The fifth lecture in the Ethics & Public Life “Inequalities” series
Cecilia E. Rouse (Economics, Princeton) presents: HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE CHALLENGE OF INEQUALITY: OBSTACLES AND SOME RAYS OF HOPE
4:30-6:00 p.m., Monday, April 11
Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Drawing on her influential studies of sources of American inequality and the impact of educational policies, Prof. Rouse will describe ways in which post-secondary education has been a source of inequality, obstacles to reducing inequality through changes in post-secondary education and some promising ways of overcoming these obstacles. Currently Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, she was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2011.