The Norbert O. Schedler Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas announces Challenge Week 2014, taking place from October 20 through October 24. This year’s theme is entitled, “Is Work Working? Meaning, Making, and Mobility in 21st Century America.”
Americans have for generations located their identities, hopes, and dreams in work. How is work working for us in the first two decades of the 21st Century? Challenge Week 2014 explores issues that make up the bedrock of the American dream, such as intergenerational upward mobility, the meaning in our work, the possibility of grounding our identities based on what we do and how we do it, and if the American Dream is still viable in the 21st century.
“Challenge Week brings to campus nationally known thinkers to engage the community in a reflective interchange of ideas. Speakers present compelling arguments to UCA students, faculty and staff, and to the broader community, in an effort to inform, educate, and thoughtfully address contemporary problems and concerns,” said Dr. Rick Scott, dean of the Schedler Honors College.
All events take place on the UCA campus and are free and open to the public. Receptions with refreshments follow each event.
Sponsoring partners include UCA Student Government Association, Honors Center Society, UCA Department of Sociology, Farris Lecture Series, and Flanagin Lecture Series.
The Schedler Honors College was founded in 1982 and engages students in interdisciplinary study of classic thought and contemporary issues, helping them express leadership in the larger world as citizen-scholars.
For more information, please contact Dr. Rick Scott at ricks@uca.edu or (501) 450-3198.
Challenge Week 2014 Speakers and Events
Panel Discussion—Monday, 10/20, 3-4 PM, Student Center 215
• John Toth, Doug George, Ed Powers (UCA Department of Sociology)
• Topic—Intergenerational Social Mobility
Juliet B. Schor—Tuesday, 10/21, 7-8:15 PM, CoB Lecture Hall
• Professor of Sociology at Boston College, having taught previously at Harvard University for 17 years in economics
• Farris Lecture—Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
• Book Signing Follows
Matthew B. Crawford—Thursday, 10/23, 1:40-2:30 PM Student Center Ballroom
• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
• Flanagin Lecture—Shop Class as Soulcraft
• Book Signing Follows
Soapbox—Friday, October 24, 3-4:15 PM, Farris Presentation Room
• Student-led discussion on income distribution by Colby Qualls and Sarah Maxam
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