Nancy Parrish helped launch a national movement to reform how the U.S. military prosecutes sexual violence. Protect Our Defenders works to transform the culture of harassment and rape within the military through legal reform, advocacy, education, and free legal and case assistance for victims.
Parrish also co-founded the Human Rights Watch’s Northern California Chapter, which as part of its mission to protect human rights around the world sought to prevent the use of child soldiers. She worked with President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter in support of their international humanitarian work at the Carter Center. She also served as an officer of the Children’s Guardian Fund Board of Sarasota, which helps foster children.
Parrish will be honored during a symposium scheduled for Feb. 18.
“Ms. Nancy Parrish has long been at the forefront in addressing the many difficult social issues facing our country today,” Peterson said. “Here at Georgia Tech, we are familiar with her international humanitarian work and the many initiatives she has undertaken to help alleviate human suffering. Through her exemplary efforts as founder and CEO of Protect Our Defenders, she has given a voice to victims of sexual assault in the military. Our world and our country have been greatly enriched by her selfless service.”
The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage recognizes individuals who, by standing up for clear moral principles in the social arena, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their own careers and livelihoods.
Parrish has been harassed and threatened because of her work on behalf of active duty service women and men, veterans and civilians who are victims of military sexual assault.
“I want to make a significant lasting impact, focusing on the root causes of discrimination, injustice, and inequality in our society,” Parrish said.
She created Protect Our Defenders in 2011 after noticing a lack of attention to the issue. “When we as a society witness injustice and suffering, it is in our nature as Americans to stand on the side of fairness,” Parrish said. “Ivan Allen Jr. was a beacon of light in a dark time, and we strive to be that beacon of light today for our young service women and men and veterans.”
The prize comes with a $100,000 stipend. The Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation endowed the award in perpetuity. Parrish plans to donate the money to Protect Our Defenders.
Prior recipients include William Foege, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Beatrice Mtetwa and former Senator Sam Nunn.
Learn more about the prize here: http://ivanallenprize.gatech.edu
]]>“Ms. Mtetwa has endured a sometimes painful journey to achieve the larger purpose of freedom and justice for all,” said Georgia Tech president G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “That is the promise of a democracy, and Beatrice Mtetwa embodies the effort to fulfill that promise. There are some who, through great personal sacrifice and courage, impact the lives of countless individuals as well as those for generations to come. Ms. Mtetwa is one such person.”
The eldest child of 50, Mtetwa grew up on a farm in Swaziland without electricity and running water. She became the first in her extended family to attend high school and went on to study law at the University of Botswana and Swaziland. After pursuing a career as a government prosecutor, she became disillusioned by the selective justice she saw being doled out and moved into private practice, where she was able to conduct human rights work without political interference. Her dedication to representing those persecuted under the Mugabe regime is represented in the documentary Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law.
Mtetwa has been internationally recognized for her defense of press freedom and for facing physical assault and threats against her life in her quest to champion civil activists and local and international journalists.
“I am hoping that the message that will be sent out there is that one can be true to their beliefs regardless of whatever dangers might be lurking in the background,” said Mtetwa. “If more of us were prepared to do this kind of work, it would be more difficult to target them for persecution, and it is my hope that this award will help swell the numbers of people prepared to stand up for what is right.”
The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage will be presented to Beatrice Mtetwa during a ceremony at the Ivan Allen College on November 13, 2014. The presentation of this year’s award is especially significant as Mtetwa, an advocate for women’s equality and advancement, will be the first woman to receive the prize. It also comes at a time when government leaders in Zimbabwe are once again persecuting human right defenders such as Mtetwa.
The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage is named after Allen, a former mayor of Atlanta and Georgia Tech graduate. In 1963, Mayor Allen testified before Congress in support of what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, risking his place in society and political future. Prior recipients include former U.S. senator Sam Nunn, Dr. William Foege, and Congressman John Lewis. The Prize is accompanied by a stipend of $100,000, and is supported in perpetuity through a commitment by the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation.
]]>Hunter-Gault was just one of many who gathered on April 4 to honor a survivor of the “Bloody Sunday” beatings with the 2013 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage. That same day marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I didn’t like those signs [the colored and white signs found in the south],” Congressman John Lewis said when asked what prompted him to get involved with civil rights. “I wanted to do something about them.”
At age 25, Lewis became known around the world following the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” beatings of peaceful protesters in Selma, Ala. His impact on civil rights for African-Americans included advocating for desegregation laws and voters’ rights.
The celebration honoring Lewis, which is named for the late Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., included the Allen Prize Symposium. The symposium kicked off with a panel of faculty members from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts discussing how their work at Tech translates into helping local to international communities.
For example, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, community liaison for the Westside Communities Alliance, discussed some of the ways that she is connecting Tech people and resources to the communities surrounding the Institute. (To learn more about these efforts and how you can get involved, contact Davis-Faulkner.)
During another session, Hunter-Gault; Wyche Fowler Jr., a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Sherry Frank, former executive director of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee; and Andrew Young, former ambassador to the United Nations, shared memories of Lewis. President Bill Clinton, U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu also sent pre-recorded messages.
Another highlight of the morning was a Q&A session that included Lewis and his friends. During the discussion, he was asked to share his thoughts about a civil rights issue that is currently front-and-center — the issue of gay marriage.
“If two individuals want to get married, that’s their business,” he said. “You can’t have equality for some and not for all if you’re going to carry out the meaning of the 14th Amendment.”
When asked to share his advice for students, Lewis told them to find a cause that they are passionate about and advocate for it.
“Give it your all and never give up or give in or give out,” he said. “Whatever you do, do it with faith, hope, and much love.”
Lewis accepted his award in front of a standing ovation during a lunch program held at The Biltmore. The Social Courage award is given annually to individuals who, by asserting moral principle, positively affect public discourse at the risk of their careers, livelihoods and, sometimes, even their lives.
“I always did what I could do to help other people,” Lewis said at the ceremony while reflecting on his role in the civil rights movement. “I wanted to make a difference in order to meet the pressing need of people left out or left behind. I was inspired to find a way to a ‘new way.’ And this inspires me today, as I continue to keep pushing on.”
]]>“John Lewis put his life on the line for many years during the 1960s to bring about equality under the law for all Americans. His unflinching civil rights leadership and ongoing advocacy for social change throughout his career have elevated the causes of human rights around the world,” said Peterson. “It is our privilege to honor the life and work of Congressman Lewis through the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage.”
Lewis became known around the world at the age of 25 when he called on President Lyndon Johnson for federal intervention following a brutal attack on peaceful protesters by law enforcement near Selma, Alabama. Lewis’ appeal on that “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, turned public opinion against those trying to maintain the old social order of the South and moved President Johnson two days later to present to Congress what would become the Voting Rights Act.
“Congressman Lewis is one among us who has had the discipline and tenacity to stand tall, even in the face of physical danger, and he continues the struggle to change the world and make it a better place. His courage in the nonviolent movement for civil rights and his ongoing work to build communities of trust provide both a watermark and a signpost in the quest for human rights and human dignity in our world,” said Jacqueline J. Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He is the last surviving keynote speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, of which he was a core architect. Lewis’ impact on civil rights for African-Americans included advocating desegregation laws and voters’ rights. A founding member and president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis planned and led many of their activities. His personal courage was first evident when he led student sit-ins that resulted in the public accommodation of African-Americans at Nashville restaurants. He was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who challenged legally sanctioned segregation on interstate buses. Despite repeated attacks on his dignity, physical beatings and arrests, Lewis remained staunchly committed to nonviolent work for social change.
Lewis was elected a U.S. Congressman from Georgia in 1986 and represents the state’s Fifth Congressional District including Atlanta and parts of four surrounding counties. He has remained an outspoken advocate for domestic and international social and human rights issues. As recently as 2009, he was arrested at the embassy of Sudan, where he was protesting the obstruction of aid to refugees in Darfur.
The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage recognizes individuals such as Lewis who, by standing up for clear moral principles in the social arena, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their own careers, livelihoods and even their lives. The Prize is endowed in perpetuity by the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation.
More information on the Allen Prize can be found at the following link: http://ivanallenprize.gatech.edu/home/.
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Dr. Foege was honored during the college’s 2012 Founder’s Day celebration on March 14 – 15. Wednesday’s Allen Prize Symposium: “Global Health and the Challenge of Hope” brought to campus the world’s leading influencers in global public health. Moderator Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who is president and CEO of The Task Force for Global Health which Dr. Foege co-founded, highlighted Dr. Foege’s work in saving millions of lives, expanding the reach of public health, and forging a new concept of global health equity.
“Dr. Foege, more than any other single person, helped create the field of endeavor we now call global health and is the preeminent figure in the field today,” said Rosenberg. “His work [eradicating] smallpox, vaccine-preventable diseases of children, and other health problems of poor people and poor countries are just the visible signs of a much deeper and more fundamental influence he has had around the world. For him, improving public health, especially for people living in poverty, is one of the most effective means for promoting social and economic equity and with that, peace.”
Symposium participants were President Jimmy Carter of The Carter Center, Dr. David Addiss who directs the Children Without Worms program at The Task Force for Global Health, and Dr. Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA, each of whom spoke via recorded remarks, as well as, Dr. James Curran, Dean of the Rollins School for Public Health at Emory University; Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder and president of SisterLove, Inc.; Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, director of the Global Health Institute at Emory; former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher, who directs the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse Medical College; and Dr. Foege.
An epidemiologist, Dr. Foege’s sixty-year career has included leadership of U.S. and world health organizations and programs including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The Carter Center, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Task Force for Global Health. He was honored by Georgia Tech as an insistent and courageous voice for change who has often taken controversial positions and actions. For example, Dr. Foege’s discovery of the surveillance/containment vaccination strategy was crucial to the eradication of smallpox, but equally critical were the intercultural skills he employed overseas to overcome resistance to the new vaccination strategy. Dr. Foege moved forward the first mass pharmaceutical philanthropy effort, in contradiction to the wishes of the World Health Organization and other groups, which resulted in the donation by Merck of heart worm medicine for treatments of worms in children and is now a hugely successful program that is undergoing vast expansion.
Dr. Foege is ranked among those who have saved the most lives in the world, and he has brought about extraordinary progress across an astonishing breadth of health issues including disease eradication and control, child survival and development, injury prevention, population control, preventive medicine, poverty, and tobacco-related diseases.
In remarks directed especially to students, Dr. Foege said, “Absolutely love science, but don’t worship it. There is something better, and that is science in the service of humanity, a science of equity, and science distributed with compassion.”
Dr. Foege asked students to think beyond financial rewards. “If you want real power, think beyond yourself, your nation, and even your time in the world. Think of using your time to change the future.”
This Founder’s Day marked the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Ivan Allen, Jr. as mayor of Atlanta and highlighted the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts ongoing research, teaching, and service in the dimensions of his visionary urban policies and his values of social courage, social justice, and ethical action. The Allen family was present for the celebration.
Events on the 15th began with a research roundtable, “Compassion and Health,” presented by college and Institute faculty. The panel “Health and Humanitarian Goals” was moderated by IAC Public Policy alumna, Lynn Austin who is deputy director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Presenters were Dr. Anne Pollock (LCC), Dr. Jennifer Singh (HTS), and Dr. Julie Swann, (ISyE). William J. Todd (CoM), a recipient of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service and a Georgia healthcare leader, moderated the panel “Healthcare Policy and Economics” with presenters Dr. Vivek Ghosal (ECON), Dr. Kimberly Isett (PubPol), and Dr. Aaron Levine (PubPol).
Editors Note: On April 26, 2012, President Obama named Dr. Foege as a recipient of the Presidental Medal of Freedom, which is the nation's highest civilian honor.
]]>The speeches by Senator Nunn and Mayor Reed were among the highlights of two-days of events on March 14 - 15 celebrating the 2011 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Founder’s Day and Georgia Tech’s inaugural presentation of the new Allen Prize. Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson and Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean Jacqueline J. Royster presented the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage to Senator Nunn and the College presented the 2011 Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Awards.
“Senator Nunn is a man of our generation whose work will have a significant impact on not only our history, but our future,” said President Peterson when presenting the award. “Senator Nunn has worked tirelessly behind the scenes, sometimes at great personal risk… Since leaving office, he has been steadfast in his conviction to combat a deepening worldwide nuclear crisis.”
President Barack Obama offered praise for Senator Nunn via a special taped message that was shown. President Obama thanked Nunn “on a very personal level” for his advice and vision. The program also included a congratulatory message from U.S. Senators from Georgia Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson.
Senator Nunn delivered a compelling acceptance speech calling for fundamental change “if America is to continue to prosper and lead.” He highlighted “just three of our challenges": "a fiscal policy that is out of control;” a lack of “a sustainable, sensible energy policy;” and the erosion of American leadership in math, science and engineering. “China is already graduating more English-speaking engineers than we are in the U.S.,” he said. “When I compare our high schools to what I see traveling abroad, I am terrified for the workforce of tomorrow.”
Senator Nunn asked, “Do we have the political and civic will to work together to confront these challenges and build a world of promise? Big question.” He stated that civility and bipartisanship are required “to meet our fundamental challenges” and suggested a course of action for citizens, calling on them to convey to public officials and political leaders the message “we noticed” when they work cooperatively with their political opponents to achieve solutions. “To build a world of promise and avoid a world of peril, we’re going to have to make fundamental changes. To do that we are going to have to cooperate with each other. This will not happen without increased social courage by our leaders, but also by alert citizens.”
Also presented during the luncheon were the Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Awards which are generously supported by Col. Stephen Hall and Mrs. Pamela Hall. Dean Royster and Associate Deans Susan Cozzens and John Tone, and Assistant Dean Peter Brecke presented the four awards. The Ivan Allen Jr. Faculty Legacy Award was presented to Dr. Haizheng Li, Professor in the School of Economics, in recognition of his research on China and cultivation of an exchange with China. The Alumnus Legacy Award recognized Philip Rafshoon (IM ’83) for his courageous entrepreneurship as founder of Outwrite Bookstore and his leadership in Atlanta’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community. The Graduate Student Legacy Award went to Joel Hewett, a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Sociology of Technology and Science program and a Melvin Kranzberg Graduate Fellow in the History of Technology. The Undergraduate Student Legacy Award was given to Amira Choueiki, an Honors Program student who is completing her degree in Economics and International Affairs with an International Plan track in Arabic and a minor in Public Policy.
Prior to the awards luncheon, the College hosted more than 80 people at a cross-college Research Roundtable. The program began with a lecture and dialog on the unfolding crisis in the Middle East by Larry Rubin, Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. Then faculty from across Georgia Tech offered perspectives from a range of innovative and cross-disciplinary work that is contributing to knowledge creation, innovation, and problem solving and that links the humanities and social sciences with science and technology in order to advance the human condition.
The “Water and Conflict” panel represented research from faculty who are part of a cross-campus initiative to study water in its social and political context. Panelists highlighted issues of cooperation and competition around water in Africa, Peru, and Atlanta’s own local ‘tri-state water wars.’ Moderated by Sally Bethea, executive director, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, presentations were made by Susan Cozzens, associate dean for research, School of Public Policy; Aris Georgakakos, Georgia water resources director and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor; Barbara Deutsch Lynch, visiting professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and Bruce Stiftel, architecture professor and chair of the School of City and Regional Planning Program.
“The Future of Media” panel challenged the notion that “technology is a power for good that will save us so long as we invest in it.” Noting that we are at the second stage of new media technology adoption, that is using it to extend what has been done in the past, we are now close to the point where we will discover new forms of informing and entertaining via media that may be used to forge new paths toward social good. The panel was moderated by Phil Sharpe, senior vice president of Digital Media Competitiveness and Strategy for Turner Broadcasting with presenters Ian Bogost, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture associate professor and director of the graduate Program in Digital Media; Michael Best, assistant professor ofTthe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing; and Alexandra Mazalek, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture assistant professor and School of Interactive Computing adjunct assistant professor.
In her remarks at the awards presentation, Dean Jacqueline J. Royster said, “The Ivan Allen College Founder’s Day celebrates Mayor Allen’s legacy of courage, leadership, and action and holds forth a beacon for others to take seriously the importance of this powerful framework, a framework that has the demonstrated capacity to change hearts and minds and to inspire us to change our world for the better.” The 2011 Founder's Day celebration marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Allen Jr.
Top Photo: Dean Jacqueline J. Royster, Senator Sam Nunn, President G. P. "Bud" Peterson; Second Photo: Faculty Legacy Award recipient Dr. Haizheng Li; Third Photo: Col. Stephen Hall, Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award recipients Amira Choueiki, Joel Hewitt and Philip Rafshoon, Dean Jacqueline J. Royster, and Mrs. Pamela Hall; Bottom Photo: "The Future of Media" panel at the Research Roundtable.
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Videos of the Allen Prize Symposium including remarks by Admiral James G. Stavridis; the cross-college Research Roundtable; and the Founder’s Day luncheon including remarks by Senator Nunn and Mayor Reed and the taped messages from President Obama and Senators Chambliss and Isakson are being posted to the Ivan Allen College website. The Founder's Day schedule and programs are also available on the website. If the segment you are interested in has not yet been posted, please check back. All videos should be posted by March 30. http://www.iac.gatech.edu/news-and-events/annual-founders-day/videos.
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]]>The legacy of the late Ivan Allen Jr., COMM 1933, former mayor of Atlanta and namesake of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, is well known to those who lived in the city and the region during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.
Allen was largely responsible for building Atlanta’s reputation as an international city through strong support for the business community, development of vibrant arts programs, and the recruitment of professional sports teams. For all this to be possible, though, Allen first had to address the issue of racial segregation and the increasing tensions resulting from it.
In the summer of 1963, President John F. Kennedy called upon Allen to testify before Congress in favor of civil rights legislation to allow equal access to public accommodations for African-Americans, still a highly controversial idea in the South. Nearly all those whose counsel Allen sought strongly advised against testifying, warning the mayor that doing so would be politically damaging.
Despite the conventional wisdom being offered to him, Allen felt it was vitally important to support the civil rights legislation, not only to establish Atlanta as the “city too busy to hate,” but more importantly because Allen genuinely believed that doing so was a moral imperative. Ultimately, Allen was the only southern elected official who testified in favor of the legislation, a stunning act of social courage in 1963 that led to threats
of bodily harm and being ostracized for decades by many of his peers and lifelong friends.
In recognition of Allen’s legacy of social courage and humanitarian concern, Georgia Tech and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts have established the Ivan Allen Jr. Initiative, which will encompass two defining elements: the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage and the Ivan Allen Jr. Institute for Advanced Studies.
Beginning in 2011, the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage will replace the existing Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service, which has been awarded since 2001 to prominent individuals for a lifetime of achievement and with strong connections to Atlanta or Georgia.
The new Allen Prize will be international in scope and will recognize individuals who, by standing up for a clear moral principle in the social arena, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their own careers, livelihoods, and even their lives. The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage will be accompanied by a $100,000 award to be funded by the income from a $2 million commitment made in 2008 by the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation.
“What we envision for the recipients of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage goes far beyond being honored with the award at the annual Founders Day celebration,” said Ivan Allen College Interim Dean Kenneth J. Knoespel, who joined the College’s faculty in 1983 and also serves as McEver Professor of Engineering and Liberal Arts. “We anticipate having the recipient share a wealth of personal and professional experience with students and faculty during an extended stay on campus. The recipient’s presence will be reinforced through workshops, conferences, and other activities.”
It is also expected that the award recipient will interact with the greater Atlanta community, thereby extending the celebration of Mayor Allen’s principles to the city he so ably served. The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage will stand as the preeminent prize offered by Georgia Tech and will draw attention to the very mission of the Institute in Georgia, the nation, and the world.
“My father was always the kind of man who was guided by his conscience above any other consideration,” said H. Inman Allen, son of Ivan Allen Jr. and chairman of Ivan Allen Company. “I know there are many more Ivan Allens around the globe standing up for what they believe is right regardless of the risk, and I want this award to help bring the continuity of their examples to light.”
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., COMM 1933, believed that testifying before Congress in 1963 in support of civil rights legislation would end his political career. Allen, who was up for re-election the following year, had been asked by President John F. Kennedy to come to Washington and testify before Congress in support of the landmark legislation that would provide legal access to public accommodations for African-Americans.
Many of those whose advice Allen sought on the matter counseled him not to testify, believing as Allen did that his political life would be over. Even some African-American leaders in Atlanta were against Allen giving testimony for fear of losing a sympathetic mayor in the coming election cycle.
However, two very special people were supportive of the idea: close friend and Coca-Cola magnate Robert W. Woodruff and Allen’s wife, Louise, who reportedly told her husband that if he thought testifying was the right thing to do, then he should do it.
For Allen, who died in 2003, his belief in the moral imperative of publicly supporting the civil rights legislation ultimately outweighed worries about his political fortunes. While the initial reaction to his testimony was negative—especially in the South—public opinion soon shifted and Allen handily won re-election the following year as well as accolades for his beloved city.
The courage Allen displayed nearly half a century ago has inspired the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation to make a commitment of $2 million to endow the Ivan Allen Prize for Social Courage within the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. The new prize will replace the existing Ivan Allen Prize for Progress and Service, which has been given since 2001 largely to prominent individuals for a lifetime of achievement and with strong connections to Atlanta or Georgia.
The new award will be international in scope and will recognize individuals who, by standing up for a clear moral principle in the social arena, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their own careers, their livelihoods, and even their lives. Consequently, the prize might go to someone already well known, or to someone whose social courage has yet to be widely recognized. The Ivan Allen Prize for Social Courage will be accompanied by a $100,000 cash award to be funded by income from the new endowment.
“My father was the kind of man who was always guided by his conscience above any other consideration,” says H. Inman Allen, HON 2007, son of Ivan Allen Jr. and chairman of Ivan Allen Company. “I know there are many more Ivan Allens around the globe standing up for what they believe is right regardless of the risk, and I want this award to help bring the continuity of their examples to light.”
“This prize also will serve to highlight our unique role as a liberal arts college in a technological university,” notes Sue V. Rosser, dean and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. “Today, it’s important but ultimately not enough to educate students to be superb engineers or business leaders. We must also inform their sense of professional responsibility and motivate their sense of social justice. The Allen Prize not only will provide examples of the kind of leaders we seek to develop, but it will also inspire students here and elsewhere to discover their own sources of social courage.”
To inquire about making a gift in support of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, contact Director of Development Ski Hilenski at 404.894.9539 or ski.hilenski@iac.gatech.edu.
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