Higher Education Events

Join Professor John Macionis for an eye-opening webinar on economic inequality in the U.S. Explore the latest data on income and wealth disparities, and preview upcoming topics.

Economic inequality in the United States has increased in recent decades. What, exactly, is happening--and why? This session will provide facts and analysis of an issue that is becoming a major focus of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Social media provides teachers an abundance of pedagogical resources and communication tools, but how do you know which will help you achieve your teaching goals? In this webinar, Nathan Palmer, Editor-in-Chief of SociologyInFocus.com, will help you find the best online teaching resources and offer suggestions for how to incorporate them into your classes. He will also share tips on how to avoid many of the common problems with social media and to use it in a fast and efficient way.

Typically when we hear the word "gender," we think it means women. But Women's and Gender Studies did more than make women visible where they had previously been excluded; it also made gender visible as a central element of our identities. So what do we know about men?