David Glenn, btw, has written for In These Times. M.P.--- Original
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>From: David Glenn <david.glenn at chronicle.com>
>To: psn at csf.colorado.edu
>Date: 6/19/02 9:54:48 AM
>
>On Thursday, June 20, at 1 pm U.S. Eastern time, the Chronicle
of Higher
>Education will host a live online colloquy on welfare reform.
The guest
>will be Dan A. Lewis, a professor of education and social policy
at
>Northwestern University. Mr. Lewis is the principal investigator
of the
>Illinois Families Study, an ongoing six-year study of welfare
reform's
>effects in Illinois.
>
>(The study's work is available at
>http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/research/IFS.html)
>
>As the U.S. Senate debates the reauthorization of the 1996
>welfare-reform law, our colloquy will attempt to explore a variety
of
>questions:
>
>== What has social science told us about the effects of welfare
reform
>since 1997?
>
>== Have elected officials and policy makers paid sufficient
attention to
>poverty-related social science? Under what circumstances are
public
>officials most responsive to these studies?
>
>== In terms of scope, design, and financing, what are the strengths
and
>weaknesses of the major welfare-reform studies conducted during
the past
>five years?
>
>== Is poverty-related social science distorted by various sorts
of
>political and institutional biases?
>
>We hope to include questions and comments from a wide variety
of
>scholars, advocates, and policy makers.
>
>Questions may be submitted in advance (or during the live colloquy
>itself) at http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/06/welfare/
>
>We hope that you will join us. We'd appreciate any time and
thoughts you
>might offer.
>
>
>--
>David Glenn
>Assistant Editor
>The Chronicle of Higher Education
>1255 Twenty-Third Street NW
>Washington, DC 20037
>phone: 202/466-1726
>fax: 202/452-1033
>e-mail: david.glenn at chronicle.com
>