Events History
01/28/2012
Lecture with Joseph A. McCartin, Author of Collision Course
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (October 2011). In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both prompt resolution and hostility to organized labor.
09/13/2011
CONSTITUTION DAY 2011
Dutchess Community College. Friday, September 16 at 12 p.m. in Bow Hall, Room 122, Assistant Advocacy Director and Public Policy Council for the New York Civil Liberties Union, Joanna Miller will be speaking at Dutchess Community College for Constitution Day. She authored the report “Education Interrupted: The Growing Use of Suspension in New York City’s Public Schools,” and will speak about civil rights in education and the constitutionality of school safety policies and practices in the nation
05/16/2011
The Eli Jaffe Film Competition
The first ever Eli Jaffe Film Competition culminated Sunday May 15th, 2011 at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, NY with a screening of the five projects selected as finalists. Filmmakers and their friends and families packed the theater to see their projects on the big screen. The Eli Jaffe Film Competition was the first event sponsored by the June and Aaron Gillespie Forum to present student film and video Vassar, Marist, Bard, Dutchess Community College and SUNY New Paltz.
09/12/2010
Panel discussion: Technology and the Future of Journalism
with Kevin Klose, former president of National Public Radio (NPR), Melinda Henneberger, the editor-in-chief of PoliticsDaily.com, Richard K. Wager, retired publisher of the Poughkeepsie Journal, and Stuart Shinske, currently executive editor and director of content and audience development of the Poughkeepsie Journal
09/12/2010
Frances Perkins: The Forgotten Woman Revealed
Co-sponsor with Dutchess Community College Foundation, Kirstin Downey
05/12/2010
2010 The Global Water Crisis: Water as a Human Right or Private Property?
With Maude Barlow
The world is running out of available fresh water and billions are at risk. Already, many conflicts have arisen from this scarcity, paramount among them is the question of whether water should be considered a public trust and a human right or put on the open market for sale like running shoes.
