What keeps many academically successful, low-income students from going to college? (Hint: It’s not the cost.) What can Disney Pixar teach us about creativity in the workplace? How will climate change impact global food security? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and share the most insightful and informative links to answer these questions, and more.
Scroll down to see tweets from across the Institute this week about what’s topical right now. Follow our @AspenInstitute list on Twitter for updates and to keep up with each program’s events, video, and experts, and let us know what you’re reading in the comments section below.
.@MarkMazzettiNYT reports CIA slow to refocus from drone war, bureaucratic turf fights contributing to delay http://t.co/V8X1VKfO4e
— Aspen Security Forum (@AspenSecurity) April 10, 2014
Lessons Learned from @DisneyPixar: creativity & the importance of communication in the workplace
http://t.co/OawXk4hTe5 @FastCompany
— Aspen BSP (@AspenBizSociety) April 10, 2014
Indiana to help fund childcare for low-income families http://t.co/fvJ8D161Bv #2Gen #FamilyEconomicSuccess #childcare #RuralFamilies
— Aspen CSG (@AspenCSG) April 10, 2014
.@Starbucks Works with @CityYear to Invest in Communities and Student Success http://t.co/IzcwLA3URq
— The Franklin Project (@FranklinProj) April 9, 2014
#ClimateChange will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank http://t.co/2k03nSLd33 via @guardian
— AMP (@AMPGlobal) April 8, 2014
What happens to low-income students on the way to college? Via @libbyanelson and the new @voxdotcom http://t.co/XydY5AkO5F #2gen
— Aspen Ascend (@AspenAscend) April 7, 2014