Richard Kahlenberg, author and scholar, will speak on “Should Affirmative Action Be Based on Race or Class?” at Pitzer College, Benson Auditorium, on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at 4:15 p.m., as part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute spring 2011 lecture and film series. This event is co-sponsored with the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College and is free and open to the public.
Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, writes about education, equal opportunity, and civil rights. He has been called “the intellectual father of the economic integration movement” in K-12 schooling, and “arguably the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions.” He currently serves on the advisory board of the Pell Institute and is a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Kahlenberg’s many publications include Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (2007) and The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (1996). His articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. For more information, visit his website.
The Scripps College Humanities Institute spring 2011 program is “The Future of Higher Education: Gender, Geography, and the Humanities.” The seminars explore such questions as: how can we address common goals of education towards global competency? How can we address leadership abilities within education? And, how can we address critical thinking in education? The seminars explore these and other questions with educators, administrators, and activists in diverse fields through their lecture, film, and performance series. For more information, please contact the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8237 or visit their website at scripps-staging.skybox0.com/hi.