Events - The Century Foundation

April 10 - 11, 2014
At 10:00 pm

Defying Injustice: Lessons from Defeating Apartheid to the Arab Spring

This interactive dialogue, led by Gay McDougall, brings together scholars, researchers and activists from diverse social movements to consider how the fight against apartheid can inform current social movements. Join TCF senior fellow Michael Wahid Hanna and other panelists for this exciting event. The profound transformations that were the goals of the movement against apartheid...

April 10, 2014
At 2:00 pm

Neighborhoods with Concentrated Poverty with Paul Jargowsky, Patrick Sharkey, Ta-Nehisi Coates

On Thursday, April 10 at 2 p.m. ET, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and The Century Foundation will hold a discussion on the long-term and devastating impact growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods has on children, with leading experts TCF's Paul Jargowsky, NYU's Patrick Sharkey, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP...

March 28, 2014
At 2:45 pm

Diversity in Higher Education Post-Fisher

TCF senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg will participate in a discussion about race-based and class-based affirmative action as solutions for diversity in higher education, as part of The University of Texas at Austin School of Law's Diversity in Higher Education Post-Fisher conference.

March 27, 2014
At 11:30 am

, 1899 L Street NW Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

From the 1940s, with the introduction of the G.I. Bill, through the 1970s, with the creation of Pell Grants, the federal government and states transformed American higher education from a bastion of privilege into a path to the American dream. But in the years since, this progress has stopped, and in fact, reversed itself. Instead...

March 21, 2014
At 1:00 pm

, 1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Encouraging integrated schools in the District of Columbia?

“Parents would express preferences among a cluster of schools, and an algorithm would make matches by balancing personal preferences with the shared civic goal of maximizing socioeconomic integration.” That’s how controlled-choice zones would work in Washington, D.C., as suggested by Sam Chaltain, Richard Kahlenberg, and Michael Petrilli in a recent Washington Post op-ed. Why try...

March 19, 2014
At 2:55 pm

, Pier Sixty Chelsea Piers, 23rd Street and West Side Highway, New York, NY, 10011, United States

Tech Against Human Trafficking and Illicit Networks

TCF senior fellow Patrick Radden Keefe discusses how big data is helping to map, expose, and disrupt illicit technology. Join Keefe for GigaOM's Structure Data conference. Register here.

March 10, 2014
At 10:30 am

, Austin, TX, United States

Snowden 2.0: A Field Report from the NSA Archives

TCF senior fellow Barton Gellman and Cory Doctorow, novelist, co-editor of Boing Boing and former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation discuss NSA leaker Edward Snowden at SXSW Interactive. Gellman looks back at what we have learned from Snowden, what it means, and what we still don't know.

March 3, 2014
At 9:00 am

25 Years From Now: The Case for Diversity and Future of Affirmative Action in the Wake of Fisher

TCF senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg will be speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law on March 3 on the topic, “25 Years From Now: The Case for Diversity and Future of Affirmative Action in the Wake of Fisher and Schuette.” Get more details on the symposium here.

February 18, 2014
At 10:30 pm

, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

How Can We Make Higher Education More Inclusive?

Last fall, a group of African-American UCLA students produced a video about the depressingly low number of black undergraduates on campus that went viral. The video reignited a longstanding debate over whether American universities are still the engines of social mobility we imagine them to be. Public universities in states that have banned affirmative action...

February 10, 2014
At 2:30 pm

, Wolfson Campus Chapman Conference Center, 300 NE 2nd Ave., Miami, FL, 33132, United States

The Next America: Making Community Colleges Work

TCF senior fellow Richard Kahlenberg joins with Marco Rubio, Davis Jenkins, Jim Murdaugh, and Eduardo Padr´n and moderators Ronald Brownstein and Mariana Atencio for a lively discussion of the role of community colleges in the post-secondary education landscape. The event, hosted by the National Journal will examine “how community colleges are preparing its students for...