On Feb. 19, Catharine Bond Hill, President and Professor of Economics at Vassar College, examined “Democracy and Access to Higher Education.” Hill co-authored “Access to the Most Selective Private Colleges by High-Ability, Low-Income Students: Are They Out There?” in College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? and “Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private […]
On Feb. 5, Jorge Dominguez, professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University, will present “Free Market and Free Politics in Latin America, Past and Future.” Dominguez also serves as vice provost for international affairs in the Office of the Provost, senior advisor for international […]
The series begins on Tuesday, Jan. 22, with a special lecture in celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. The event, which is co-sponsored with the Office of Interfaith Campus Ministries and The Office of Multi-ethnic Student Affairs, will feature Judith Green, associate professor of philosophy and co-director of women’s studies at Fordham […]
Akwasi Osei, chair of the department of philosophy, history, and political science at Delaware State University, closes out the series on Feb. 27 addressing “Can Africa Heal?”
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Branko Milanovic of The World Bank, discusses the question, “Is Extreme Global Inequality our Destiny?” at the fifth lecture in the Great Decisions Lecture Series on Feb. 20.
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Nicole Spencer, associate to the president of The InterAmerican Dialogue, will address “Can Latin America Foresee a Finer Future?”. There is a nice article in the Daily Record about Ms. Spencer.
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Pawan Dhingra, professor of sociology at Oberlin College, and Pablo Mitchell, professor of history at Oberlin, present “Can Immigration Dilemmas be Resolved?”.
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Richard Herrmann, director of the Mershon Center for National Security Studies at The Ohio State University, opened the series on Jan. 23 by addressing the question, “Can Iraq be Mended?”
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David Hendrickson, professor of political science at Colorado College, addresses the question, “Will America Decline?” at the final Great Decisions lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at The College of Wooster. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center (525 E. University St.), […]
Marc Blecher, a member of the politics department and the East Asian Studies program at Oberlin College, will address the question, “Will China Democratize - and Should It?” at the next Great Decisions lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at The College of Wooster. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be […]