Our university life program coordinates with partners across campus to generate a university-wide conversation on the COMPAS topic. University life activities have included partnerships with the Buckeye Book Community, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and many other units.
See below for events related to the 2016-17 theme of Inequality being held around campus this year!
Spring Semester
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library presents
Windows on Death Row
Wexner Center for the Arts presents
"I am Not Your Negro"
The Ohio State Veritas Forum presents
The Future of Work – Technological Innovation, Economic Disruption, and Human Dignity
- Bruce Weinberg, Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Ohio State
- Joe Kaboski, Professor of Economics, Notre Dame
- Michael Smith, Professor of Information Systems and Marketing , Carnegie Mellon
Fall Semester
First Year Experience: Success Series
"Successful first-year students at Ohio State are those who learn how to utilize resources, resolve problems and prepare themselves to take full advantage of their time on campus." The COMPAS program is pleased to collaborate with the Success Series by co-organizing events related to themes from this year's Buckeye Book selection.
Buckeye Book Community
Wes Moore, Author of The Other Wes Moore
For ticket information, please visit the Buckeye Book Community webpage.
National Issues Forums
As part of our Success Series offerings related to The Other Wes Moore, the Center for Ethics and Human Values is working with the non-partisan National Issues Forum Institute (NIF) to host a series of moderated online student forums on the topic of economic inequality. These moderated discussions for incoming OSU students will utilize the innovative Common Ground for Action program developed by NIF and the Kettering Foundation, which encourages participants to grapple with various policy options and hone skills for effective democratic communication. Students may sign up at the Success Series registration page.
COMPAS Sponsored Success Series Events
In addition to working with the Buckeye Book Community and National Issues Forum Institute, many of the events sponsored by COMPAS this fall are Success Series events:
- Each session of our Fall COMPAS Conference
- The President and Provost's Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series: Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Two Cheers for Equality"
- Continuing the Sustainability Conversation: Facts and Values: How Does Science Inform Democracy?
Wexner Center for the Arts
Birth of a Nation: Discussion and Screening
Discussion: September 19, Mershon Auditorium
Screening: September 20, Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Prompted by extensive media coverage and commentary about The Birth of a Nation related—but not limited to—sexual assault charges filed in 1999 against Parker and his former college roommate (Jean McGianni Celestin, who shares a story credit on the film), the Wexner Center has invited esteemed colleagues from across The Ohio State University to engage in an informed dialogue about the multiple issues in the spotlight. The film will be screened at the Wex the following night.
Frederick Wiseman x 3
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
“Frederick Wiseman is a keen analyst of institutions…The method and substance of his analyses, though, is the proof of his genius. Wiseman…doesn’t so much film institutions as discover them.”—Richard Brody, New Yorker
- September 14: Titicut Follies
- September 21: High School
- September 29: Hospital
Do Not Resist (Atkinson, 2016)
The Freedom to Marry (Eddie Rosenstein, 2016)