Since its founding in 1945,
Roosevelt University has pursued the mission of providing higher education to
students of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds without quotas or
restrictions. In a variety of ways, the University has attempted to apply the
values of the two great Americans for whom it is name, Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt.
The Institute for Social
Justice, created in 1999 through a generous gift from the Mansfield Foundation,
gives Roosevelt University a unique opportunity to develop an integrated program
of curriculum, research, and outreach focused on social justice issues.
Social Justice Studies is
offered by the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice as a regular part of the
academic curriculum at Roosevelt.
Read with us and join us for thought-provoking discussions.
Bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided.
Former New Yorker and Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Kotlowitz relocated to Chicago in the 1980s to do research
for his first book, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America,
about life inside the city’s public housing projects. His second book, The Other Side of The River: A Story of Two
Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma, delves into racial and socio-economic issues in Benton Harbor and St.
Joseph, Michigan. Kotlowitz’s most recent book, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, chronicles the city he
describes as "a stew of contradictions." Currently, Alex Kotlowitz is a senior lecturer in journalism at Northwestern
University, and he will be the lecturer for Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice in March 2008
when There Are No Children Here is the fifth annual "One Book, One University" selection at Roosevelt. Please contact the Director of the Mansfield Institute, Heather Dalmage, if you'd like more information at 312.341.3692 or by e-mail: hdalmage@roosevelt.edu.
New Directions in the History of Grassroots
Protest Movements in America
Advanced readings of the following books are suggested
for an enriched experience and discussion. Please contact Professor Erik Gellman at egellman@roosevelt.edu
to obtain the readings.
- Session 1: Thursday, March 6th at 3:15: Jim Wolfinger on his book: Philadelphia Divided
- Session 2: Thursday, April 10th at 3:15: Nelson Peery on his new memoir: Black Radical
- Session 3: Thursday, May 1st at 3:15: Martha Biondi, articles TBA on reparations movement and/or origins of Black Studies
Tuesday, Dec. 4 |11:00 am-12:15 pm | AUD244
Roosevelt University's Revolutionary Economics Department, 1945-1955
Join Dr. Rolf Weil, President Emeritus and Professor of Finance and Economics, in a conversation about the thinkers and ideas that shaped Roosevelt's Economics department during the post-World War II period.
This event is free and open to the public. Persons requiring special accommodations or further information should contact Allison Rickard, Mansfield Scholar, Department of Economics.
Email: allison.rickard@mymail.roosevelt.edu, phone: (312) 341-3743.
Tuesday, Dec. 4 | 4:00pm-6:00pm | AUD320
Dorothy Roberts Colloquium
Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia
This event will be limited to 12 sociology students (with graduates
getting first priority) and
12 women and gender studies students (with graduate getting first
priority). Student should
RSVP to probert@roosevelt.edu by Monday, Nov. 26. After that
date, slots will be opened to undergraduates and other interested persons. There will also be a
waiting list, so
undergraduates can RSVP if interested.
One Book, One University:
There Are No Children Here
The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America
Mansfield Lecturer Alex Kotlowitz
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2008
4:30 - 6 p.m.
Congress Lounge
Auditorium Building
Download the event flyer [PDF - 1.3 MB]
"A powerful argument against the politics
of inertia, hopelessness and greed and
for a real war on poverty, violence
and racism in our country."
— Tracy Kidder, author of
Among Schoolchildren
Former New Yorker and Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Kotlowitz relocated to Chicago in the 1980s to do research
for his first book, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America,
about life inside the city’s public housing projects. His second book, The Other Side of The River: A Story of Two
Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma, delves into racial and socio-economic issues in Benton Harbor and St.
Joseph, Michigan. Kotlowitz’s most recent book, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, chronicles the city he
describes as "a stew of contradictions." Currently, Alex Kotlowitz is a senior lecturer in journalism at Northwestern
University, and he will be the lecturer for Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice in March 2008
when There Are No Children Here is the fifth annual "One Book, One University" selection at Roosevelt.
Tubeho Project
November 6 through December 5, 2006
Gender Based Violence
Monday, November 20, 2006 6pm-8pm
Heather Dalmage
Director of the Mansfield
Institute for Social Justice
hdalmage@roosevelt.edu
312-341-3692
Lynn Weiner, Dean
College of Arts and Sciences
THE MANSFIELD INSTITUTE FOR
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Roosevelt University
430 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1394
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