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Featured Staff Pick The Great Equalizer?: Race, Class, and Higher Education
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Friday, February 05, 2021
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

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We all benefit when everyone has the opportunity to pursue their educational dreams, and education is often called the great equalizer. But what if institutions of higher education are actually complicit in maintaining the very inequalities they claim to remedy? In fact, it can be argued that the current system stacks the deck in favor of advantaged students. Only 19...

One Community Reads: An Evening with Matthew Desmond
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Social Justice

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...

TechStars Communities: A Look at Startups in Greater Cleveland
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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...

The Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Loan Debt
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Education

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...

Behind the Degree: The High Cost of Higher Education
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Education

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...

Youth Forum: Beyond the Wall: The State of Immigration Reform
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Social Justice

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...

Happy Dog Takes on the World
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World Affairs

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 7:30 p.m.

Happy Dog Takes on the World

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...

CANCELED: The Three B's: The Effect of Implicit Bias on Preschool Expulsion
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Education

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...

Dinner + Dialogue: From Digital Divide to Digital Equality
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Local Matters

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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