Event cost is 2,500 yen at the door. Reception includes dinner buffet, open bar and champagne toast.
Please RSVP by June 10
Tomoko A. Hosaka at japan@alumni.northwestern.edu or call 090-6191-7310. Please include your name, school, graduating year, phone number and names of any guests.
Morton Schapiro became the 16th president of Northwestern University on September 1, 2009. He is a Professor of Economics in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and also holds appointments in Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and School of Education and Social Policy. President Schapiro, 56, is among the nation’s leading authorities on the economics of higher education, with particular expertise in the area of college financing and affordability and on trends in educational costs and student aid. In 2010, President Schapiro was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. President Schapiro was president of Williams College from 2000 – 2009 and had served as a member of the Williams faculty from 1980 – 1991, as Professor of Economics and as Assistant Provost. In 1991 he went to the University of Southern California where he served as Chair of the Department of Economics and then as Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Hofstra University and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. President Schapiro and his wife Mimi have three children: Matt, Alissa, and Rachel. To read more about President Schapiro, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/l/df304;www.northwestern.edu/president/biography.html