Higher education notebook

Harvard lecturer to join faculty

A Harvard University lecturer will join the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service faculty for the spring semester, the school announced last week.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy will teach “The Theory and Practice of Global Development.”

The course also will focus on human rights. McCarthy is the director of Culture Change & Social Justice Initiatives and the Emerging Human Rights Leaders Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, a research center at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, according to his biography on Harvard’s website.

McCarthy has written five books, publishes essays in news outlets across the country and lectures on history, literature, public policy and education. He’s taught at Harvard since 2005.

He’s twice been voted one of the “Professors of the Year” at the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, and he won the 2019 Manuel C. Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School.

McCarthy is a Harvard graduate and earned his doctorate in history at Columbia University.

ASU alumnus vows $500,000 for jazz

A half-million dollar gift will fund a jazz studies professorship and a jazz studies scholarship at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.

ASU alumnus Kade Holliday committed $500,000 to the school and has pledged additional annual gifts “while the endowments build to maturity,” a university news release states.

Holliday is the county clerk of Craighead County and is working on a doctorate in educational leadership at ASU. His undergraduate degree is in finance, and he has a Master of Business Administration from ASU.

Holliday, who is in his early 30s, is also a jazz musician.

“Music, especially jazz, has held a special place in my heart as it provided a mechanism for me to create and foster lifelong friendships, gave my creativity an outlet, and provided an escape that only music can truly provide,” Holliday said in the news release.