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 Transcripts of Past Forums


November 10, 2005

Smart Mobs: The Impact of Ubiquitous Instant Access on Social Networks and Social Relations

by Howard Rheingold
Faculty Member of the Stanford University Department of Communications


November 18, 2004


Labor Goes Global: The Effects of Globalization on Workers Around the World

By Richard B. Freeman, Ph.D.
Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University
Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard University Law School
Director of the Labor Studies Program – National Bureau of Economic Research
Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets – London School of Economics, Centre for Economics Performance
Visiting Professor – London School of Economics


October 20, 2003

Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda


by Dr. Sara S. McLanahan
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and
Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University



November 13, 2002

Karl Rove

Senior Advisor and Assistant to President George W. Bush


October 15, 2001

Immigration and the Future of American Society

by Alejandro Portes, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Director of the Center for Migration and Development
Princeton University


October 11, 2000


The Governance and Management of American Universities: Changing Times, Changing Students, Changing Purposes

by David P. Gardner, Ph.D.

Chairman
J. Paul Getty Trust
Santa Monica, California

President Emeritus
University of California

President Emeritus

University of Utah


October 4, 1999

World Population Shifts: Boom or Doom?

by Kevin F. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Manager, International Studies
RAND
Santa Monica, California


October 6, 1998

Worldwide Communications: Are You Ready?

by John D. Evans

Cofounder of C-SPAN and

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Evans Telecommunications Company
Middleburg, Virginia


December 1, 1997


What Happened to Education and Arts in the Schools?
Public Policy Decisions for Our Future


by Harold M. Williams
President and Chief Executive Officer
J. Paul Getty Trust
Santa Monica, California

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