SPRING 2025 SEMINARS OF THE ROBERT N. BUTLER COLUMBIA AGING CENTER | Assets of Aging: A Series on the Capabilities that Accrue with Longer Lives

Join us for the Columbia Aging Center’s VIRTUAL seminar–the next in a series that focuses on the assets of aging and the capabilities that accrue with longer lives. Please register to attend on February 19, 2025. Details and registration link below.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY  19, 2025, 11:00AM-12:00PM ET

Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life 

Sam Pressler

Practitioner Fellow

University of Virginia, Karsh Institute of Democracy

Research Affiliate Harvard University Human Flourishing Program

Virtual Seminar

Location: Zoom

Register to attend via Zoom at: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/-6CChb97QzOhPvJnsE_qMA

Abstract: Civic life in America has grown increasingly sorted by class since the mid-20th century. Today, your level of educational attainment is the greatest predictor of whether you’ll have access to civic opportunities in your neighborhood, whether you’ll be a member of a community or religious group, and whether you’ll have close friends and social support in your adult life. In this talk, we’ll dive deeper into these trends, explore theories on what caused these dynamics, and discuss their myriad consequences.

Please also see: https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/disconnected-places-and-spaces/