Friday, October 23, 2015
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Friday, October 23, 2015
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Today college is seen as crucial for career success and prosperity. And yet only 40 percent of full-time students earn a degree within four years, and 30 million
Thursday, March 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
One Community Reads: An Evening with Matthew Desmond
Citizens across Northeast Ohio are joining together this winter to read Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. As part of this inaugural One Community Reads effort, the City Club is pleased to join with Cuyahoga County's nine public...
Science, Technology & Innovation
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
TechStars Communities: A Look at Startups in Greater Cleveland
This forum has reached capacity. For more information, please call the City Club at 216.621.0082. When it comes to startups, Cleveland has been playing catch up since the mid-1990s. It wasn't always that way. A hundred years ago, Cleveland was an...
Friday, March 09, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
The Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Loan Debt
In an era of rising tuition and student debt, many are beginning to question the value of college. While estimates indicate that the median gap in annual earnings between a high school and college graduate is $19,550, the Class of...
Thursday, March 08, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Behind the Degree: The High Cost of Higher Education
It can be argued that higher education is in a state of transition. Facing increased costs, decreased state funding, and changing student demographics, colleges and universities have increased tuition and fees for the last several years - and faced public...
Thursday, March 08, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
Youth Forum: Beyond the Wall: The State of Immigration Reform
In September 2017, the Trump administration announced that, in six months, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) would end unless Congress passed more comprehensive immigration legislation. Since Congress has failed to do so, the Trump Administration released a...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
During the last decade, social opposition movements, revolts, and protests have swept across the globe. From Iran to Palestine and Ferguson to Venezuela, protestors have braved dire consequences to make their voices heard. Revolutionary grievances have included socio-economic concerns, demands...
Friday, March 02, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
CANCELED: The Three B's: The Effect of Implicit Bias on Preschool Expulsion
In 2005, Yale researchers, led by Dr. Walter S. Gilliam, discovered that preschoolers were expelled at rates three times higher than their K-12 counterparts. In addition to being more likely to be expelled, expulsion rates mirrors that of incarceration in...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Dinner + Dialogue: From Digital Divide to Digital Equality
As of 2017, 34 million Americans - mostly those who are poor, people of color, elderly, or rural residents - do not have access to fixed high-speed Internet. Northeast Ohio is not immune to this trend. In 2015, a report commissioned...
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