August 20, 2012 Put Your Money Where Your Art Is Participants in the discussion of the draft report “Future of the Arts & Society” included a radio personality, a civil engineer, an adult student, a retired legal community administrator, and...
August 20, 2012 Waste Not, Art Not A Washington, D.C. group of Howard University alumni gathered to discuss a draft report of the Future of the Arts and Society project. They ranged in age from 30 to...
August 7, 2012 Civil Rights and Civic Responsibility Should everyone have equal civil rights? This group felt that civil rights should be based on the highest morality of the people and the people have a civic responsibility to...
August 7, 2012 It’s up to all of us to protect our Civil Rights The group began discussing the issue of civil rights from their own idealistic philosophical points of view. After discussing which populations of people should have certain rights, the group uncovered...
August 2, 2012 What’s the Point of IF’s Public Discussions?* To answer the question directly, the primary objective of public discussion is to promote democratic discussion of policy concerns as a way of contributing to citizens’ individual and social choices...
July 27, 2012 What is meant by Privacy? One of the participants asked us who the biggest threat to our security is. Howard University alumni met to discuss privacy on July 25, 2012 in Maryland. After discussing all...
July 20, 2012 Howard University Discusses Food: What Might Be For Dinner? By: KKelly The discussion of six policy possibilities by six Howard University alumni and students on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 was lively. All of the possibilities provoked ideas that we could...
June 29, 2012 Howard University Takes On Higher Education On Tuesday, June 12, the group discussed all of the six policy possibilities in the Interactivity Foundation report “The Future of Higher Education.” The group began by exploring several possible...
April 12, 2012 Embracing the Random with Howard University Alumni The magic in some discussions come from the unexpected--the stuff you just can't script. That was the lesson in a recent education discussion in Washington, D.C. For several months, the Interactivity...