Professional Activities

Jay Kahn (Finance and Planning) presented “The Business Case for Sustainability” at the New England Board of Education’s “Greening Higher Education, Saving the Planet and Saving Money – A New England Leadership Forum,” on May 4 in Boston. His talk looked at how the College has confronted unprecedented fiscal challenges by implementing sustainable, cost-efficient solutions such as the Monadnock Biodiesel Collaborative. Mary Jensen (Sustainability and Recycling) also attended the conference, along with more than 225 leaders in higher education, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Katherine Tirabassi (English) co-coordinated the National Archives for Composition and Rhetoric’s Workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in San Francisco in March. She also presented a talk, “Journeying into the Archives,” at the workshop, and was an invited speaker at the CCCC Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, giving the talk, “Knowing Our Institutional Histories and Building Regional Professional Networks.”