ALUMNI IN FOCUS
Smith Brings Bard to Life
for Alumni in Online Class
Affairs
Seventeen members of the North Jersey Alumni, Parents,
and Friends chapter of the Alumni Association recently discussed Shakespeare’s As You Like It in a six-week online course taught by Ian Smith, associate professor of English.
Participants interacted through an online message board, and a live class hosted by participant Ed McNally ’65 concluded the program.
This is the second year that
Smith has led an online discussion for the chapter—free of charge. Both he and organizer James Abels ’00 are being honored with Alumni Association awards.
“Professor Smith did a great job of framing our discussion and illuminating the text via written mini-lectures,” says Abels, a government and law graduate.
“He went far out of his way to make things intellectually stimulating.”
The College’s support of the program mirrored what he experienced as editor of The Lafayette.
“Lafayette is so good about making avenues for you to get involved in any way you can dream up,” Abels says. “While I was at the paper [administrators] never bothered us. They may not have liked what we wrote, but they still didn’t bother us. And yet they would help with anything if asked. That encouragement to dream up ideas, the support to enact them, and the freedom to learn and experience independence is the best of what Lafayette offers.”
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