On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, two Jean O’Connor-Snyder undergraduate interns at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) facilitated a deliberative discussion on the documentary film “Concrete, Steel, and Paint.”
April 3, 2012, twelve citizens from Auburn/Lee County, Alabama gathered for a forum at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities. Forum participants represented educational institutions, local
On Thursday, March 29, 2012, seventeen representatives from Alabama Public Television, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and a number of their community partners participated in a lively moderator development workshop sponsored by
On the heels of the Mathews Center’s “Our Community, Our Future” event, which unveiled the Center’s AIF 2010 – 2011 dropout report, a group of Mathews Center staff and Jean
On Saturday, March 24, 2012, nearly 30 citizens gathered at the Davis Center in Birmingham, AL for a forum on childhood obesity. The participants represented numerous schools and Parent Teacher
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, nearly eighty citizens gathered for the unveiling of the Mathews Center’s 2010-2011 Alabama Issues Forums (AIF) comprehensive report (available digitally here!) at an event entitled “Our
Students, faculty, and community members gathered on the evening of February 27, 2012 in the University of Alabama’s Biology Building for a keynote address delivered by T.R. Reid, reporter, author,
The path to a good job is no longer as clear as it once seemed to be. With high unemployment rates as the backdrop, newspaper headlines and reports raise questions
