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John Carroll University welcomes Leading Scholar in Urban Poverty,
William Julius Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

 “Rising Inequality at the Dawn of the New Millennium”
Monday, April 21, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center
This event is free and open to the public.

William Julius Wilson, Ph.D., Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.   

Wilson is a university professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Sociological Association and, recipient of the National Medal of Science. 
He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; and When Work Disappears. His most recent book, The Bridge over the Racial Divide, is a call for inter-racial coalition-building to effect social change.
Wilson received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1966.  He has earned honorary doctorates from Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.  In June 1996 he was selected by Time magazine as one of America's 25 Most Influential People. 

A lecture entitled “Rising Inequality at the Dawn of the New Millennium.”

This event is sponsored by the Poverty and Solidarity Program and Program in Applied Ethics at John Carroll University. 

The Poverty and Solidarity Program
John Carroll University
www.jcu.edu/poverty
Or 216.397.4980

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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