Wednesday: Dr. James H. Johnson, Jr.
William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, UNC-CH Kenan-Flagler Business School
KEYNOTE: Education Alert: Gale Force Demographic Wind Gusts Ahead!
Come join us for a scintillating discussion of seven powerful demographic forces—analogous to gale force wind gusts in an adverse weather event—that will change K-12 education in America and Florida forever.
Four of the demographic disruptors—slowing total and foreign-born population growth, certain demographic population loss, and declining fertility—have evolved over the past several decades. The remaining three—deaths of despair, cognitive impairments, and declining labor force participation—are rooted in recent crises that have created a major demographic depression in the U.S. age structure. Strategies for moving K-12 education forward in the current era of turbulence and uncertainty will be discussed.
About Dr. James H. Johnson Jr.
Dr. James H. Johnson Jr. is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship in the Kenan-Flagler Business School and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues. He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. Currently he is researching strategies to combat hyper-segregation, persistent and concentrated poverty, and gentrification-induced residential and economic dislocations in U.S. cities. And he currently works with gentrifying cities to develop roadmaps for inclusive and equitable economic development that creates shared prosperity. Fast Company profiled him in “Hopes and Dreams.” He received his PhD from Michigan State University, his MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BS from North Carolina Central University.
