Forums scheduled

Carthage College to host public meetings on Foxconn’s effects.

Kenosha’s Carthage College will host three forums on the effects of the huge Foxconn Technology Group factory planned for nearby Racine County and the trends the project embodies.

The forums will be free. They will include discussions by panels of community leaders and Carthage faculty, with time set aside for audience questions.

Scheduled first is a session Feb. 28 on the effect on local culture and community of Foxconn, a large, Taiwan-based company with extensive manufacturing operations in China.

Among those on the panel will be former Racine Mayor John Dickert.

On March 14, a panel that is scheduled to include Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian will discuss Foxconn’s potential to spur growth in skilled manufacturing, and the stress placed on local infrastructure and government by a factory that could employ as many as 13,000 people.

A March 21 forum will examine the economic trends that have seen governments offer significant incentives to attract companies, and will analyze the expected costs and benefits arising from Wisconsin’s recruitment of Foxconn.

Each forum will run from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in room 107 of the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business on the north end of the Carthage campus, 2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha.