WIIPPS_EVENTS_2009

NATIONAL ISSUES FORUM PUBLIC DIALOGUES "America: The Credit and Debt Society"

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:01:26 -0600

February through April 2009--
Faculty and public moderators, trained by Kansas State University Kettering
Model Moderator Trainers David Procter and Dan Kahl, will lead public
dialogues on consumer credit, debt and the short-term loan phenomenon.
Discussions will take place in various locations and public libraries throughout
the state.

Annette Lareau: "Unequal Childhoods: Equality, Class and Poverty"

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:08:31 -0600

Monday, February 16, 2009
7 pm, UWMC Theatre
Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, will discuss the effects
of poverty on education and family literacy. Lareau studied childrearing
practices among racially diverse middle-class, working-class, and poor
families in order to identify the “mechanisms in daily life that sustain the
patterns of inequality” in U.S. society and found that parenting methods
responsible for this divide varied more by class than by race. Lareau
received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley,
and is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
at Stanford.

KEITH MCBEE “Worse Than Broke”

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:25:12 -0600

Thursday, March 5, 2009
12- 1 pm UWMC Terrace Room
UWMC Associate Professor of Business Keith Mcbee will lead a
discussion, for students and the public, on student personal finances,
managing college expenses, and how to emerge, baccalaureate in hand,
in or out of debt, towards what might be an uncertain future facing shaky
economic times.

Campus and Community Poverty Simulation

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:26:28 -0600

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
UWMC & Community (locations/times Tbd)

Jackie Carattini, Family Living Agent for UW-Extension in Marathon
County, will lead a half–day poverty simulation for students and the public.
Participants role-play the lives of low-income families, from single parents
trying to care for their children to senior citizens trying to maintain their
self sufficiency on Social Security, and must provide food, shelter and
other basic necessities for their families while interacting with various
community resources staffed by volunteers. Afterwards, trained facilitators
lead participants and staff in a discussion where participants reflect on
their own ability to cope in a “state of poverty” and examine the issues and
emotions raised by the interaction between the “poor” and community
agencies. The experience helps build a shared framework that community
members can draw upon to talk about poverty.

Wealth & Poverty 2009 Statewide Conference

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:27:55 -0600

Wednesday, June 4, 2009
Thursday, June 5, 2009

To be held in Wausau, Wisconsin. The Westwood Conference Center
will be the primary venue: times, additional locations, and conference
agenda TBD. For more information, call 715-261-6234 or
email jean.greenwood@uwc.edu