Say can i go back. Because the students are some of the, you know, most intellectually stunning people ive ever had the opportunity to be around. And they so the faculty, you know, has not theyre jumping at it. Yeah, and many instructors ive talked to had the occasion of teach anything prison and outside, you know, talk about the level of focus, commitment, he had dedication, air not distract bid iphon distracted by iphones. How are the Second Chance pilots ensuring they meet labor market demands . This gets to your idea that you distinction between job training and education per se. Any you you can answer this. We are proud and excited, happy, Second Chance pell sight. Im really excited to be coordinating the partnership between the three cuny institutions. For us, we will, in putting the application together, weve looked at what Employment Opportunities there were in new york. We went to the department of labor and looked at where the Growth Industries were. And then we worked with o
Happened in the decades before. Its a lot of policy like the 1994 bill, and democracy was basically neglectful. It neglected the ramifications that you saw up on the film, the impact of relying on incarceration, the impact on families and individuals and communities. It absolutely neglected that. It neglected the evidence that we know that exists about the kinds of good policies that can actually put people on the road to success that can actually deliver Public Safety for us, and that can actually be the spine for good policy. So democracy has work to do here in a different way now. We have a job to do over the next decades to turn back what we have built, and so thats why its good that all of you are in this room and you will go about your work focusing not only on training and education and making sure that programs, the quality programs are, find their way back into prison and into the reentry sphere but youre also going to have to do Something Else beyond just being good professio
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c
His great grandfather in fact was a founder of new africa, an all black colony established in the mississippi delta in the 1880s. If you know where to look urk still see a road sign. After his freshman year at howard, he got on a bus to go to a civil rights training meeting in houston, texas. Stopped off in jackson, and basically never left. As dory ladner says, he got gamed. Charlie would work as a snik organizers chiefly in Sunflower County in the delta. He would in 1964 be one of the primary architects of the mississippi summer project, though he was also someone who opposed the project. It was, im sure many of you have seen this document, this was charlie who wrote the prospectus for the freedom schools, schools intended in his words to fill an intellectual and create a vacuum in the lives of young negro mississippianss and so get them to articulate their own demands and questions. Hes remained an activist in the decade first and he has also worked as a journalist for National Publ
One of their widows was part of a Panel Discussion on the freedom summer. This is an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c span today, this is a signal day in america