MVP Fridays
Hosted by the institute on Friday afternoons of select home football weekends, MVP Fridays tackle big questions by inviting national leaders, journalists, and writers to speak on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Each lecture takes place at 4:00 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Andrews Auditorium or Coffee House.
The 2026 Lineup
Mark your calendar for our fall 2026 series now and check back in for speakers to be announced. For the fall 2025 series, MVP Fridays brought to the institute Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and award-winning author Timothy Egan, and popular podcaster and author Elizabeth Oldfield. See the archive below for more on previous years’ speakers.
Friday, September 18 (Michigan State game)
Speaker to be announced.
Friday, October 9 (Stanford game)
Speaker to be announced.
Friday, November 6 (Miami game)
Speaker to be announced.
Friday, November 13 (Boston College game)
Speaker to be announced.