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You Are the Reason
We Are Here.
Our activities are designed to bring citizens together, build community, spread knowledge, and support vital grassroots democracy.
Our success is measured by your involvement.
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We started over twenty years ago. In the early days we thought an overflow crowd was thirty people ...and thirty people was an big crowd for the Faculty Lounge where we held meetings. Over the years we continued to grow and now we average over two hundred guests at our big luncheons on the OU-Tulsa campus.
Although we are most known for our highly attended luncheons, we also organize a variety of smaller activities that involve participants on a more personal level and provide opportunities for informal conversations with important leaders from diverse backgrounds. An example of the kinds of special opportunities we have offered is illustrated by our month long program of field trips and mini-programs in October of 2025. (Click here to see the full program.)
We also enthusiastically partner with other organizations to expand our programming, including groups like the Museum of Tulsa History and the Tulsa Global Alliance, plus other institutions of higher education.
Would you like to get participate with us?
We also enthusiastically partner with other organizations to expand our programming, including groups like the Museum of Tulsa History and the Tulsa Global Alliance, plus other institutions of higher education.
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Examples of Recent Past Activities of the Center
The Center hosted nine higher education leaders from nine different countries to a dinner and program on the cultural formation of Oklahoma. Their visit was sponsored by the State Department.
Over 200 guests attended a Center luncheon on the OU-Tulsa campus to hear the Rt. Hon. Henry McLeish, former head of the government of Scotland.
Former Oklahoma Congressman (and professor at Harvard and Princeton and Yale) Mickey Edwards spoke about the balance of power between the three branches of government in Washington.
Why Are Oklahoma City and Tulsa So Different? was a luncheon program on the OU-Tulsa campus. 200 guests in attendance.
“American Unhappiness" was the luncheon program in Founders Hall featuring OU-Tulsa faculty member Linda Barnum, Ph.D. in psychology. The program explored the roots of the declining levels of happiness in our country.
The Center hosted Tulsa commemorations of the King's Official Birthday, the national day of the United Kingdom.
Oklahoma Historian Bob Burke entertained a luncheon crowd of 250 on the OU-Tulsa campus with stories of Oklahoma political history.
A reception was co-hosted by the Center at the Summit Club honoring Urs Broennimann, Consul General of Switzerland (Atlanta)
Charles Garrett, CEO of Cherokee Nation Businesses, and Bryan Warner, Deputy Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, spoke at a large luncheon on the OU-Tulsa campus.
The Center hosted a forum on polarization in American politics featuring Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Leslie Osborn (Republican) and State Rep. Melissa Provenzano (D-Tulsa)
Black History Month special presentation with Dr. LaVerne Ford Wimberly, Rebecca Marks Jimerson, and Vanessa Adams-Harris was held on the OU-Tulsa campus.
The Center's Circle of Honor was hosted at a luncheon in OKC. (The Circle is made up of current and past state government leaders and is a program sponsored by the Center.)
Historian Russell Cobb spoke to over 200 on the OU-Tulsa campus: "The Ghosts of Crook County: The Forgotten Crime Behind an Oil Capitol Fortune".
Nearly 250 people attended the Center's luncheon on the OU-Tulsa campus: "Is the Free Press in America Really in Danger?"
