Professor Myron Orfield, Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota, will present “Segregation in Schools and Housing in the Twin Cities” on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public.
Orfield is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and an affiliate faculty member at the U of M’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Orfield teaches and writes in the fields of civil rights, state and local government, state and local finance, land use, questions of regional governance, and the legislative process.
This event is co-sponsored by the Carleton College Departments of Educational Studies, Political Science, and American Studies. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4012.