GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College will host its second annual conference, “Mr. Jefferson Goes to the Middle East: Democracy’s Prospects in the Arab World,” on April 5-6, 2006, on the Grove City College campus.

Leading scholars and commentators will address the most difficult questions of our time: Will democracy in the Middle East work? Will sectarian violence dash democratic efforts? Will U.S. efforts to establish freedom and democracy defuse the threat of radical Islam and lead to peace? Is George W. Bush correct in believing that everyone has a God-given desire for freedom? Will the U.S. suffer a nuclear attack within 10 years? Do radical Muslims seek to continue Jihad until all people are under Islamic rule?

Additionally, the conference will be broadcast via live radio through two well-known radio personalities: Medved will conduct his national radio show from the conference and Jerry Bowyer will broadcast his Pittsburgh WORD-FM show over the two-day event.

Costs are $25/day (no meals) or $75/day including luncheon and dinner banquet meals. To register, send a check to Barb Jones at The Center for Vision & Values, Grove City College, 100 Campus Drive, Grove City, PA 16127.

The mission of The Center for Vision & Values is to encourage and support Grove City College faculty and friends in faith and freedom scholarship and to teach their ideas to Grove City College students, the nation and the world. The Center also seeks to develop a vision of freedom and to foster Christian values.

The Center for Vision and Values is a permanent home for the scholarly—as opposed to ideological—study of faith and freedom and the implications of faith and freedom for public policy cutting across all disciplines and fields. The Center seeks to encourage a robust yet reasoned interchange of ideas by the conduct of symposia, conferences and forums and to support the production of publications containing the products of this interchange that can be read and used by the intelligent layman.

The Center is led by Executive Director, Dr. Paul Kengor, and Administrative Director, Lee S. Wishing. For more information, contact Wishing at (724) 458-3332 or lswishing@gcc.edu. For more details, including free registration, visit www.VisAndVals.org.

This release is available for download at www.gcc.edu/news/releases/main.

The Center for Vision & Values logo is available via e-mail.

Grove City College is listed as one of the Most Competitive colleges in the nation by Barron’s. In its category, Grove City College is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 1 Best Value and No. 3 overall in the 2006 guide to America’s Best Colleges. Grove City College has also been called a “best value” and a “hidden treasure” by guidance counselors in the Kaplan National High School Guidance Counselor Survey, and is also the No. 16 Best Bargain school according to the Princeton Review. Founded in 1876, it is located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa. With an enrollment of 2,300 students, it is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. It is an advocate of the free market economic system and accepts no federal funding. Tuition is about half of the national average for private colleges.

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