In an effort to engage former students with events on campus, Colgate University is using Webcast technology to allow even the most remote alumni to watch and participate when prominent writers visit the school.
The program — called Living Writers — is hosted by the streaming Internet television platform Livestream.
So far there have been two lectures, one by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz and another by the husband and wife writers John and Carrie Brown. Tim Mansfield, the director of alumni affairs, said 75 people watched the entire lecture virtually.
