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Around the Institute

  • Welcome Letter Summer 2019
    Around the Institute
    Welcome Letter Summer 2019
    Building communities in places that don’t have them or need strenghtening is a core part of what the Institute does in all its programs. And building community is a core part of what our colleagues do off the clock, too, wherever they call home.

    BY Corby Kummer

    06.05.2019

  • By the Numbers Summer 2019
    Around the Institute
    By the Numbers Summer 2019
    Getting out from under consumer debt is ubiquitous. Although some Americans are debt-free, most of us carry debt some of the time—or even all of the time. We borrow for all kinds of reasons—to go to school, to buy a home, to finance a car, to tide ourselves over in tough times.

    BY Institute Staff

    06.05.2019

  • “I'm so Grateful to Ballet”
    Arts
    “I'm so Grateful to Ballet”
    The 2018 Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership was presented to ballet dancer Misty Copeland at a program at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center in November.

    BY Institute Staff

    06.05.2019

    • The Father Factor
      Society
      The Father Factor
      Programs like the CUNY Fatherhood Academy are excellent at equipping fathers with the tools to become better parents.

      BY Institute Staff

      06.05.2019

    • Florida's Best Win $1 Million Prize
      Community Colleges
      Florida's Best Win $1 Million Prize
      Most Aspen Prize finalists have paired clear program roadmaps for all students with strong advising systems to support students along the way.

      BY Institute Staff

      06.05.2019

    • Retirement Endgame
      Family Finances
      Retirement Endgame
      In the space of three years, the Aspen Leadership Forum on Retirement Savings has become the premier national meeting on a critical financial challenge: Americans’ lack of adequate retirement savings.

      BY Institute Staff

      06.05.2019

      • Fellows Tackle Reproductive Health
        Reproductive Health
        Fellows Tackle Reproductive Health
        The Institute’s New Voices Fellowship helps experts from developing countries become more powerful advocates, recently launched a new, three-year initiative focused on sexual and reproductive health.

        BY Institute Staff

        06.05.2019

      • The Shape of Retail
        Workforce Development
        The Shape of Retail
        Reimagine Retail shows what’s possible when communitybased organizations and retailers design local solutions that improve workers’ lives and business resilience.

        BY Institute Staff

        06.05.2019

      • The Digital Festival
        Around the Institute
        The Digital Festival
        This May, the Aspen Ideas Festival launched the next iteration of aspenideas.org, where the substance of the 10-day event lives and where visitors can delve into a rich video archive of talks, browse collections by topic, listen to podcasts, and share salient ideas on social media.

        BY Institute Staff

        06.05.2019

        • Tayari Jones Wins Aspen Words Prize
          Literature
          Tayari Jones Wins Aspen Words Prize
          On April 11, the Institute awarded its second annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, which is dedicated to fiction that has social impact, to Tayari Jones, the author of An American Marriage.

          BY Institute Staff

          06.05.2019

        • New Game in Town
          Sports
          New Game in Town
          With support from the Institute, the New York Rangers, the National Hockey League, Ice Hockey in Harlem, the New York City Department of Education, and Columbia University, 3,000 elementary and middle-school students in Harlem will have street hockey during gym class in 2019 and 2020.

          BY Institute Staff

          06.05.2019

        • Fellows for Civility
          Culture
          Fellows for Civility
          At a moment when the United States is particularly divided, Americans are yearning for leaders who use inclusive rhetoric and propose plans

          BY Institute Staff

          06.05.2019

          • Socrates in Colombia
            Around the Institute
            Socrates in Colombia
            In March, the Socrates Program and the John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation joined forces to bring the Institute’s seminars to South

            BY Institute Staff

            06.05.2019

          • Summer's Bounty: 8 Must-Read Books
            Literature
            Summer's Bounty: 8 Must-Read Books
            Whether you’re relaxing on a beach or on a mountain meadow this summer, these eight titles will enthrall the mind while your body kicks ba

            BY Institute Staff

            06.05.2019

          • Science Matters
            Technology
            Science Matters
            This May, the Institute’s Heath, Medicine and Society Program launched a new initiative, Science & Society, to address critical gaps in th

            BY Institute Staff

            06.05.2019

            • Aspen Libris
              Truth and Reconciliation
              Literature
              Truth and Reconciliation
              This spring’s Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series explored the news industry, the Supreme Court, and the self.

              BY Institute Staff

              06.05.2019

            • As Heard at: Sports Betting
              Magic Streak
              Literature
              Magic Streak
              Colson Whitehead spoke to an Aspen Words audience about his life as a writer, the difference between fiction and nonfiction, and how he came up with the fantastical premise for his most recent book, The Underground Railroad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

              BY Institute Staff

              06.05.2019

              Impact

              • Heads of the Class
                Community Colleges
                Heads of the Class
                Through its Aspen Presidential Fellowship, the Institute’s College Excellence Program teaches aspiring community college presidents how to make students’ future success their central goal.

                BY Linda Perlstein Tonjua Williams Jeff Cox Meghan Hughes

                06.05.2019

              • Outstanding on Rural Ground
                Community Development
                Outstanding on Rural Ground
                The Institute’s Community Strategies Group inspires local leaders to make rural America healthy and prosperous.

                BY Janet Topolsky Katharine Ferguson Connie Stewart Dennis West Ines Polonius

                06.05.2019

                Features

                • Bringing the World to Aspen
                  Around the Institute
                  Bringing the World to Aspen
                  Aspen Community Programs bring Institute values, excitement, and expertise to rich public discussions and seminars designed for Aspen locals and visitors.

                  BY Catherine Lutz

                  06.05.2019

                • There's no Workplace like Home
                  Community Development
                  There's no Workplace like Home
                  The Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship asks talented young people to turn their attentions to the communities where they live—preferably as soon as possible.

                  BY Institute Staff

                  06.05.2019

                • The Threads of Life
                  Society
                  The Threads of Life
                  The Institute's new initiative, Weave: the Social Fabric Project, asks Americans to find a better way to live.

                  BY David Brooks

                  06.05.2019

                  The Aspen Journal of Ideas

                  • Fair Game
                    Sports
                    Fair Game
                    Instead of just leveling the playing field, some sports are integrating it. Risa Isard examines how mixed-gender sports—from children’s teams to the most elite Olympic events—are creating opportunity and upending norms.

                    BY Risa Isard

                    06.05.2019

                  • Defeating Debt
                    Workforce Development
                    Defeating Debt
                    If companies want to recruit and retain a diverse workforce, they are going to have to make a major cultural shift, one that includes repaying employees’ student loans.

                    BY Romy Parzick

                    06.05.2019

                  • The Human Effect
                    Technology
                    The Human Effect
                    Once considered a panacea, many now see technology as a destructive force, usurping democracy and trampling basic values. But human beings have been here before. What right now feels like a time of upheaval and cyber chaos is just the next step in the long arc of human history.

                    BY Román Gil Alburquerque

                    06.05.2019

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