Famed Educator Dr. Nel Noddings Is Riall Lecturer

SALISBURY, MD --- In cooperation with the Seidel School of Professional Studies, Dr. Nel Noddings, professor emerita at Stanford University, speaks on "Caring and Moral Education" Tuesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Salisbury University's Holloway Hall Auditorium.

In addition to 12 books, among them, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Women and Evil, and The Challenge to Care in Schools, she is the author of more than 170 articles and chapters on various topics ranging from the ethics of care to mathematical problem solving.

Noddings spent 15 years as a teacher, administrator and curriculum developer in public schools. She served as a mathematics department chair in New Jersey and as director of the Laboratory Schools at the University of Chicago. At Stanford, she received the award for Teaching Excellence three times, most recently in 1997. She also served as associate dean and as acting dean at Stanford for four years.

Noddings' presentation is part of SU's first campus-wide Women's History Month celebration. For more information see the University Web site www.salisbury.edu or call 410-543-6030.