Presidential Speeches and Articles

The following is a list of recent speaking engagements and articles written by SVC President Karen Gross:

june 2009

Topics: "Money's Language in a Troubled Economy" and "Improving College Success for First Generation Students" at Casey Family Service Conference, Concord, N.H.

Topic: "Law's Role in a Troubled Economy" at Vermont Professional Responsibility Board Annual Meeting

Topic: "Credit Counseling" at INSOL Quadrennial Meeting, Vancouver, Canada

MAY 2009

Article titled "Lessons Learned, Now That It's Over...." In Insidehighered.com dated May 26. Read more at http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/05/26/gross

Talk on May 5 at Burr & Burton Academy in Manchester on "What You and Your College-bound Student Should Know About Finances."

april 2009

Guest Teaching: "Consumer Bankruptcy" at University of Maine School of Law

Article titled "Creating a Retention Quilt: Southern Vermont College reports on results from the trenches" in The New England Journal of Higher Education, written by President Karen Gross, Provost Al DeCiccio and Dean of Students Anne Hopkins Gross. read more

MARCH 2009

Article titled "What Was I Thinking?" in Insidehighered.com dated March 16. read more or http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/16/gross

FEBRUARY 2009

Keynote address titled "Speaking Money's Language" at Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development, Philadelphia, Pa.

Topic: "Women, the Current Economy and the Language of Money" at Rivier College, Nashua, N.H.

JANUARY 2009

Article titled "A President Reenters the Classroom. Why?" in Insidehighered.com dated January 23. read more or http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/01/23/gross

Article written by Karen Gross and Anne Myrka titled "'Roving' Interdisciplinary Professors" in The Chronicle of Higher Education dated January 23. http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=nKGqjmvhnhb9jpDynr4rGdTCdkftxwg9

Article titled "A late-in-life friendship" in Manchester Journal dated January 16. read more

Article titled "We Miss You in the Academy" in Change. http://www.changemag.org/January-February%202009/full-miss-you.html

DECEMBER 2008

Article titled "Is an undergraduate education the next endangered species?" in December issue of Vermont Business Magazine.

November 2008

Talk on November 18 at Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Bennington on "Women, Money and the Challenges of Hard Times."

Common $ense 4th Annual Personal Finance Conference for Teachers and Parents, Wednesday, November 12, at Sheraton Hotel, South Burlington, Vt.
http://www.vermonttreasurer.gov/documents/literacy/SaveTheDate2008Flyer.pdf

OCTOBER 2008

Talk at University College London on "The Election and Why the Candidates Are Paying Attention to Bankruptcy." It was a talk about Senator Barack Obama's use of bankruptcy law as a vehicle for achieving social change - actually interesting to non-lawyers as it deals with healthcare, aging, natural disasters, the war, home mortgages and predatory lending.

fall 2008

Article titled "LA INSOLVENCIA DE LOS CONSUMIDORES EN EL DERECHO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS," appearing in a book titled "EL FUTURO DE LA PROTECCIÓN JURÍDICA DE LOS CONSUMIDORES" (Jorge Tomillo Urbina, Director), published in 2008 by Thomson/Civitas

August 2008

Insidehighered.com - Welcoming a New Provost, in 3 Months or Less - co-written by Karen Gross and Provost Al Deciccio

Southern Vermont College - Orientation Presentation to Incoming Students
The Dust is Fying

  • Read a transcript of The Dust is Flying 

summer 2008 

  • The New England Journal of Higher Education
    When Less Is More: The Role of Small (Really Small) Colleges In Today's Educational Marketplace

June 2008

  • Insidehighered.com - Doctor of Humane Lettuce 
  • PACAC - Pennsylvania Guidance Counselor Annual Meeting, Harrisburg, PA
    Topic: How Small Colleges Benefit Students
  • Commencement Address, The Hoosac School, Bennington, VT

April 2008

  • BusinessWeek.com
    Police Those Credit Cards: Via the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights, the U.S. should regulate the industry to protect consumers from sudden rate increases such as those recently imposed by Bank of America, which more than doubled rates for certain cardholders. Pro or con?
    Pro: Fine Print Is Useless - by Karen Gross
  • Canadian Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, British Columbia, Canada
    Workshops on Money Issues Affecting Students
  • Casey Family Services Diversity Conference, New Hampshire
    Topic: How Small Colleges Benefit First Generation Students; Understanding Money's Language

March 2008

  • Small Board School Association Annual Meeting, Rectory School, Pomfret, CT
    Topic: Small Colleges and the Benefits They Offer

january 2008

What's in a name: Provost or Dean? by Karen Gross

November 2007

  • Success Magazine
    Small School Big Ideas

October 2007

  • National Community Tax Coalition's 6th Biennial Conference
    Denver, CO
    The Language of Money
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Career Advancement, NYC, NY
    Panel Discussion on Using a Law Degree in Academia

Fall 2007

  • The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2008
    Expanding the use of Credit Reports and Credit Scores: The need for Caution and Empiricism

September 2007

August 2007

July 2007

  • IRC Comparative Consumer Overindebtedness
    Law & Society Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
    Panel - Responsible Lending
  • Inside Higher Ed
    My First Year as President

June 2007

  • Campus Compact Network Meeting, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
    A Dialogue With Presidents About Their Priorities And The Context For The Engaged Campus:A candid conversation with three college presidents from diverse institutions about the issues that are near and dear to college presidents' hearts and budgets.

April 2007

  • University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain
    Bankruptcy Laws of the U.S.

March 2007

February 2007

January 2007

November 2006

  • Nottingham Trent University
    The Language of Money and Why it Matters: Lawyers and Laypersons Should Learn to Speak It
  • Lancaster University Law School
    Be Careful What You Wish For: The American Experience in Changing the Bankruptcy Law
  • Southern Vermont College
    Teaching Women to Speak Money's Language and Why It Matters
    Sponsored by the American Association of University Women and SVC.
  • Southern Vermont College Inaugural Speech
  • Campus Perspectives with Bennington College President Elizabeth Coleman
  • Vermont Student Assistance Corporation Annual Meeting
    Learning to Speak Money's Language: Techniques, Tips, and Takeaways
  • Graduate New York State Financial Aid Administrators Conference
    Graduate Symposium - Financial Literacy for Graduate Students

October 2006

  • Black Accountants Northern New Jersey Chapter
    Dissecting a Credit Card
  • Law School Senior Seminar at The University of Hull
    The Changing Nature of Legislation in the US : Bankruptcy Law as paradigm for reduced flexibility and diminished individualized justice

September 2006

  • President Gross participated in a panel in Chicago for the International Bar Association. The topic was Women Lawyers Marketing All Clients. The panel addressed how women lawyers can market themselves more effectively. She was joined on the panel by Susan Bennett, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Culligan International Company, Northbrook, IL ; Ellisa Opstbaum Habbart, Esq., The Delaware Counsel Group, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Maria Teresa Pintos, Partner, Abeledo Gottheil Abogados S.C., Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Stella Obiageli Ugboma, Solicitor & Consultant, Stella Ugboma & Associates, Lagos, Nigeria.

August 2006

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