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Calvin Trillin, humorist and author of many books, will also speak at the dinner to be held 5:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
Nov. 13, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St.
During the event, YNHTI will recognize Howard R. Lamar, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of American History and president of Yale University 1992-1993, who has served as honorary chair of the University Advisory Council on the Teachers Institute since 1993. Lamar led his first YNHTI seminar, which focused on New Haven and its history, in 1979.
The New Haven Savings Bank, lead sponsor of the event, is honoring YNHTI participants by underwriting a portion of the cost of their tickets. Limited seating and sponsorship opportunities, which are partially tax-deductible, remain available for the event. Contact the YNHTI offices at (203) 432-1080 for information.
President Richard C. Levin said: "For 25 years the institute has served as the premier partnership between Yale and New Haven schools and has provided the model for the type of productive relationships that we now strive for in many spheres. Yale faculty members working together with New Haven teachers have mutually enriched their professional lives and enhanced the education of countless students in the public schools. I can think of no more deserving representative of this work than Howard Lamar, who truly symbolizes Yale's comitment to teaching and to the Yale-New Haven community."
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute is an educational partnership between the University and the New Haven Public Schools designed to strengthen teaching and learning in local schools and, by example, in schools across the country. Since its beginnings in 1978, YNHTI has emphasized preparing teachers in the subjects they teach and increasing the academic rigor and quality of courses in schools. The institute's annual program of seminars in the humanities and the sciences brings together teachers to work collegially with one another and with Yale faculty members who serve as seminar leaders. In addition to supporting teachers and fostering a sense of professionalism and community among them and Yale professors, the seminars are designed to develop innovative curricular materials which are introduced in school classrooms.
In 1998, YNHTI launched a successful project to demonstrate the feasibility of adapting the institute's approach at four other sites around the nation. "I applaud the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute for supplying models for what universities should do," said U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who, in his previous post as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, oversaw the establishment of the Houston Teachers Institute in affiliation with the University of Houston. "Its projects are not just inspiring, they are creating an environment in which partnerships will be the norm, not the exception."
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