Superintendent Larry Shumway discussed the Utah State Board of Education’s legislative agenda, which includes teacher tenure and merit pay, and reported on how well Utah’s public schools are performing during his State of Utah Education Address Tuesday evening at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.
United States Poet Laureate William S. Merwin spoke at the Salt Lake City Main Library on Wednesday, October 5 as part of the 14th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. Merwin read from his book Migration, a collection of poems from his previous 17 books.
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, author Charles M. Payne presented a lecture titled Strong People Don’t Need Strong Leaders: Building Movements From The Bottom Up as part of the Salt Lake City Library’s Cultural and Religious Pluralism Conference. Payne discussed the work of American Civil Rights activists and their impact in helping create pluralistic societies.
KCPW broadcast a discussion from the Salt Lake City Main Library’s Cultural and Religious Pluralism Conference, called The Role of Youth in Building Pluralistic Society. Young leaders from Salt Lake City shared their perspectives on the role of youth in building a pluralistic society. Here is a podcast of the event.
In his book Growing A Garden City author Jeremy N. Smith documents the creation of an agriculture supported community in Missoula, Montana. Smith spoke at the Salt Lake City Library last night, discussing how creating volunteer powered farms and gardens can help solve community issues like poverty and addiction.
How is the race for clean energy playing out in Utah? What are our assets and challenges? A panel of local experts discussed the current state of clean energy in Utah during the finale of the Nature of Things Lectures on Wednesday, April 6 at the Salt Lake City Library.
Nature Conservancy Senior Scientist Jonathan Hoekstra, lead author of The Atlas of Global Conservation, took part in the 2011 Nature of Things Lecture Series, sponsored by the Utah Museum of Natural History, at the Salt Lake City Main Library on Wednesday, March 16.
Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, delivered the keynote lecture of the 2011 Nature of Things series on March 2 at Kingsbury Hall. The lecture was titled “The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.”
The unrest in Egypt has topped national headlines during the first weeks of 2011. During a round table Friday at the Salt Lake City Library, Native Egyptian experts and Middle East scholars from several Utah universities discussed the facts and causes of the conflict, explained the history and regional influences, and discussed whether democracy is possible for Egypt.
Today, we broadcast a panel discussion KCPW moderated at Sprague Library in Sugar House, called Immigration Policy, the Arizona Experience, hosted by the City Library and the Enriching Utah Coalition. It explored Arizona’s experience with SB 1070, a controversial anti illegal-immigration law in that state, and HB 70, a similar Utah bill that just passed out of the Utah House of Representatives.
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