“Is it okay to pay for a little, or a lot, of help?” This session focused on the topic of paying for grades.

It’s crunch time before the big test and you need notes. You forgot about your paper on Moby Dick, and it’s due tomorrow, and you haven’t even started reading. Time constraints can threaten the best of students. Is it okay to pay for a little, or a lot, of help?

November 20, 2009
2:00-6:00 pm

The Geary Institute
University College Dublin

This one-day conference brings researchers, program directors, organizers, activists, and government officials together to address questions of how migrant and refugee organizations and universities can develop collaborative and cost effective ways to meet contemporary challenges and take advantage of opportunities.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Mary Doyle at:
mary.doyle@ucd.ie or Tel: 01 716 4643.

For migrant and refugee groups the current environment has redefined existing challenges and created a host of new ones. With these challenges also come opportunities. Universities are creative problem solvers in both the laboratory and in the everyday world. Can migrant and refugee organizations and universities develop collaborative and cost effective ways to meet contemporary challenges and take advantage of opportunities?

This one-day conference brings researchers, program directors, organizers, activists, and government officials together to address these questions. Following a keynote and panel participants will work in small focus groups. The focus groups will conclude with an interface identifying outstanding needs within the migrant communities and confirmation of new workshops to address these issues in early 2010. These new workshops will seek to illustrate how university ways of seeing, understanding, and problem solving might assist community based organizations in their work.

Program Overview
Registration Begins at 1:00 pm

Keynote Address by
Chinedue Onyejelem
Editor and Publisher, Metro Eireann

With Responses from
Niall Crowley and Steve Garner

Other speakers include
Sioban O’Brien Green, AkidWa
Paul Rowe, Educate Together
Rebecca King-O’Riain, NUI Maynooth Sociology

Focus Groups

Concluding Remarks and Reception

Select members of the Roundtable discussed the proposed immigration policy changes.

This panel event was hosted by The Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Moderator:
David Quigley, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Featured speakers:
Noah Pickus, Kenan Institute for Ethics
Peter Skerry, BC Political Science Department

Respondents:
Daniel Kanstroom, BC Law School
Jessica Vaughan, Center for Immigration Studies at BC

Select members of the Roundtable discussed the proposed immigration policy changes. This event featured Roundtable participants Peter Skerry, Noah Pickus, and Michele Wucker, along with commentator Edward Schumacher-Matos, director of the Harvard Inter-Faculty Initiative on Immigration and Integration Policy and Studies at the Kennedy School of Government and the ombudsman for the Miami Herald.

Institute Senior Fellow Dorren McMahon discussed the educational incorporation of immigrant children in Ireland. Ireland has recently experienced a rapid growth in its rate of immigration, which has left policymakers struggling to provide for the educational, social, and economic needs of this expanding immigrant population. McMahon, who is also the Youth Inequalities Project Team Leader of the Geary Institute, at the University College of Dublin,  discussed the problems currently faced by this new immigrant populationand described how they are rooted in official Irish responses to immigrant arrival in the 1990s. This event was held by the Institute in partnership with the Social Sciences Research Institute at Duke University.

iThink is an exciting new program sponsored by the students of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. This for students-by students event is an opportunity to talk about ethics in the everyday in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Each week brings a new topic (and delicious food).

For the inaugural event we discussed invisible ethics–how our everyday actions affect our world. Our focus was on consumerism and production. Could you be harming the environment when you buy a soda? How do your new shoes affect someone’s life? Consumerism is rife with ethical issues that we wanted to explore, and we asked participants to bring an open mind and an empty stomach for friendly conversation and fondue.

Ian Buruma discussed the dire warnings coming from a variety of writers and politicians, in Europe and the U.S., about Europe being “Islamized” by an increasing population of intolerant Muslims.

This event was cosponsored by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Office of the University President.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.  He is the author of Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. He writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, The Financial Times, and The Guardian.