Posts Tagged: inequality

Inequality: Q&A with Higher Ed Guru Jack Maguire

Posted March 12th, 2012 by John O. Harney & filed under Journal Type.

Earlier this year, NEBHE President Michael K. Thomas and I sat down with higher education consultant Jack Maguire to talk about the problem of social and economic inequality—an increasingly prominent topic in national discussions of education and other matters. Educated as a physicist, Maguire had been watching the skies when we visited to see how recent solar storms at the time affecte...

Conn. Gov. Malloy to Speak at Conference on Growing Economic Divide and Implications for Ed

Posted August 17th, 2011 by John O. Harney & filed under Economy, Events, Financing, Newslink, Schools, Student Aid, Students, Trends.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will be among speakers at “To Have and Have Not: The Growing Economic and Social Divide and its Implications for Educational Leaders,” a conference scheduled for Monday, Oct. 3, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at Boston University’s Metcalf Trustee Center.The conference sponsored by Concord, Mass.-based Maguire Associates will also feature Barry Bluestone...