Pedro Noguera, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco & Carola Suárez-Orozco - Co-Directors of IGEMS

MISSION
The Institute for Globalization & Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS) is dedicated to advancing our understanding of diverse youth growing up in rapidly changing global cities and to promote their education and wellbeing.

RATIONALE
The forces of globalization – trade, technology, migration, and capital flows – are profoundly changing the contexts, experiences and life trajectories of young people in an interconnected world. The risks and opportunities experienced by youth today are intricately interwoven in a complex global interface. While there is a growing recognition that the global economy requires a new paradigm for education for the 21st century, much of the world’s education systems continue to be set in the 20th century mode of rudimentary mass education. This gap presents a challenge for the education and wellbeing of world’s largest-ever generation of adolescents who are approaching adulthood in a rapidly changing global era. The work of IGEMS is devoted to the scholarly understanding of these processes, the identification, and nurturance of promising practices, and the promotion of policy best suited to the dilemmas of youth development in a global era.

PRIORITIES & NEW PERSPECTIVES
IGEMS address these issues by offering an interdisciplinary research, training, and dissemination program focused on the implications of globalization on the education and wellbeing of youth. New York City, the world’s leading Global City, offers an unparallel laboratory for developing work at the nexus of research, training, practice, intervention, and policy making.  Our priorities include:

 

Professors Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Pedro Noguera cordially invite you to join us at the Seminar Series of the Institute for Globalization & Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). The series showcases interdisciplinary research advancing our understanding of diverse youth and families in rapidly changing global cities.

The seminar invites faculty, visiting scholars, advanced graduate students, and guests to present their ongoing and emerging research findings.  The biweekly seminar series is open to the public and meets on Thursdays at 726 Broadway, 5th Floor Conference Room from noon to 1:30.

Contact Information: Carolyn Sattin   –  ces361@nyu.edu

Spring 2008
	Thursday, February 7, 2008 Amy Ellen Schwartz Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics Director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University Do Immigrants Differ from Migrants? Disentangling the Impact of Mobility on High School Completion and Performance
	Thursday, February 21, 2008 (canceled) Jean Anyon Professor of Social and Educational Policy Doctoral Program in Urban Education Graduate Center of the City University of New York Under Funded Urban Schools and the Disappearing Corporate Income Tax
	Thursday, March 6, 2008 William L. Katz Africans and Indians: A Hidden American Alliance
	Thursday, March 27, 2008 The S.I.N. Collective: Yazmin Bastida, Christina Briones, Yazmin Duarte, Kysa Nygreen, Renato Perez, Mariella Saba, Danae Tapia, Miriam Torres University of California-Santa Cruz From Desperation to Action:  Students Informing Now (S.I.N.) Challenge the Racial State in California Without Shame… Sin Vergüenza!
	Thursday, April 10, 2008 Regina Cortina Associate Professor of Education Teachers College, Columbia University Immigrant Youth in High School: Understanding Educational Outcomes for Students of Mexican Origin
Fall 2007
	October 3, 2007 Robert Courtney Smith Associate Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY “Black Mexicans and Assimilation Theory: What Strivers, Thugs and Good Girls Can Teach Us About Immigration, Race and Mobility”
	October 17, 2007 Kay Deaux Distinguished Professor of Psychology Social-Personality Program, CUNY Graduate Center “To be an Immigrant: Ethnicity, Generation and Identity”
	October 31, 2007 James A. Banks Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor of Diversity Studies and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle and currently the Tisch Distinguished Visiting Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University “Worldwide Immigration and Globalization: What are the Challenges and Opportunities for Educating Citizens?”
	November 14, 2007 Selcuk Sirin Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University “Being Muslim, Being American: Identity Negotiation in Difficult Times”
	November 28, 2007 Vivian Louie Associate Professor Harvard Graduate School of Education “On My Own in School: Voices of Second-Generation Dominicans and Colombians”