The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Displaying What We Do: Education
Event | June 21, 2013 |
Washington, DC
College Excellence Program
The community college sector faces an urgent leadership challenge that also offers unprecedented opportunity. According to a recent survey by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC),...
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Economic Opportunities Program
May 2013"Inaugural Luminant Power Track Class Graduates, Luminant Power Track, May 10http://www.luminantpowertrack.com/news.php?NID=30April 2013"Working Together to Bridge the Skills Gap"...
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The Business and Society Program is dedicated to developing leaders for a sustainable global society. Through dialogues and path-breaking research, we create opportunities for executives and...
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Economic Opportunities Program
There are many employers that have successful partnerships with community colleges. These partnerships take many different forms. Businesses and community colleges collaborate on curricula...
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Event | May 23, 2013 |
New York, NY
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in his field of superstring theory. His books are widely...
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Business and Society Program
For Corporate Responsibility Executives The Aspen Business & Society Leaders Forum engages, by invitation, senior executives pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a socially...
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Blog Post | May 1, 2013 | Anonymous
Robin Schepper is a senior advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former executive director of the Let’s Move Initiative of the White House. She can be reached at rschepper@bipartisanpolicy....
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Blog Post | January 15, 2013 | Christian Arana
Over the past year, we have learned a lot about the relationship between college graduates’ employment and earnings outcomes on the one hand, and the degrees they earn and colleges they attend on the...
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Publication | January 14, 2013
College Excellence Program
Community colleges have a unique opportunity to enable students to acquire the skills they need to land good jobs with strong wages, but colleges can only fulfill this promise if they are taking...
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