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UNR President Milton Glick to Present Jackson Lecture July 25 at The National Judicial College

7/19/2007

The president of the University of Nevada, Reno, Milton Glick, will be presenting The National Judicial College’s (NJC) second Jackson Lecture of 2007 on July 25 at 4 p.m. in the NJC’s Tom C. Clark auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Glick became the 15th president of the University of Nevada, Reno, (UNR) on August 1, 2006, after serving 15 years as second-in-command of Arizona State University, based in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe. Before that he spent three years as provost at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, and was interim president for the final eight months. His first senior administrative position was as dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., in the mid-1980s. He was responsible for placing a networked computer in the office of every faculty member of the college, a revolutionary idea at the time.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Augustana College in Rock Island in 1959, Dr. Glick went on to earn his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1965. Following a year of postdoctoral studies at Cornell University, he joined the chemistry faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he remained for 17 years. In the initial phase of his academic career, Dr. Glick was a noted researcher in the field of x-ray crystallography. His work was funded for 17 consecutive years by the National Science Foundation and he published 99 research articles during that period.

Dr. Glick has been a technology consultant to colleges and universities and is a senior fellow of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, which conducts research on the roles and implications of information technology in higher education. He describes himself as both a technophile and “technoskeptic” — optimistic about the possibilities of technology but pessimistic about whether higher education will learn to use technology effectively.
The NJC’s Jackson Lectures are held in honor of Justice Robert H. Jackson, a 1940s Supreme Court Justice best remembered for his role as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg War Trials. The NJC presents these lectures three times a year at the end of each two-week General Jurisdiction course for the course participants as well as community residents.

Justice Jackson was born in Spring Creek, Penn., on Feb. 13, 1892. He never went to college, but attended Albany Law School for a year. He obtained most of his legal education under the old apprenticeship system as a law clerk and did not get his law degree until after he was named as a justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, when he was awarded an honorary degree by Albany Law School.

Justice Jackson was invited by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve in the New Deal government, first as General Counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and later as solicitor general and attorney general. He took his seat as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on Oct. 6, 1941, and served until his death in 1954. Justice Jackson is best remembered for his vigorous decision and wisdom.

Dr. Milton Glick, president of the University of Nevada, Reno will be speaking at the Jackson Lecture on July 25 at 4 p.m. at the NJC.