Silver City author Bill Charland will be inducted into the Yankton College Humanities Hall of Honor on July 21, in Yankton, South Dakota. He is being honored for outstanding contributions to the humanities within his chosen career.

With a masters from Yale University in higher education and Biblical studies and a doctorate from the Chicago Theological Seminar, during the first decade of his career, Charland was a religious professional, as well as a campus minister, college chaplain and professor, primarily in religious studies. Then at Chicago State University, he became director of a program for mid-life adults outside the walls of a university named University Without Walls and for the next 15 years he directed other college programs for that age group in career counseling. He left higher education to work as a career consultant to more than 1,000 clients including American Airlines, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau.

He then became a free-lance journalist authoring six trade books about building a meaningful life and finding rewarding work, including Life Work and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Careers. Charland was also a nationally-distributed careers columnist for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO, and has written extensively for The Christian Science Monitor. A professor emeritus with Western New Mexico University, Charland served as director of its honors program, retiring from that position in 2011.

He is scheduled to have a reading and discussion centered around his ninth published book and third novel, Tenuous State, at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 7, at the Silver City Public Library. The novel is an action/adventure story revolving around a young professor in an historic, half-Hispanic university in the Southwest.

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