Post Tagged with: "Wealth and Poverty"

Fall 2017 | Wealth and Poverty Certificate Offers Menu of Courses

Fall 2017 | Wealth and Poverty Certificate Offers Menu of Courses

The Wealth and Poverty Certificate addresses the growing challenges of inequality and poverty in society, both locally and globally, asking questions like Why are some so rich and some so poor? Why is there inequality in the world? What would be the cost of growing inequality? How could we fight […]

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March 30, 2017 at 11:15 amNews

66 Students Visit Southeast Ohio’s Coal-Mining Roots

66 Students Visit Southeast Ohio’s Coal-Mining Roots

Sixth-six Ohio University students visited notable historic sites critical to understanding Southeast Ohio’s coal-mining roots and history of activism on Saturday, March 25, with the Wealth and Poverty theme. They include students from CAS 2300x Themes in Action: Wealth and Poverty, HLTH 6760 Environmental Health Sciences in Public Health, POLS 3060 […]

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March 28, 2017 at 3:31 pmNews

Wealth and Poverty | School Supply Drive for The Plains Elementary

Diane Stock  giving a talk on The Plains Elementary (photo by Maddie Weir, a Globalization and Development major)

On Monday, March 20, the Wealth and Poverty theme launched an Ohio University school supply drive to benefit students at The Plains Elementary, one of the four K-6th schools in the Athens City School District. Currently, 402 students attend the school, 275 of whom are considered economically disadvantaged and eligible […]

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March 20, 2017 at 1:38 pmNews

Wealth and Poverty | Spring Field Trip to African Immigrant Communities in Columbus

Wealth and Poverty | Spring Field Trip to African Immigrant Communities in Columbus

The Wealth and Poverty theme is sponsoring two field trips in March to help OHIO students and faculty members “get to know their community better.”  The first one is to visit African immigrant communities in Columbus on Saturday, March 18, while the second one is to see mining towns in […]

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March 9, 2017 at 4:16 pmNews

Terman Presents on Class Identity at Appalachian Studies “Extreme Appalachia” Conference

Dr. Anna Rachel Terman

Rachel Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University, presents “Class Identity, Experiences, and Intersections among Young College-educated People in West Virginia” at the 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference later this month in Blacksburg, Virginia. Terman’s areas of specialization include rural sociology, Appalachian […]

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March 8, 2017 at 8:26 amNews Research

A Visit to Wealth and Poverty’s Rural America Exhibition

Rural America Exhibit in Alden library through March 10, 2017.

by Mercedes Lewis ’19 The Wealth and Poverty Theme’s Rural America exhibition, curated by Araba Dawson-Andoh, Africana Librarian, and Dr. Rachel Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is located on the fourth floor of Alden Library. It features multiple different items that focus on the past and present of Rural America. […]

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March 2, 2017 at 1:38 pmNews

Wealth and Poverty | Guest Lecture on The Plains Elementary, March 20

The Plains Elementary School

The Wealth and Poverty theme is hosting a guest lecture by Diane Stock, a social worker in Athens County Children Services. She will talk about issues, challenges and needs of The Plains Elementary on Thursday, March 20, from 3:05 to 4 p.m. at Alden 318. The Wealth and Poverty is launching, […]

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March 1, 2017 at 7:15 pmEvents