Former university president Linda Bennett will present “Higher Education: America’s Troubled Dream Machine” at the 2018 Stephens-Otterson lecture at 2 p.m. Oct. 14 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Evansville.

Bennett, who served as USI’s third president from 2009-2018, will focus on Frank Bruni’s book “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be” as a foundation for analysis of the relationship between higher education and the American public.