diversity in higher education
The Roosevelt Institution and Yale will bring college administrators, elected officials, social advocates and students together Friday-Saturday, Oct. 6-7, to discuss solutions to the challenge of increasing socioeconomic diversity in higher education.
The conference, "A Seat at the Table: Socioeconomic Diversity and Access to Selective Colleges and Universities," is a response to the Roosevelt Challenges, a national program coordinating the efforts of students across the country to find creative policy solutions to the three most important problems facing students today. Yale is hosting the conference on the 40th anniversary of its adoption of need-blind admissions.
William G. Bowen, president emeritus of the Mellon Foundation and author of "Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education," and President Richard C. Levin will deliver the keynote addresses at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. This session of the program is free and open to the public.
Saturday's sessions, which are open only to invited participants, will be led by Chaka Fattah, U.S. representative for the 2nd District of Pennsylvania; Myra Smith, director of financial aid services for the College Board; Anthony M. Marx, president of Amherst College; Jerome Karabel, co-director of the Berkeley Project on Equal Opportunity and author of "The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton"; and Richard Kahlenberg, senior fellow with The Century Foundation, author of "The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action" and editor of "America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education." Each session will bring policymakers, school administrators and students together for constructive discussions of issues ranging from financial aid packages to outreach programs.
For further information, see http://rooseveltinstitution.org/edconference/program.
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