The philosophy department is pleased to host Jennifer Morton, of CUNY, as part of this year's diversity lecture series. We encourage majors, particularly those who are first generation students, or interested in upward mobility, to attend. Details are as follows:

Dr Jennifer Morton

"The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility"

5:30-7pm, 18 October

Town Hall, Leadership Studies

In this talk, I argue that there are ethical costs upwardly mobile students must bear if they are to dramatically transform their life circumstances. These costs affect their relationships with family and friends, their sense of cultural identity, and their place in their community and they are ethical in so far as they concern those aspects of life that give it value and meaning. Using social science evidence, I show how these costs are the result of a complex tangle of economic, cultural, and structural factors that unjustly and disproportionately affect disadvantaged students and their communities. I suggest that we need to offer students a new ethical narrative of upward mobility that recognizes and acknowledges these ethical costs.