Sanford J. Ungar
President's Dialogue: The Paradox of Free Speech in America Today
Monday, November 5
12:15—1:30 p.m.
Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
Sanford J. Ungar will discuss “The Paradox of Free Speech in America Today.” The talk will be followed by a conversation with President Philip A. Glotzbach moderated by Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs Cerri Banks. Lunch will be provided; reservations are required.
Sanford J. Ungar, president emeritus of Goucher College, is the director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University in Washington and a visiting lecturer in government at Harvard College. He teaches undergraduate seminars on Free Speech at both Georgetown and Harvard.
During his journalism career, Sanford was a staff writer for The Washington Post, Washington editor of The Atlantic, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, and co-host of All Things Considered on NPR. He began his career as a correspondent for United Press International in Paris and Newsweek in Nairobi.
Prior to assuming the presidency of Goucher in 2001, he was director of the Voice of America, the U.S. government's principal international broadcasting agency, for two years. From 1986 until 1999, he was dean of the School of Communication at American University. During his 13 years at Goucher, he introduced a requirement that every undergraduate study abroad.
Sandford is the author or editor of six non-fiction books, including "The Papers &
The Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers,"
which won the George Polk Award. He obtained his A.B. in Government magna cum laude from
Harvard College and a Master's degree in International History from the London School
of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Rotary Foundation Fellow.
He has a wife, a daughter, a son and two granddaughters.