ELON COLLEGE – Environmentalists Malcolm Rivkin and his wife, Goldie, will visit Elon College during the week of Feb. 20 as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows. They will speak to classes and meet with students and faculty members.
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows connect a liberal education with the world beyond by bringing successful practitioners to colleges for a week of classes and informal discussions with students and faculty. Fellows, who include government officials, business leaders, journalists, environmentalists and medical ethicists, are matched with colleges chosen for their commitment to the program’s goals.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has developed and conducted programs in higher education since 1945. More than 200 colleges have participated in the Visiting Fellows program since 1973.
The Rivkins are experts in urban and regional planning. They also have developed several major analytic studies for public agencies. The projects have included an economic and social impact assessment of moving the Alaska state capital; a nationwide review of joint economic and community development on excess highway land for the Federal Highway Administration; and a study of urbanization in nine Southern African countries for the U.S. Congress.
Recently, the couple has worked on socio-economic and planning studies for the rehabilitation and resettlement of the Bikini Atoll and the Republic of Palau, Western Carolines.
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