In the first convocation for the 2007-2008 Lawrence University Convocation Series, President Jill Beck discussed the urgent need for political activism in students and the community in her speech, "Educating Citizens, Supporting Students' Political Engagement and Getting out the Vote.
Lawrence University has recently joined hundreds of private colleges and universities participating in a new website created as a helpful college search resource for prospective students. The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities launched the site, called the University and College Accountability Network, Sept.
The campus center construction site gives the impression that the campus center is part of the earth itself. The foundations are integrated so tightly into the surrounding landscape that the construction looks more like a natural phenomenon than the man-made project costing $35 million that it actually is.