What would happen if a surgeon walked into an operating room without a scalpel? Not much. What would happen if a teacher ran out of chalk? A lot.  Today, the classroom is different and Dr. Patricia Russell-McCloud is ready to move students, professors, administrators, and the community to new levels of collaboration.

Russell-McCloud is coming to North Carolina Central University as part of the institution’s Centennial Lyceum program on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 6 p.m, in the McDougald- McLendon Gymnasium.  The topic of the lecture is Education Upgrade—Empowering, Energizing and Enlightening!

According to the motivational speaker’s biography, she is an “internationally acclaimed orator and author who motivates and encourages students, and faculty… to increase their educational opportunities for mainstream opportunities in the public and private sector job markets.”

The lecture Education Upgrade—Empowering, Energizing and Enlightening! is free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact:  Natasha Adams at (919) 530-6932 or email: <[email protected]>.