Post Tagged with: "Wealth and Poverty"

Alan J. McMillan, founder of LearnEarnRetire, teaches a Fall 2019 Wealth & Poverty course designed to help students develop an early strategy for employabilty and a financial plan for being smart with their money—all aimed at financial independence over the course of their careers. This popular course will be held […]

By Kaia Mckenney (Freshman in HTC Environmental Studies) The Wealth & Poverty theme took its spring field trip to Downtown Columbus on Saturday March 30. Led by Dr. Yeong Kim of Geography and Columbus-based urban planner Kyle May, 22 Ohio University students participated in the trip to examine growing patterns […]

Dr. Yeong Kim took 22 students, mostly from her Urban Geography class, but also from Geography-Urban Planning and Sustainability, International Development Studies, and the Wealth and Poverty certificate, to Downtown Columbus on March 30 to investigate several redevelopment sites, including the Scioto Mile, Franklinton, Short North, and Arena District. Although […]

The Sociology & Anthropology Colloquium series presents a faculty research talk by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe on “Why Prisons Are Not the New Asylums” on Monday, March 4, from 11:50 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Alden 319. Ben-Moshe is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. The talk is […]

  The Wealth and Poverty theme presents a faculty research talk by Dr. Nicole Kaufman on “Governing through Partnerships: Neoconservative Governance and State Reliance on Religious NGOs in Drug Policy” on Wednesday, March 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Alden 319. Abstract: From the drug war to current responses […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme presents a fieldtrip titled “Inequality and Urban Change in Columbus” on Saturday, March 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To sign up, contact Dr. Yeong Kim, Associate Professor of Geography and Wealth and Poverty theme coordinator, at kimy1@ohio.edu. Space is limited. Columbus will add […]

Tariq Tarey The Wealth and Poverty theme presents the Ohio University Week on Immigrants, featuring Tariq Tarey and “REFUGEE| An Exile Generation,” on Friday, Feb. 1, from 2-3 p.m. in Alden 319. In this talk, documentary photographer Tariq Tarey will talk about what makes someone a refugee, the refugee journey, U.S. […]