Celebration honors Martin Luther King Jr.MUSC's Office of Diversity will host Marguerite Archie-Hudson, Ph.D., keynote speaker for its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, in room 100 of the Basic Sciences Building.The theme for the program will be: “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve,” a quotation frequently associated with the life and teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The evening's celebration will begin with a 5 p.m. candlelight vigil, assembling at the corner of Rutledge and Calhoun streets and proceeding to the Basic Sciences Building on Ashley Avenue. The program includes an invocation, welcome and greetings, remarks by student leaders, musical presentations, and the keynote presentation by Archie-Hudson. A native of Yonges Island, Archie-Hudson has had a prestigious career as educator. She is former California legislator, community activist, and the first African-American woman president of a four-year institution of higher education in the state of Alabama, Talladega College. She holds a B.A in psychology from Talladega College, a masters degree in education from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She currently serves as adjunct professor of public administration and public policy at the College of Charleston. Archie-Hudson served higher education as statewide associate dean in the California State University System, administrator at UCLA's College of Letters and Science, and as an elected member of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District, which includes nine colleges. Archie-Hudson also served as a member of the California State Legislature representing the 48th Assembly District of Los Angeles, signing 45 bills into state law between 1990 and 1996. During her tenure, she chaired the Committee on Higher Education and served on the committees on Judiciary, Utilities and Commerce, Finance and Insurance, Appropriations, Human Services, and Labor and Joint Legislative Audit. She also held a leadership position as Democratic Whip and was a member of the Democratic National Committee. Archie-Hudson has long been active in civic and charitable endeavors. She served as one of the first non-lawyer members of the board of governors of the State Bar of California, the California Commission on Judicial Nominees and the California Committee of Bar Examiners. She was an elected Los Angeles city commissioner on charter reform and served as vice-president of the California Science Center Foundation. A well-known media personality in Los Angeles, she served eight years as a regular panelist on the Emmy award-winning KNBC-TV weekly public affairs program “Free-4-All.” Archie-Hudson is a member of the Alumni Council of the Harvard University
Graduate School of Education. She also serves on the Leadership Council
of the California Science Center Foundation, the board of directors of
Crystal Stairs, Inc., a California child development corporation and is
the current chair of the board of directors for the Charleston YWCA. She
is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, The Girlfriends and Links Incorporated.
Friday, Nov. 26, 2004
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