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  • Welcome Letter Special Issue 2019
    Around the Institute
    Welcome Letter Special Issue 2019
    Look close, look deep, look anew: it’s what the Bauhaus taught, and what the Institute will conserve and reinvent at the new Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies.

    BY Corby Kummer

    10.01.2019

  • By the Numbers Special Issue 2019
    Around the Institute
    By the Numbers Special Issue 2019
    The Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy’s 2019 report, Crisis in Democracy, recommends specific actions to restore trust in local media—including what each American can do to help democratic governance. Here are a few of the reasons that’s necessary.

    BY Institute Staff

    10.01.2019

  • This Land is Shared Land
    Community Development
    This Land is Shared Land
    The Community Strategies Group examines the lands of the American West.

    BY Institute Staff

    10.01.2019

    • Sports
      "Don't Retire, Kid"
      The average child spends less than three years playing a sport and usually quits by age 11, most often because the sport just isn’t fun anymore.

      BY Institute Staff

      10.01.2019

    • A New Generation of Change
      Around the Institute
      A New Generation of Change
      The fellows put their new leadership skills into action with a group Community Impact Project. The Newark fellows (@NewarKulture) created a campaign and docuseries that focused on homelessness, environment and art, education, and immigration and xenophobia.

      BY Institute Staff

      10.01.2019

    • Eat Like a Human
      Culture
      Eat Like a Human
      What does it mean to eat like a human? Bill Schindler, the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College in Maryland, challenged the audience to ditch the processed food that makes up the bulk of the typical American diet.

      BY Institute Staff

      10.01.2019

      • Healthy Phrasing
        Health Care
        Healthy Phrasing
        The PHRASES initiative is researching how housing, education, health-systems, and business leaders think about public health in their work.

        BY Institute Staff

        10.01.2019

      • Listen to the Least-Heard Voices
        Nonprofit Organizations
        Listen to the Least-Heard Voices
        Fund for Shared Insight commissioned the Institute’s Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program to investigate how nonprofits listen to and connect with the communities they serve.

        BY Aspen Institute Staff

        10.01.2019

      • The New Debt Trap
        Finance and Assets
        The New Debt Trap
        The problems associated with student-loan debt are systemic and consequential both for today’s debtors and tomorrow’s college students—but they are also solvable.

        BY Institute Staff

        10.01.2019

        • Detroit and Denver Learn to Argue
          Culture
          Detroit and Denver Learn to Argue
          The Better Arguments Projec teaches Americans how to have better arguments and fewer divides, and joins forces with local organizations to talk to people on all sides of polarizing issues.

          BY Institute Staff

          10.01.2019

        • People Power
          Politics
          People Power
          Steele brought a welcome blend of candor regarding current US political strife and idealism that the nation can come together in contentious times.

          BY Institute Staff

          10.01.2019

        • Literature
          "I Had to Confront My Past Head On"
          Aspen Words Executive Director Adrienne Brodeur’s new memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, wrestles with Brodeur’s complex familial relationships.

          BY Institute Staff

          10.01.2019

          • Table to Farm
            The Environment
            Table to Farm
            Farmers, ranchers, suppliers, packagers, retailers, and experts in environmental and economic sustainability gather to answer the question, “How can the power of agriculture draw down climate change while creating value across the supply chain?"

            BY Institute Staff

            10.01.2019

          • Mother of Invention
            Literature
            Mother of Invention
            Chang, Brooklyn’s first female poet laureate and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, spoke about the creative process during a taping of the First Draft podcast hosted by Mitzi Rapkin.

            BY Institute Staff

            10.01.2019

          • Novel Use
            Literature
            Novel Use
            Panelists used An American Marriage to talk about inequality in the US justice system, why the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and how criminal-justice reform can help.

            BY Institute Staff

            10.01.2019

            • The Resnicks and the Legacy of Herbert Bayer
              Arts
              The Resnicks and the Legacy of Herbert Bayer
              This year, the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus School of Design, Lynda and Stewart Resnick donated $10 million for a new center on the Institute’s campus in Aspen dedicated to the work of artist Herbert Bayer.

              BY Institute Staff

              10.01.2019

            • How to Lead the Smart Machine
              Technology
              How to Lead the Smart Machine
              The NextGen network asks young leaders to explore how societies should respond to new technology and to examine local and international policy solutions.

              BY Institute Staff

              10.01.2019

            • Exchange of Scenery
              Communications
              Exchange of Scenery
              The Stevens Initiative invests in virtual-exchange programs that link youth in the United States to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa. This April, the initiative announced six new grants.

              BY Institute Staff

              10.01.2019

              Features

              • Reflection & Exhilaration: Aspen Ideas: Health and Aspen Ideas Festival
                Around the Institute
                Reflection & Exhilaration: Aspen Ideas: Health and Aspen Ideas Festival
                It can be hard to find a quiet moment during the summer at the Aspen Institute. The air is electric. Ideas jump from person to person. It is exhilarating and inspiring and chaotic.

                BY Institute Staff

                10.01.2019

              • Staying Secure by Staying Together
                National Security
                Staying Secure by Staying Together
                The 10th annual forum continued a tradition of breaking news (last year, Russians hacking Senate campaigns) and naming the greatest threats to the US homeland (this year, the superlative went to China). But the event also addressed new and growing threats, like domestic terrorism and gun violence.

                BY Jon Purves

                10.01.2019

                • Beyond Borders
                  Beyond Borders
                  When leaders from the Institute’s dynamic fellowship programs come together, they inspire one another to help more people, address more problems, and push the envelope for more and better solutions. Because humanity, as this year’s theme reminded them, has no borders.

                  BY Amina Akhtar

                  10.01.2019

                • A Total Work of Art
                  Arts
                  A Total Work of Art
                  The Institute celebrated the centennial of the famed German design school by exploring artist Herbert Bayer’s influence on the Aspen campus—and why it is “a total work of art.”

                  BY Catherine Lutz

                  10.01.2019

                  The Aspen Journal of Ideas

                  • Redefining Corporate America
                    Business and Markets
                    Redefining Corporate America
                    When the Business Roundtable renounced the primacy of shareholders, putting social good above the bottom line, the group was lauded for its reconception of corporate purpose. But, writes Judy Samuelson, it was the Institute’s Business and Society Program that had heralded the idea for over a decade, working to bring long-term value creation to a tipping point. It worked.

                    BY Judith F. Samuelson

                    10.01.2019

                  • From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being
                    Culture
                    From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being
                    Babies are more likely than older children to end up in foster care despite being more vulnerable developmentally. A new initiative is changing that, says Myra Jones-Taylor. Instead of blame, Safe Babies Court Teams helps parents become confident, stable caretakers, so babies can leave foster care and go home.

                    BY Myra Jones-Taylor

                    10.01.2019

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