Dr. James M. Harder, president of Bluffton University, will present the annual President’s Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, in Founders Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Harder will offer perspectives on the start of a new academic year—Bluffton’s 115th—and describe several institutional initiatives for the year. He will conclude with thoughts about Bluffton’s ongoing educational mission in the context of current public discussion of the future of higher education, and with respect to Bluffton’s 2014-15 civic engagement theme, “Education Matters! Learning for Life, Vocation, and Responsible Citizenship.”