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Great Minds: The Visiting Scholar Experience at SJSU
February 3 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

“Great Minds” explores the history of the Visiting and Distinguished Scholar in Residence program at SJSU. Begun in 1962, the program was established as a way to bring scholars from various disciplines to campus for an extended stay. Scholars included the architect, inventor, and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, comedian and activist Dick Gregory, anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead, writer and philosopher Alan Watts, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling, and Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, among others.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Library, Special Collections Reading Room, 5th Floor
150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 95112