About the 2010 Symposium

For the past ten years, the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College has brought together leaders in business and education for a critical dialogue on key issues facing both groups: how emerging technologies have changed how we teach, learn, and do business; how conventions and contexts for speaking and writing in education and business have evolved over time; and what we might learn from one another about how to best enable our students and employees to communicate effectively. This year, at our 10th Symposium, we’ll revisit these issues and explore what the future holds for those of us invested in fostering effective, purposeful communication in business and education.

More coming soon. We will post speaker and program information as it becomes available.

Participation in this unique day-long event is free and by invitation only.

Following is Dean David Birdsell's closing address at the 2009 Symposium.

About the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute

The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute's mission is to infuse oral, written and computer-mediated communication into the curriculum at Baruch College. Through our support of Communication Intensive Courses (CICs), instructional technology initiatives, and our efforts in the City University of New York's Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program, we work to ensure that Baruch students encounter a wide range of opportunities to grow as speakers and writers over their course of study. We sponsor a wide range of award winning professional development activities for Baruch faculty and administration and engage in sustained dialogue on communication and communication intensive instruction with leading business professionals and educators from around the country.

Read about the Institute's role in supporting communication-intensive instruction at Baruch College in the Carnegie Foundation's Change Magazine (Nov./Dec., 2008). (Download the PDF)

To follow our conversations about communication, technology, teaching, and other related topics, please visit our weblog, cac.ophony.org.