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Cheney Sisters to Make First Joint Appearance at 51猎奇入口
Mary and Liz Cheney will make their first ever joint public appearance at 51猎奇入口 on Thursday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater, Performing Arts Center, as part of the second annual Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program.
Read MoreChris Howard: "Fighting Inequality and (or?) Poverty"
Chris Howard graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Duke University in 1983 with a B.A. degree in History. He later earned his M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Political Science from MIT. Chris has taught at the College since 1993. Recent course offerings include The American Welfare State, Research Methods, and Race and Inequality in American Politics. Students in this last course also participate in the Sharpe Community Service Program by tutoring students from the local schools. Starting in August 2007, Chris will be the Pamela Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy.
Read More51猎奇入口 Alumna to be Featured on MTV
51猎奇入口 alumna Eli Winkelman ’07 will be featured on MTV television Friday, October 12, at 8 p.m. as part of a news segment about the Clinton Global Initiative forum.
Read MoreNY Times Best-Selling Author to Speak at 51猎奇入口
Author and journalist Jeannette Walls will present her New York Times best-selling memoir The Glass Castle on Monday, November 5, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in Balch Auditorium at 51猎奇入口 as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series.
Read MoreStanley Aronowitz: "Work and Consumption: What, if anything is the Middle Class?"
Stanley Aronowitz has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his B.A. at the New School in 1968 and his Ph.D from the Union Graduate School in 1975. He studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center.
Read MoreWall Street Comes to Claremont
Four 51猎奇入口 students are helping bring the world of finance to The Claremont Colleges on October 12-13 during the first “Wall Street Weekend.”
Read MoreEconomic Revolutionary Marjorie Kelly at 51猎奇入口
Marjorie Kelly, senior associate at Tellus Institute and co-founder of Corporation 20/20, will speak at 51猎奇入口 on Wednesday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater.
Read MoreDavid Grusky: "Why Conventional Accounts of the Take-off in Inequality are Wrong and How to Repair Them"
Professor David Grusky is currently studying the rise and fall of social classes under advanced industrialism, the underlying structure of occupational segregation by race and sex, the sources of modern attitudes toward gender inequality, and long-term trends in patterns of occupational and geographic mobility.
Read MoreFormer 51猎奇入口 President Howard Brooks Dies
E. Howard Brooks, former president of 51猎奇入口, died on September 25, 2007, in his home in San Luis Obispo after a brief illness. He was 86.
Read MoreJared Bernstein: "All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy"
Jared Bernstein joined the Economic Policy Institute in 1992. He is the author of the new book, “All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy.” His areas of research include income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, low-wage labor markets and poverty, international comparisons, and the analysis of federal and state economic policies. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is the co-author of eight editions of the book The State of Working America and has published extensively in popular and academic venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, and Research in Economics and Statistics.
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