Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025
3:30-4 p.m. reception
4-6 p.m. lecture
Ohio Union, US Bank Conference Theatre, 1st floor
A livestream will also be provided on this page.
The event highlights the academic legacies of EHE faculty emeriti. This year, our speakers are professors Evelyn Freeman and Bruce Kimball.
Speakers
Evelyn B. Freeman, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Teaching & Learning
Evelyn B. Freeman is professor emerita of The Ohio State University where she taught courses in children’s literature and language arts, prepared elementary teachers and worked with graduate students. She retired as dean and director of The Ohio State University at Mansfield. During her appointment, she also served as executive dean for Ohio State’s regional campuses.
After she retired, Freeman worked as special assistant for International Projects in the College of Education and Human Ecology for several years.
Evelyn has served as co-editor of the Journal of Children’s Literature, for which she received the James P. Barry Ohioana Award for Editorial Excellence, and of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. She has co-authored six books on topics related to children’s literature and numerous book chapters and journal articles.
Freeman has presented widely at national and international professional conferences. In 2007, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). She is a past president of the Children’s Literature Assembly of NCTE.
Freeman has been an active member of the United States Board on Books for Young People and is a USBBY past president. She received the Alida Cutts Lifetime Membership Award from USBBY.
She previously served on the Executive Committee of the International Board of Books for Young People, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and as its vice president.
Bruce Kimball, EdD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Educational Studies
Our Gilded, Bronze Age of Higher Education
Bruce Kimball earned the Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, the Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and the EdD with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Education in history of education.
Before coming to The Ohio State University, Kimball served as a dean or instructor at Dartmouth College, at Harvard College, at Tenri University in Japan, at the University of Houston, at Yale University and at the University of Rochester in New York.
In 2007, he came to Ohio State as director of the School of Educational Policy and Leadership. He later became a professor in the Philosophy and History of Education program.
His teaching and research originally focused on the history and nature of liberal arts education. He then extended focus to the history of professions and professional education, after spending two years at Harvard Law School as a Liberal Arts Fellow in the mid 1980s.
Over the last decade, he also has been studying the history of wealth, cost and price of colleges and universities in the United States.
In 1986, he was awarded a Spencer post-graduate fellowship, and in 1998, a Senior Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2012, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 2019, he was elected to the Emeritus Academy of The Ohio State University.
Kimball’s publications have received prizes and awards from the:
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- National Education Association
- American Society of Legal History
- American Educational Research Association
- Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Associations
He has written 10 books and over 90 articles and book chapters. Published four decades ago, his first book — a history of liberal arts education — is still in print in English, as a Chinese translation and is now being translated into Korean.
Today, his Legacy Lecture draws from his recent book Wealth, Cost, and Price of American Higher Education.
