Topic Area Presentation Readings

Education:

Higher Education (Is college worth it?):

http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth/

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-what-it

http://www.pewstates.org/research/reports/promoting-economic-mobility-by-increasing-postsecondary-education-85899376351

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/09/09/megan-mcardle-on-the-coming-burst-of-the-college-bubble.html

With some recommended links:

http://chronicle.com/section/College-Reinvented/656

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/meet-the-high-priest-of-runaway-college-inflation-he-regrets-nothing/263032/

http://salary.com/8-college-degrees-that-will-earn-your-money-back/

http://salary.com/8-college-degrees-with-the-worst-return-on-investment/

Inequality:

Russell Sage Foundation Book Social Inequality (available from DuPuis)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-a-hearing-on-why-kids-throw-stones-at-metro-buses-no-one-spoke-for-the-kids/2012/12/04/96ef6826-3e69-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

Health: 

Obesity a personal responsibility problem?

Book Weighing In by Julie Guthman

Mark Bitmann: “Tax Soda, Subsidize Vegetables”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24bittman.html

Kathleen Parker: “Eat, Drink, and Watch Out”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/health-reform-and-obesity-eat-drink-and-watch-out/2011/05/20/AFoQ427G_story.html

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.oca.ucsc.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01017.x/full

Environment:

Are cities sustainable?

Owen, "Green Manhattan."

Books Researching Sustainability and The Sustainable Urban Development Reader available from DuPuis

DuPuis' Sustainability Research Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/211890155491678/