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The Aspen Institute Names Top 150 U.S. Community Colleges Eligible for 2021 Aspen Prize

The 150 community colleges named today as eligible to compete for the 2021 Prize were selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 public two-year colleges nationwide using publicly available data on student outcomes. Located in 39 states in urban, rural, and suburban areas, serving as few as 500 students and as many as 75,000 students, these colleges represent the diversity and depth of the community college sector.

11.06.2019
Aspen Institute Appoints Richard Stettner VP for Aspen Campus Facilities and Operations

In this newly created role, Stettner will oversee the Institute’s historic Aspen Meadows campus facilities in Aspen, CO, and will be responsible for planning and managing all aspects of capital projects and day-to-day campus operations.

10.31.2019
CityLab Summit in Washington, D.C. Concludes with Conversations on Citizen Activism, Cities Confronting Climate Change and Improving Inequities in Maternal Health

CityLab DC gathered over 500 city leaders, practitioners, planners, architects, artists, economists, business leaders, tech innovators, urban scholars, and other civic leaders—representing 169 cities across 30 countries. Forty-four mayors attended CityLab DC from the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

10.30.2019
Mothers Out Front Awarded $100,000 McNulty Prize for Mobilizing Moms to Demand Bold Action on Climate Change

Co-founded in 2013 by Wirth and Vanessa Rule, Mothers Out Front uses a proven model of grassroots organizing, and has trained and empowered mothers and others who are influencing decision-makers and showing up in force. Much of their work is focused on building power in frontline communities — low-income communities and communities of color that have been hit hardest by the health and environmental costs of the climate crisis.

10.30.2019
15 Major US Companies Take Action to Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap Through Aspen Cybersecurity Group

The Aspen Cybersecurity Group today announced commitments from fifteen industry representatives to address the mounting shortfall in the nation’s cyber security workforce.

10.30.2019
Aspen Institute Puts Forward Framework to Transform U.S. Criminal Justice Continuum

The report takes a comprehensive approach to reforming the entire “criminal justice continuum,” with emphasis on how each segment has a direct causal effect on the others.

10.29.2019
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