{"id":69148,"date":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uconns-jim-calhoun-to-speak-at-university-of-rhode-island-honors-colloquium\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:00:00","slug":"uconns-jim-calhoun-to-speak-at-university-of-rhode-island-honors-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/uconns-jim-calhoun-to-speak-at-university-of-rhode-island-honors-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn\u2019s Jim Calhoun to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHoop hall of fame inductee to lecture Oct. 11 on \u2018Coaching Greatness\u2019<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. — October 3, 2005 — University of Connecticut men\u2019s basketball coach Jim Calhoun, inducted in September into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, will address the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Oct. 11.<\/p>\n


\n\tHis free public lecture, titled \u201cCoaching Greatness,\u201d will be given at 7 p.m. in the Chafee Social Science Center, Barry Marks Auditorium, Room 271.<\/p>\n


\n\tHis talk is part of this fall\u2019s colloquium, \u201cContemporary Sport, Healthy Pursuit or Obsession,\u201d which is examining some of the most important issues relating to sport and society.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs he enters his 20th season at Storrs, Calhoun\u2019s Huskies have won two NCAA national titles, an NIT Championship, and 15 Big East Conference titles.<\/p>\n


\n\tA native of Braintree, Mass., he has helped define New England college basketball, developing Northeastern University into a regional power and turning UConn into a national powerhouse. He is a four-time Big East coach of the year. He has led UConn to 18 consecutive postseason tournaments. Calhoun became the first person with UConn athletic ties to be named to a major, national sports hall of fame. He was named consensus national coach of the year in 1990. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe move toward national prominence for the men\u2019s University of Connecticut basketball program began in May 1986 when Calhoun was named head coach. At the end of the 2004-05 college basketball season, Calhoun and fellow hall of fame inductee Jim Boeheim were tied for sixth most wins by an active Division I coach with 703 apiece.<\/p>\n


\n\tMajor sponsors of the colloquium are The Providence Journal, Theta Chi Fraternity, 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program, 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Office, Institute for International Sport, 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the Provost, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Division of University Advancement.<\/p>\n


\n\tCo-sponsors are the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Athletics, Multicultural Center, College of Nursing, College of Human Science and Services, College of Pharmacy, Office of Student Affairs and Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor more information, visit www.uri.edu\/hc or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe Honors Program at 溏心vlog免费B站 offers learning enrichment opportunities that broaden and enhance the undergraduate educational experience. The program features small classes, a nationally renowned honors colloquium, national scholarship advising, and in-depth study and research with select faculty mentors.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 students must maintain a minimum 3.2 grade-point average to continue participation.<\/p>\n


\n\tOpen access to the Honors Program continues for qualified students throughout their undergraduate years. 溏心vlog免费B站 900 溏心vlog免费B站 students participate in the Honors Program. 溏心vlog免费B站 60 students are participating in the Honors Colloquium this fall, which also has a companion class.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoop hall of fame inductee to lecture Oct. 11 on \u2018Coaching Greatness\u2019 KINGSTON, R.I. — October 3, 2005 — University of Connecticut men\u2019s basketball coach Jim Calhoun, inducted in September into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, will address the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Oct. 11. His free public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}