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11. Keeping America in Business: Advancing Workers, Businesses and Economic Growth

Publication Date:
02-2003
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
At the close of their discussions, the participants in the 102nd American ;Assembly on “Achieving Worker Success and Business Prosperity: The New Role for Workforce Intermediaries,” at Arden House, Harriman, New York, February 6-9, 2003 reviewed as a group the following statement. The statement represents general agreement; however, no one was asked to sign it. Furthermore, it should be understood that not everyone agreed with all of it.
Topic:
Economics, Education, and Government
Political Geography:
United States, New York, and America

12. Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-first Century

Author:
Robert Giloth
Publication Date:
11-2003
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
Confronted with businesses facing a long-term shortage of skilled workers and evaluations showing that job training for the poor over the past 25 years had produced only meager results, a number of groups throughout the country have sought to find a more effective approach. The efforts of these partnerships, which editor Robert Giloth calls 'workforce intermediaries', are characterized by a focus on improving business productivity and helping low-income individuals not just find a job, but advance over time to jobs that enable them to support themselves and their families. This book takes stock of the world of workforce intermediaries: entrepreneurial partnerships that include businesses, unions, community colleges, and community organizations. Noted scholars and policy makers examine the development and effectiveness of these intermediaries, and a concluding chapter discusses how to provide a more coherent approach to increasing the viability and capacity of these important institutions.
Topic:
Economics, Education, Human Welfare, International Trade and Finance, and Labor Issues
Political Geography:
Global Focus

13. The Future of the Accounting Profession

Publication Date:
11-2003
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
America is many things. At our core we are a commercial society. Our commercial society underwrites our prosperity. It is the basis not just for jobs and for wealth creation unparalleled in history, but more broadly it is a vehicle for consumer choice and upward mobility, the financier of our great cultural and educational institutions, and the basis for the income of a democratic government that has provided the world with its longest-lived constitution and history’s most open and free society.

14. Building a More United America: Final Report of the Uniting America Series

Publication Date:
05-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
National unity in ordinary times is a preposterous ambition—at least according to some of the shrewdest leaders history has produced. “Only peril can bring the French together,” said Charles de Gaulle. “One can't impose unity...on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.” Anyone watching the United States after September 11, 2001 knows there is truth in de Gaulle's quip: External threat is always the surest route to solidarity. The need to survive often breaks down barriers of class, race, sex, faith, ideology, ethnicity, and more.
Topic:
Economics, Nationalism, and Religion
Political Geography:
United States and America

15. Art, Technology and Intellectual Property

Publication Date:
02-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
At the close of their discussions, the participants in the 100th American Assembly on "Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property," at Arden House, Harriman, New York, February 7-10, 2002, reviewed as a group the following statement. While the statement represents general agreement, no one was asked to sign it. Furthermore, it should be understood that not everyone agreed with all of it, and some vigorously disagreed with some of it.
Topic:
Economics, Education, and Science and Technology
Political Geography:
United States, New York, and America

16. Conducting Your Community Dialogue: A Companion to Building a More United America

Publication Date:
01-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
A companion piece to Building a More United America: Final Report of the Uniting America Series, Conducting Your Community Dialogue is designed to help groups and individuals organize and carry out a community dialogue about issues addressed in the earlier report. Roles for discussants and sample questions for facilitating discussions are included.

17. Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property

Publication Date:
02-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
This report from the 2002 American Assembly of the same name explores the transformation of law, enforcement, and artistic practice as digital technologies change the conditions for the creation and circulation of cultural works. The report reflects input from a wide range of stakeholders who would play important roles in the next decade of debates over intellectual property policy.

18. Building a More United America: Final Report

Publication Date:
03-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
“Following the discussions of this Assembly, and the foundation established over the last four years, we now have a report citizens around the country can draw upon to move us forward as a united people,” said David Gergen, Uniting America co-chair, U.S. News and World Report editor-at-large, and professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Under the leadership of David Gergen, Karen Elliott House and Don McHenry, participants finalized a report entitled “Bulding a More United America,” which served as a starting point for groundbreaking community dialogues across the country. The Uniting America project fostered dialogue on some of the most challenging issues in American life, from religion, to race, to economic justice, to the changing composition of the family. In the course of six Assemblies convened over four years, participants worked to find common ground on these issues and common strategies for strengthening the democratic processes that allow us to work through them. Collectively, the Uniting America events brought together some 300 scholars, practitioners, business leaders, and policymakers. The project produced a series of reports, and a very successful book: Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future.

19. Reweaving the Social Tapestry: Toward a Public Philosophy and Policy for Families

Author:
Don S. Browning and Gloria G. Rodriguez
Publication Date:
01-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
Families can play a pivotal role in bringing America to greater unity, but even the definition of "family" can be divisive. The authors seek to identify the underlying values in these debates, find common ground among diverse traditions, and clarify the supporting roles of government, business, and civil society.

20. Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America

Author:
Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, and Manuel Pastor
Publication Date:
04-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
American Assembly at Columbia University
Abstract:
A wide-ranging and in-depth discussion of the persistently divisive issues surrounding race in this country. Race is easily the defining point of American disunity. Often discussed in black and white, today's racial divide includes growing numbers of Hispanics and Asian Americans, as well as Native Americans. By broadening the parameters of the racial dialogue, this book brings a new perspective to an essential American issue. The American Assembly of Columbia University commissioned this volume as part of its Uniting America series.