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
- Southern Vermont College - Fall Convocation
The Aims of Education
August 2007
- Southern Vermont College - Orientation Presentation to Incoming Students
Finding Success in Many Places and Spaces
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
- University of British Columbia, Montreal, Canada
4th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference
Credit Counseling in the U.S. and Canadian Experience - North Adams Transcript
Guest Column--"Top 10 principles for financial health"
February 2007
- North Adams Transcript
Guest Column--"Academic $ense Financial Literacy 101"- "Academic $ense Financial Literacy 101"
- Bennington Banner
Guest Column--"An expensive opportunity"
January 2007
- Southern Vermont College Spring 2007 Orientation Address
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
- Listen to the inauguration speech (MP3, 41MB)
- Read a transcript of the inauguation speech (PDF, 66KB)
- Campus Perspectives with Bennington College President Elizabeth Coleman
- Listen to the Campus Perspectives interview (MP3, 34MB)
- 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
- Southern Vermont College - Convocation
The Aims of Education: Learning to Think Multiperspectivelly"- Listen to the convocation speech (MP3, 21MB)
- Read a transcript of the convocation speech (PDF, 64KB)
- Southern Vermont College - Orientation Presentation to Incoming Students
Education: Its Many Places and Spaces- Listen to the orientation speech (MP3, 14.6MB)
- Read a transcript of the orientation speech (PDF, 76KB)
