NDDC Downtown Forum: College Presidents Speak October 3, 2006

St. Olaf College President David R. Anderson and Carleton College President Rob Oden will address the monthly NDDC Downtown Forum on Tuesday, Oct. 3, sponsored by the Northfield Downtown Development Corp.

The event, which is open to the public, begins at 8 a.m. in the lower-level conference room of the Archer House at Third and Division streets in Northfield. Coffee and refreshments will be served.

The majority of the presidents' time will be dominated by questions from the audience. Both Anderson and Oden will open with remarks about each college's role in the Northfield community -- as a stakeholder, an employer and a provider not only of intellectual and cultural events but of student energy and volunteerism.

Anderson is new to Northfield, having moved here in July from his position of provost and professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Oden has been president of Carleton since 2002. He came to Northfield from the presidency of Kenyon College in Ohio, where he and Anderson became friends.

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