Sex and Money on Campus

Jeff Harrison
March 23, 2000


WHAT:
"Sex and Money in Higher Education," a lecture by Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Program and the anthropology department at the University of Arizona in Tucson

WHEN:
Wednesday, April 19, 5 -7:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Center for English as a Second Language (CESL), Room 102

CONTACT:
Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, professor of cognitive science, 626-6913, massimo@u.arizona.edu

Universities once used to pretty much be all male enclaves. Not any more, and the changing ratios of men to women at institutions of higher learning are having an impact within and without the ivy walls of academe.

Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, will assess how these gender changes will affect future labor forces, as well as on marriage and domestic patterns. Tiger will also highlight the impact of new sex ratios on the curriculum and on the parents of students who have to provide resources for them. At issue also are the prospects that corporations may one day become the principal suppliers of higher occupational education and how that will affect society.

Lionel Tiger is a native of Montreal and was educated at McGill University and the London School of Economics. He was research director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for twelve years, written many books and currently resides in New York City.

The lecture is free to the public, and parking in UA surface lots during evenings is also free, although there is a charge for parking in UA garages.

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