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Students looking for a 1-credit course this semester can dip into one of the university’s themes with a CAS 1300x Themes in Action course. Choose from five different sections—each focused on a different curricular theme—and get involved in activities and events around sustainability, local food, justice and social change, wealth […]

By Katie Smoleny From Compass Ohio University’s Wealth and Poverty curricular theme kicked off its first-ever weeklong “Wealth and Poverty in Appalachia” series with a lecture from a West Virginia University professor who’s conducted research on the effects of welfare reform in the Mountain State. “The people who designed (welfare […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme is offering a Tier III seminar (T3 4400 Seminar in Wealth and Poverty) this spring semester. The course examines economic growth, wealth distribution, poverty and inequality issues in both domestic and international settings. The course is team taught by four instructors – Dr. Mariana Dantas […]

The Wealth and Poverty curricular theme announces its Spring 2015 activities: Friday, Jan. 30 – Wealth and Poverty information session with A&S junior faculty, noon-1 p.m. at Baker 226. Monday, Feb. 23 – Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, guest lecture on “Socioeconomic Transformations in Postsocialist Albania” from 9:40 […]

With Dr. Michael Gillespie, Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is curator of the new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series at the Athena this spring. Marciniak, Professor of English, specializes in transnational studies, and the film series’ theme reflects her scholarly interests. Gillespie is Assistant Professor of Film Theory, with the […]

Ohio University faculty are invited to a Conversation about the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley Annex 007. Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, is leading an initiative across campus to entertain Ohio University membership in the […]

The Wealth & Poverty curricular theme presents Dr. Harlan Beckley on “Poverty Studies in Higher Education: The Case for Need and Collaboration” on Monday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. in Baker Center 231. This event is free and open to the public. Beckley is the Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion […]