A college degree is still the strongest path to personal prosperity, social mobility, and an engaged citizenry. Yet, rising costs, government cut-backs, shrinking Pell grants, and even some universities' willingness to trade financial aid for national rankings have combined to place a huge burden on low- and middle-income students.

This decade more than four million qualified students will be denied access to the life-transforming experience that is a college education, simply because it is beyond the financial reach of their families.

Are colleges destined to become gated communities available only to the wealthy? Or is higher education a societal investment whose returns far outweigh the costs?

Join Suffolk University and a nationally-renowned panel of thinkers, writers, scholars, and government leaders as they ask the tough questions--and provide some hard answers--about the growing divide between the promise of the American Dream and what we as a nation are actually delivering.

Panelists include: Lewis Lapham, Keynote Speaker; Richard D. Kahlenberg; Thomas G. Mortenson; Dr. Rodney Paige; Dr. Blenda J. Wilson.

Event open to all.