September 2, 2005 Source: Carleton University:
http://www.carleton.ca/duc/News/news09020502.html TVOntario Chair Isabel Bassett To Announce Top 10 Finalists in TVO's Best Lecturer Competition Event: Isabel Bassett, Chair and CEO of TVOntario, Ontario's educational communications authority, will reveal the top 10 finalists in the province-wide search for the best post-secondary lecturer. Carleton University President David Atkinson will also deliver short remarks. When: Tuesday September 6, arrival at 3:30 for 4:00 p.m. announcement Where: Room 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University Background:
Almost a year after challenging Ontario post-secondary students to identify the best lecturers in colleges and universities throughout the province, TVOntario Chair and CEO Isabel Bassett will announce the 10 finalists. Having previously shortlisted the 258 nominations to 30, the judges - columnist Robert Fulford, playwright Andrew Moodie, and Literary Review of Canada editor Bronwyn Drainie - have now agreed upon the province's top 10 lecturers. The finalists will deliver their lectures on TVO's Big Ideas-two lectures a week for five weeks, beginning Saturday, October 8, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. with the two lectures repeated Sunday at the same time. Each week viewers can "grade" each professor over the phone at 1.866.281.3536 or online at www.tvo.org/bigideas. A TD Meloche Monnex $10,000 scholarship will be awarded to the winning lecturer's university or college. For more information:
Alexandra Stewart
TVO
416-484-2890
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