Louis Rabineau ’45 B.A., ’50 M.A., a champion of innovation in higher education, delivered the annual E.T. Dunlap lecture on higher education and public policy for students, faculty and the public on April 14 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
The Dunlap lecture series was created in 1990 by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, which designated Southeastern Oklahoma State University as the host site for the lectureship. “We are honored to have Dr. Rabineau on our campus for the day,” said the university’s president, Dr. Larry Williams. “He has distinguished himself as an authority on higher education, both nationally and internationally.”
For more than 40 years, Rabineau has served both public and private higher education on campuses in government. As vice chancellor and then chancellor of Connecticut’s Commission for Higher Education, he guided the development and implementation of the state’s first master plan for a comprehensive system of higher education. He was also president of the College of the Atlantic, and was also supervisor of professional education in the New York State Education Department. He is a distinguished senior fellow at the Academy for Educational Development.
• • • Sharon Ward ’80, a former alderwoman for the City of Albany, received the 1997 Certificate of Recognition for “Outstanding Public Official” at the Albany-based Neighborhood Resource Center’s annual meeting in May.
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