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For immediate release: February 23, 2001
Media advisory:
Former head of Census Bureau to discuss Census 2000
WHO: Kenneth Prewitt, former director of the United States Census Bureau
WHAT: Lecture on "What I Learned about America from Census 2000." Free and open to the public.
WHEN: Monday, March 5, 2001 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bowl 1, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus
Kenneth Prewitt was appointed director of the United States Census Bureau in 1998 by President Bill Clinton. Before joining the Census Bureau, he served as president of the Social Science Research Council and senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Prewitt had responsibility for ensuring that 275 million U.S. residents were correctly counted in Census 2000, and he worked to increase the level of census participation over previous years. He stepped down as head of the Census Bureau in January, and recently announced he would become dean of the graduate faculty at New School University in New York.
The author or co-author of a dozen books, Prewitt has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on advisory boards to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and UNESCO.
This lecture is sponsored by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Survey Research Center. It is free and open to the public.
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