| The Racial Geography of Cleveland Heights |
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Jessica A. Kelley, Ph.D. – Professor of Sociology |
Friday March 6, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room
Kelvin Smith Library*
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
In March, Cleveland Heights will vote on Issue 26, the proposed $7.9 million levy for the CH-UH School District. Recently, City Council voted to support the controversial “Top of the Hill” development. These issues both are related to the demographic and economic trends that are affecting many inner-ring suburbs, in our and other metropolitan areas.
These developments manifest especially in challenges involving housing and education. Education challenges begin with high property taxes and negative perceptions of the quality of the public schools. They are exacerbated by students choosing private schools for many reasons, but that becomes even more likely due to Ohio’s EdChoice program that requires districts to allow students to shift from “D” or “F” public schools to private schools – and take their per-pupil funding with them. Housing can involve decline of housing stock and a shrinking tax base, which in turn shape who moves into, and out of, a community.
What, then, are the trends, causes, and consequences of the demography of Cleveland Heights? Professor Kelley has been constructing a detailed database of the city and its neighborhoods, as part of her wider studies of inner-ring suburbs. She has written on how neighborhood economic status affects outcomes ranging from mental health, to recovery from surgery, to the consequences of aging. She joins us both to describe Cleveland Heights’ situation and to discuss policy challenges facing the city and other inner-ring suburbs.
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Professor Jessica A. Kelley studies the causes and consequences of health disparities over the life course, particularly those related to race, socioeconomic status, and disability. She has expertise in the quantitative analysis of longitudinal and panel data, including latent trajectories and multilevel modeling. Her recent research has focused on: life course influences on later-life functional disparities among Black and White adults; how cohort trends and social change affect later-life health profiles; social influences on the experience of disability; neighborhoods and social exclusion of older adults.
Jessica currently serves as Co-Editor (with Dr. Roland J. Thorpe, Jr. of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) of the book series Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics. She is also Associate Editor of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Aging and Health, Research on Aging, and Journal of Aging and Social Policy. Jessica currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Resource Center for Minority Data at ICPSR. She also recently completed terms as Chair of the Section on Aging and the Life Course in the American Sociological Association and Member-at-Large for the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America.
Some of her previous work focused on issues of access to healthy food in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. Jessica is featured on NetWellness.com discussing family-based strategies for healthy eating. She also completed a cooking-based intervention project for residents of public housing. The project was featured on WVIZ in a story on Be Well: Obesity – Poverty and Food Deserts.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.
* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.
Parking Possibilities
The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
March 13: Spring Break
March 20: Taking Away the Car Keys (from seniors). With Weidi Qin, MSW, MPH, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
March 27: China’s Tibet Dilemma at a Crossroads. With Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ph.D., John Reynolds Harkness Professor in Anthropology and Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet.
April 3: Creating Army Officers for the 21st Century. With Lt. Col. Brian Ferguson, Professor of Military Science, John Carroll University.
April 10: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over Health Effects of Red Meat. With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.
April 17: Targeted Assassinations, and Other Red or Not-So-Red Lines. With Shannon French, Ph.D., Inamori Professor of Ethics and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence.
April 24: Regulating Content of Online Platforms. With Raymond Ku, J.D., Professor and Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar, CWRU School of Law. |
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March 1, 2020
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Upcoming Events
Prison Abolition and a Mule
A discussion with Paul Butler, J.D., Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and legal analyst on MSNBC, Wednesday March 18, 2020, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), CWRU School of Law, 11075 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Incarceration is a relatively recent development in the history of punishment, with the first modern prison constructed in Philadelphia in the early 1800s. The American penitentiary was intended as a reform, making the institution of punishment more humane and rehabilitative. Because the United States now locks up more people than almost any country in the history of the world, this nation is perhaps the best laboratory to assess the success of the experiment. By virtually any measure, prisons have not worked. They are sites of cruelty, dehumanization, and violence, as well as subordination by race, class, and gender. Prisons traumatize virtually all who come into contact with them. Abolition of prison could be the ultimate reform. The lecture will suggest what would replace prisons, how people who cause harm could be dealt with in the absence of incarceration, and why abolition would make everyone safer and our society more just.
Professor Butler is one of the nation’s most frequently consulted scholars on issues of race and criminal justice. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News. He lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the United States. Professor Butler’s scholarship has been published in many leading scholarly journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review and the UCLA Law Review. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003. Professor Butler is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.
The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
A discussion with Richard J. Lazarus, J.D., Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, Wednesday April 15, 2020, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), CWRU School of Law, 11075 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106. Sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law
Richard Lazarus will be lecturing about his book, “The Rule of Five”, which is the gripping inside story of how an unlikely team of lawyers and climate activists overcame conservative opposition—and their own divisions—to win the most important environmental case ever brought before the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court announced its ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA the decision was immediately hailed as a landmark. But this was the farthest thing from anyone’s mind when Joe Mendelson, an idealistic lawyer working on a shoestring budget for an environmental organization no one had heard of, decided to press his quixotic case.
The Rule of Five tells the story of their unexpected triumph. We see how accidents, infighting, luck, superb lawyering, and the arcane practices of the Supreme Court collided to produce a legal miracle. An acclaimed advocate, Richard Lazarus reveals the personal dynamics of the justices and dramatizes the workings of the Court. The final ruling, by a razor-thin 5–4 margin, made possible important environmental safeguards which the Trump administration now seeks to unravel.
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