| The affirmative action case pending in the Supreme Court, Fisher v. University of Texas, has important implications for the future of access to higher education in both the public and private sectors. Today issues of race in higher education are wide-ranging and extend far beyond the issues of admissions and affirmative action. This forum will address both the specifics of admissions and affirmative action. This forum will address both the central issues in the Fisher case and broader questions regarding the future of race in American higher education. Our presenters are distinguished leaders from the fields of social science research; constitutional law; race studies; public policy and academic leadership.Friday, March 4, 2016 8:30 a.m – 11:30 a.m. New York University, Silver Center |
| Host:Ann Marcus Professor of Higher Education Director of the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy Welcome: Dominic Brewer |
Speakers:Stella Flores Stella M. Flores is Associate Professor of Higher Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is also Director of Access and Equity at the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy at NYU. In her research she employs large-scale databases and quantitative methods to investigate the effects of state and federal policies on college access and completion rates for low-income and underrepresented populations.
Trevor Morrison Randall Kennedy Mark Yudof Mary Schmidt Campbell |
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March 4- Beyond Fisher: The Supreme Court and The Future of Race in American Higher Education
Trevor Morrison is the Dean and Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He was previously the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He spent 2009 in the White House, where he served as associate counsel to President Barack Obama. Before entering academia, he was a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1998-99) and to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has written for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His most recent book is For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013).
Mark G. Yudof is a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley and President Emeritus of the University of California where he served as its 19th president from 2008 to 2013. He is an authority on constitutional law, freedom of expression and education law. Prior to joining the University of California, Yudof served as chancellor of the University of Texas system from 2002 to 2008. He also served as president of the four-campus University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2002.
Mary Schmidt Campbell began her tenure as the 10th president of Spelman College in 2015. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman is dedicated to the education of women of African descent. Dr. Campbell is Dean Emerita of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and NYU University Professor of Art and Public Policy. Prior to her tenure at NYU, Dr. Campbell served as the New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner and Director of the Studio Museum of Harlem.↧