MILANO GRADUATE SCHOOL'S CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY AFFAIRS
ANNOUNCES FALL 2002 PROGRAMS

(New York, NY – September 10, 2002) The Center for New York City Affairs at New School University's Milano Graduate School announces its fall 2002 public seminars. All seminars are free and open to the public. For reservations to any of the events, call 212-229-5418. The Center for New York City Affairs offers a nonpartisan forum for public dialogue about critical urban issues affecting working class neighborhoods and rapidly changing communities. For more information, contact the Center at 212-229-5418 or visit the Web site at www.newschool.edu/milano/nycaffairs.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

CARRIED AWAY:
Resolving New York's Garbage Crisis

Tuesday, September 17, 10am to noon
Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue

In an effort to save the city money, the Bloomberg administration suspended glass and plastic recycling, and has now set forth a plan to retrofit the city's aged marine transfer stations to carry away residential trash by boat and train. The solutions are bold. Are they
workable?

Moderator: Nevin Cohen, Adjunct Professor, Milano Graduate School, and
co-author of the city's 1989 recycling law
Panelists:
John Doherty, Commissioner, NYC Department of Sanitation
Eddie Bautista, Lead Organizer, Organization of Waterfront
Neighborhoods
Benjamin Miller, author, Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York, The Last
Two Hundred Years
Leslie H. Lowe, consultant, Consumer Policy Institute of Consumers
Union

BREAKING THE CYCLE:
Homeless Families in New York Today

Tuesday, October 1, 10am to noon
Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue

During the 1990s, the city and state reduced the scale of single adult homelessness by investing millions of dollars in supportive housing. Yet the number of homeless families in city shelters has risen steadily and continues to do so, hitting record-breaking highs the last two years.
There were practical answers for singles. Are there equally good solutions for families?

Moderator: Ted Houghton, public policy consultant and former director of program and housing placement, New York City Department of Homeless Services
Panelists:
Linda Gibbs, Commissioner, NYC Department of Homeless Services
Dennis Culhane, Professor of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
Lana Hallstein, Director of Housing & Social Services, Palladia
Latoueya Stanford, Mothers on the Move

TIME FOR A CHANGE:
Reviving the City's Worst Schools

Thursday, October 10, 5pm to 7pm
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue

About one-third of New York City's schools chronically perform below par. Mayor Bloomberg and his new chancellor are now in charge of the education bureaucracy, and have taken on the responsibility for improving these struggling schools. What are the best ideas on the table for meeting this challenge? Should the city's top teachers be sent to the neediest schools? Are more powerful principals the key? What will it take to move from idea to implementation?

Moderator: Abby Goodnough, The New York Times
Panelists:
Norm Fruchter, Director, New York University Institute for Education and Social Policy
Jill S. Levy, President, Council of Supervisors and Administrators
Hon. Robert Jackson, City Council Member
Dennis Walcott, New York City Deputy Mayor for Policy (invited)

THE LIVING WAGE:
Breaking Down the Myths

Thursday, November 14, 10am to noon
Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue

The City Council may soon pass legislation requiring city contractors to pay employees $10 per hour plus benefits by the year 2006. The advocacy debate rages: Will jobs for the poor be slashed? Can living wage laws lift families out of poverty? Will Mayor Bloomberg implement the law, or fight it in the courts?

Moderator: Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times
Panelists:
David Neumark, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University
Paul Sonn, The Brennan Center for Justice
Robert Ward, The Public Policy Institute of New York State
Mimi Turchinetz, Living Wage Administrator, City of Boston (invited)

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ROLLBACK
Tuesday, December 3, 10am to noon
Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue

Court decisions eroding civil rights began during the Clinton years and continue full-force today. Rulings have affected the disabled, minorities, women, immigrants, polluted low-income communities and others. Will members of the city's most fragile neighborhoods be affected? Who is organizing - and litigating - against this tide?

Moderator: Marianne Engelman Lado, New York Lawyers for the Public
Interest and the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights
Panelists:
Edward J. Blakely, Dean, Milano Graduate School
Sandra del Valle, Associate Counsel, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and
Education Fund
Lenora Lapidus, Director, ACLU Women's Rights Project
Norma Ramos, NYC Senior Representative, Sierra Club
Jim Weisman, General Counsel, Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association

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The Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, a division of New School University, offers Master's degree programs in Human Resources Management, Organizational Change Management, Nonprofit Management, Health Services Management and Policy, Urban Policy Analysis, as well as professional development programs in professions that shape the way organizations work, communities function and people live. The School also offers a Ph.D. program in Public and Urban Policy. For further information on the Milano Graduate School, call 212/229-5400 or visit the Web site at www.newschool.edu

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