Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be this year’s Robert C. Vance Distinguished Lecture speaker at CCSU. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 8, at 7:30 pm in Welte Auditorium on the CCSU campus in New Britain. Admission is free but tickets are required. Gates is the only secretary of defense in U.S. history to be asked to remain in that office by a newly-elected president.