September 8, 2005 Source: University of Waterloo:
https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/uw-news-release/2005-September/000458.html SJU's Higgins named one of TVO's Top 10 lecturers WATERLOO, Ont. -- Isabel Bassett, TVOntario's Chair and CEO, has
announced the short-list of Ontario's 10 best post-secondary
lecturers that includes Michael W. Higgins, President of St. Jerome's
University. Higgins, who will be one of 10 lecturers featured on the TVOntario
program Big Ideas in November, was initially one of 30 post-secondary
educators selected by columnist Robert Fulford, playwright Andrew
Moodie and Literary Review of Canada editor Bronwyn Drainie from more
than 350 nominees. The same panel narrowed the list down to 10 lecturers, who will be
featured, two lecturers per week, on successive Big Ideas broadcasts
beginning Saturday, October 15 at 1 p.m. The program is hosted by
Irshad Manji and is repeated on Sunday at the same time. The selection of Ontario's best lecturer will be left to viewers, who
can register their choice by telephone (1-886-281-3536) or online
www.tvo.org/bigideas. The winning lecturer's university or college
will receive a $10,000 scholarship sponsored by TD Meloche Monnex. Higgins has been President of St. Jerome's University -- a Roman
Catholic University federated with the University of Waterloo --
since 1999 and holds cross-appointments in English and Religious
Studies. He has authored or co-authored My Father's Business: a Biography of
His Eminence G. Emmett Cardinal Carter (1990), The Jesuit Mystique
(1995), the award-winning Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of
Thomas Merton (1998), The Muted Voice: Religion and the Media (2000)
and the best-selling Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the
Crossroads (2002). His latest book, Stalking the Holy: In Pursuit of
Saint-Making, is scheduled for release this fall. -30- Contact:
Harry Froklage, Director of Development and Graduate Affairs, St.
Jerome's University, (519) 884-8111, ext. 8255; froklage at uwaterloo.ca
Release no. 199 -- September 8, 2005
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