'What Is College For?'

Award-winning essayist and best-selling author William “Bill” Deresiewicz is presenting a lecture at Mississippi State. Sponsored by the university’s Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College, Deresiewicz’s talk is free and open to the public, and takes place in the fourth-floor forum room at Griffis Hall. Alumni and members of the campus community also are welcome to attend a 5 p.m. reception honoring Judy and Bobby Shackouls in the third-floor lobby at Griffis Hall. Based in Portland, Oregon, Deresiewicz is author of “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.” He taught English at Yale and Columbia before becoming a full-time writer in 2008. Click the link below for more information.