Virginia Institute of Government Update January 2021
By Charles Hartgrove
The Virginia Institute of Government is excited to announce two new programs for the first quarter of 2021. VIG will be hosting a virtual training session on the topic of Succeeding as a First-Time Supervisor on Wednesday, January 27. This will be a live, interactive session from 10am to noon. If you or your staff have any questions about registration, please contact our training and research coordinator, Mike Scheid, at mike.scheid@virginia.edu.
We are also pleased to announce that we will host academic and author, Richard Rothstein, at a virtual seminar on March 2. Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation.
He is also the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found on his web page at the Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epi.org/people/richard-rothstein/. Previous influential books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap and Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right.
He will discuss The Color of Law and how communities and institutions have evolved since its original publication in 2017. He will also participate in a question-and-answer session for our participants. Specific details will be announced shortly.
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Wishing that 2021 is vastly superior than last year for all of us!