UMass Lowell's International Film Series

UMass Lowell’s International Film Series continues with a screening of Finnish director, Aki Kaurismäki's "The Other Side of Hope" on Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m., O'Leary Library, Room 222.

"The Other Side of Hope", a wry, melancholic comedy, a clear-eyed response to the current refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home.

As deadpan as the best of the director's work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference.

Professor Thomas Hersey of the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will lead the conversation.

The film is free to the campus community.

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Period. End of Sentence.

The UMass Lowell Sociology & Gender Studies Departments present a free showing and discussion of the Oscar-Winning short film "Period. End of Sentence." on Monday, March 4, 2019 at 7 p.m.

The film will screen at the Luna Theater in Mill No. 5, 250 Jackson St. in downtown Lowell.

In a rural village outside Delhi, India, women lead a quiet revolution. They fight against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation. "Period. End of Sentence." -- a documentary short directed by Rayka Zehtabchi -- tells their story.

A discussion led by Olivia Descrochers, Fiona Jamal, and Susan Thomson Tripathy will follow the screening.

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Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education by Nathan D. Grawe

Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest.

As a result, the Northeast and Midwest—traditional higher education strongholds—expect to lose 5 percent of their college-aged populations between now and the mid-2020s.

Furthermore, and in response to the Great Recession, child-bearing has plummeted. In 2026, when the front edge of this birth dearth reaches college campuses, the number of college-aged students will drop almost 15 percent in just 5 years.

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