BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wacreading.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T131305 CREATED:20240930T195143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250302T191946Z UID:8030-1744198200-1744205400@wacreading.org SUMMARY:The Role of the Inspector General in the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government with Glenn Fine DESCRIPTION:Glenn Fine is a nonresident fellow in the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution. \nFine served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton\, Bush\, and Obama Administrations. As the Inspector General\, he supervised and issued reports of investigations and audits on many high-profile issues facing the Department of Justice. \nAfter practicing law at a firm\, Fine returned to government\, and in January 2016 he became the Acting Inspector General for the Department of Defense. In this role\, he led the largest inspector general’s office with more than 1700 staff in 50 offices around the country and the world\, for over four years. \nFine has testified more than 50 times before Congressional committees and has written articles on the role of inspectors general\, federal investigations\, and management in federal agencies. He has received numerous honors for his inspector general work\, including being named the Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal. \nFine graduated from Harvard College\, where he majored in economics. He was the co-captain of the Harvard basketball team and was selected in the 10th round of the 1979 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs. Instead of trying out for the Spurs\, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. \nFine earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. After law school\, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington D.C. Fine is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. \nThis luncheon meeting is being held at the McGlinn Conference Center \nClick here to register URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-role-of-the-inspector-general-in-the-battle-for-honest-and-accountable-government-with-glenn-fine/ LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacreading.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/glenn-fine-2-374x400-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T131305 CREATED:20250221T203213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250223T134159Z UID:8138-1744273800-1744300800@wacreading.org SUMMARY:WAC Annual Excursion 2025: The U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College DESCRIPTION:The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading presents: A Tale of Two Colleges. The U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College. An in-depth tour of The War College. \nAPRIL 10\, 2025\, ITINERARY8:30 a.m.: Tour bus departs from Walmart\, Wyomissing.10: a.m.: Arrive at Dickerson.11:30 a.m.: Depart for luncheon at Fiddler’s Bar & Grill.1:30 p.m.: Depart Fiddler’s for the War College.4:00 p.m.: Depart War College. \nCostMembers: $85.00Non-members: $100.00Ambassadors: $75.00 Spouse at member’s rateStudents: $45.00Includes transportation\, breakfast\, luncheon\, programs\, snacks. \nReceipt of payment confirms your reservation.Seating is limited. Reservations required by March 31\, 2025. \nPlease send checks to:WAC of Greater ReadingP.O. Box 6301Reading\, PA 19610610-375-7880 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dickinson College\n \n \n \n \n \n 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. \nAndrew T. WolffDickinson Collegewolffan@dickinson.edu \nDr. Andrew Wolff is an associate professor of Political Science and International Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics and European History from Washington and Lee University (1995)\, a master’s degree in European Studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (2003)\, and a doctorate in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS (2010). \nDr. Wolff has been a Fulbright NATO Security Studies scholar hosted by the College of Europe in Bruges\, Belgium (Fall 2021) and an associate fellow at Johns Hopkins University SAIS – Europe in Bologna\, Italy (2020-2021). From 2018 to 2020\, he served as the Dickinson College Director of European Studies at the K. Robert Nilsson Center for European Studies in Bologna\, Italy. Prior to pursuing graduate degrees\, Dr. Wolff worked as a legal staff assistant for Senator Paul D. Coverdell (Georgia) in the United States Senate (1996-1997)\, and he taught high school English in Prague\, Czech Republic (1997-1999). \nDr. Wolff’s primary research interests are NATO enlargement\, European security issues\, transatlantic relations\, geopolitics\, and American foreign policy. He has published articles in International Affairs\, Contemporary Security Policy\, Journal of Contemporary European Studies\, and Journal of Transatlantic Studies. \nAbout Dickinson CollegeFounded in 1783 by Benjamin RushSlogan: Freedom is made safe through character and learning Enrollment: 2\,134Vision: To be a leader in global education \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The U.S. Army War College\n \n \n \n \n \n 1:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. \nThe US Army War College educates and develops leaders for service at the strategic level while advancing knowledge in the global application of Land power. \nThe purpose of US Army War College at this time in our Nation’s history is to produce graduates from all our courses who are skilled critical thinkers and complex problem solvers in the global application of Landpower.Concurrently\, it is our duty to the Army to also act as a “Think Factory “for Commanders and Civilian Leaders at the strategic level worldwide and routinely engage in discourse and debate on ground forces’ role in achieving national security objectives. We will accomplish this dual purpose along the following lines of effort: \n• Provide high quality Professional Military Education at the strategic level that further develops accomplished officers and civilians\, both graduates and faculty\, who depart our institution armed with the right balance of theory\, history\, practice\, and communication skills to clearly articulate options for solutions to complex strategic problems and immediately be of value to any organization. \n• Aggressively Conduct Research\, Publish\, Engage in Discourse\, and Wargame with the entire faculty\, staff\, students and fellows; generate ideas and test concepts as the Army’s intellectual broken field runner for the application of Land power at the strategic level. \n• Conduct Strategic Leader Development through agile\, constantly reviewed and updated courses of instruction and other products that advance strategic leadership skills and senior leader abilities in the Profession of Arms. \n• Attract\, Recruit\, and Retain a high quality faculty and staff. URL:https://wacreading.org/event/excursion-2025/ LOCATION:PA CATEGORIES:Annual Excursion END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR