers. Mr. Cantú is also an editor at Quick, a daily news tabloid for young readers.

Tuesday, November 17-Clovis Maksoud, a lawyer, diplomat, teacher, and author, is director of American University's Center for the Global South and vice chair of the United Nations Development Program Advisory Board on Arab human development reports. He was an ambassador and permanent observer of the League of Arab States at the United Nations and its chief representative in the United States for more than 10 years.

Monday, February 22-Michele Wucker is executive director of the World Policy Institute, a nonpartisan center for progressive global policy research and thought leadership that publishes World Policy Journal. She is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.

Monday, April 19-Jeff Chang is a radical historian who tackles race relations, student activism, political engagement, multiculturalism, and the politics of abandonment so keenly felt by America's inner city youth. The author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Total Chaos, he is currently working on a third book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America.

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