The James P. Curtis Distinguished Lecture Series was created by the Capstone Education Society to bring an educator or public figure to the campus each year to lecture about contemporary education issues. It was named in honor of Dr. James P. Curtis, a faculty member in the College for 23 years. During his service as Professor of Administration and Educational Leadership and Assistant Dean of the Bureau of Educational Services and Research, Curtis influenced the lives and careers of countless students who have become prominent educators.
This lecture is held in conjunction with the annual Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium held in the spring.
1991
Dr. John Henry Martin, Writing to Read
1992
Dr. Diane S. Ravitch, Standards and Testing in American Education
1993
Dr. Phillip C. Schlechty, Schools of the Twenty-first Century
1994
Dr. William W. Purkey, Creating Inviting Schools for the Twenty-first Century
1995
Dr. Donald P. Ely, Technology is the Answer, But What is the Question?
1996
Mr. Juan Williams, Education, the Leading Edge of Politics: Looking Toward the Twenty-first Century
1997
Dr. Patricia A. Wasley, Essential Connections: Kids and School Reform
1998
Dr. John I. Goodlad, Education for Democratic Character
1999
Dr. Claire Ellen Weinstein, Strategic Learning, Strategic Teaching for the Twenty-first Century
2000
Dr. David C. Berliner, The Silence of the Lambs: Education and the Business Community
2001
Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Outputs, Outcomes, and Results: The New Orthodoxy in Teacher Education
2002
Dr. Howard Gardner, From Multiple Intelligences to Good Work
2003
Mr. Batt Burns, Ireland’s Oral Tradition as a Dynamic Teaching Tool
2004
Dr. Joseph Renzulli, Expanding the Conception of Giftedness To Include Co-Cognitive Traits and To Promote Social Capital
2005
Dr. William Sanders, Beyond No Child Left Behind with Value-Added Assessment: Teachers Make a Difference
2006
Kathryn Tucker Windham and Joseph Sobol
2007
Dr. Sharon Robinson, Teaching: Building a World of Learners
2008
Dr. James Anderson, History of Education
2009
Dr. David G. Bronner, Leadership: Where Alabama is and is going
2010
Dr. Robert Granger, Frontline Practice: The Missing Ingredient in the NIH/IES Approach
2011
Dr. Shane Lopez, Hope, Engagement, and Well Being
2012
Dr. David Imig, Making the EdD the Degree of Choice
2013 (Spring)
Dr. Joy Davis, Gifted Education in Culturally Diverse Populations
2013 (Fall)
Dr. Carol Lee, Re-Visiting the Schoolhouse Door: Complexities of Race, Ethnicity, Immigrant Status and Class for Educational Access and Opportunity in Our Democracy
2015
Dr. Harry Brighouse, What Should Schools Do and How Should They Do It?
2016
Mr. Curtis Chin, Tested
2019
Dr. Jonathan Plucker, Excellence Gaps in Alabama
2021
Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey, A Scholarly Journey to Autoethnography: A Way to Understand, Survive, and Resist
2022
Dr. Jennifer Randall, Ain’t Oughta Be in the Dictionary: Getting to Justice by Dismantling Anti-Black Literacy Assessment Practices
2023
Dr. Miguel Casar Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California, Homies Theorizing Back: Critical Qualitative Methodologies for Educational Justice and School Transformation
2024
Dr. Maureen Flint, University of Georgia, On Monsters: Humanizing Inquiry in Polarized Times