CONWAY, Ark. (Jan. 25, 2016) — Hendrix College will welcome Dr. David Grusky as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar on Monday, March 7, at 6 p.m., in Mills B.
Grusky will give a lecture titled “A Blueprint for Ending Poverty … Permanently.”
The lecture, sponsored by the Hendrix College Phi Beta Kappa chapter, is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, refreshments will be served at a reception in Mills Lobby. For more information contact Jamie Groat at 501-450-1373 or
groatj@hendrix.edu.
About
the lecture
The first War on Poverty, waged over a half-century ago, was based mainly on hunch. Do we now have enough evidence about the sources and causes of poverty to wage a second war based on science? Can we reduce poverty substantially and permanently by treating upstream causes rather than downstream symptoms? The simple answer to both questions: Yes. It is just a matter of going beyond the usual lip-service commitment to equal opportunity and instead treating it as living principle around which our schools, our neighborhoods, and our labor markets are built. Is this the blue-sky thinking of some ivory-tower academic? No. There is nothing more distinctively American than the idea that our principles are meaningful and that at key moments our institutions must be recast and perfected to ensure that they live up to them.
About the speaker
David Grusky is Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and coeditor of Pathways Magazine and of Stanford’s Studies in Social Inequality Book Series. He is a fellow of the AAAS, recipient of the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship (American Sociological Association), founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and a former Presidential Young Investigator. His research takes on such questions as whether and why gender, racial, and class-based inequalities are growing stronger and how such differences are best measured. His recent books include Social Stratification, Occupy the Future, The New Gilded Age, The Great Recession, The Inequality Reader, and The Inequality Puzzle. Dr. Grusky received his B.A. from Reed College in 1980 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and 1987, respectively.
About
the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program
Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholar Program has been offering undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an
exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. The 13 men and women participating during 2015-2016 will visit 100 colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, spending two days on each campus and taking full part in the academic life of the institution. They
will meet informally with students and faculty members, participate in classroom discussions and seminars, and give a public lecture open to the entire academic community. Now entering its 60th year, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 636 Scholars on 5,188 two-day visits.
Additional information about the Visiting Scholar Program is available
here
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Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 286 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence,
and to foster freedom of thought and expression.
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives:
40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.
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