Four Global Crises: Money, Security, Heat, Psychology

Jeffrey Sachs, renowned author and economist, and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, with Bill Blakemore, ABC News correspondent, speak on 4 GLOBAL CRISES: Money, Security, Heat, Psychology at Salisbury School’s Seifert Theater.

Immigration in America: What’s in Store?

Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and Senior Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute will speak on “Immigration in America: What’s in Store?”at Housatonic Valley Regional High School.

Suggested Reading

Who Are New England’s Immigrants?
By Mamie Marcuss with Ricardo Borgos
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Fall 2004
http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/c&b/2004/fall/Immigrants.pdf

Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
By Aaron Terrazas and Jeanne Batalova
Migration Policy Institute, October 2009
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=747

Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What’s Really at Stake
By Randy Capps, Marc R. Rosenblum, and Michael Fix
Migration Policy Institute, October 2009
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/healthcare-Oct09.pdf

Migration and the Global Recession: A Report Commissioned by the BBC World Service
By Michael Fix, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Jeanne Batalova, Aaron Terrazas, Serena Yi-Ying Lin, and Michelle Mittelstadt
Migration Policy Institute, September 2009
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MPI-BBCreport-Sept09.pdf

Immigrants and the Current Economic Crisis: Research Evidence, Policy Challenges, and Implications
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Aaron Terrazas 
Migration Policy Institute, January 2009
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/lmi_recessionJan09.pdf

DHS and Immigration: Taking Stock and Correcting Course
By Doris Meissner and Donald Kerwin
Migration Policy Institute, February 2009
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/DHS_Feb09.pdf

Uneven Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States
By Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix with Peter A. Creticos
Migration Policy Institute, October 2008
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/BrainWasteOct08.pdf

Spotlight on Refugees and Asylees in the United States
By Jeanne Batalova
Migration Policy Institute, July 2009
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=734

Resources

Source US Immigration Policy Resources PDF (222 KB)

MPI Data Hub Connecticut Immigration Statistics PDF (126.5 KB)

MPI Data Hub Massachusetts Immigration Statistics PDF (127.1 KB)

MPI Data Hub United States Immigration Statistics PDF (124.1 KB)

The Presidency in the Age of Obama

Friday, April 9, 2010,    7:30 PM at  Salisbury School

Returning speakers, Todd Brewster and Akhil Reed Amar review the first 444 days of the Obama Presidency from the perspective of their 2008 Forum, “The Perfect President.”

Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Constitutional Law, Yale Law School.

Todd Brewster, Director of Oral History/West Point and The Peter Jennings Chair at The National Constitution Center.

The Constitution In Our Midst

7:30 p.m. at Housatonic Valley Regional High School on Friday, May 14, 2010

Housatonic Valley Regional High School students show documentaries they created as part of a program with Global Village Media in a joint project with the The Connecticut Project for the Constitution, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of public dialogue on issues of constitutional importance. The films - aimed at demonstrating how the Constitution intersects with the students’ own local communities – will be used as a catalyst for discussion between the audience and student film makers about the role and responsibility of public discourse in a Democracy.

Through their film production company, Global Village Media, Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur are partnering with high schools and colleges to educate students in the democratic process and to increase citizen engagement through the use of documentary film production. The student films presented at this Salisbury Forum are the result of that collaboration.

Good Books; Quality News: Publishing and Journalism in the Digital Age

Friday, June 4, 2010, 7:30 PM at The Hotchkiss School
Peter Osnos, Founder of Public Affairs Books and Vice-Chairman of Columbia Journalism Review, draws on decades of experience as a correspondent, editor, publisher and entrepreneur to survey the ways the internet and mobile reading devices are influencing, for better and for worse, the information we receive. The consumer now has far more choices than ever before and the big question of our age is how best to take advantage of those options to assure that quality has the resources necessary to flourish in the future.