EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 8:30am–12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18; continental breakfast at 7:45 a.m.

EVENT: What’s at stake in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, now before the U.S. Supreme Court?

A panel of national experts will convene at the University of Michigan to examine Fisher’s role in the extended arc of legal challenges to affirmative action—including the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court cases that ruled on U-M’s undergraduate and Law School admissions—and its potential impact on generations to come. The event is free and open to the public.

The symposium will feature audience discussion and remarks by:

• Nancy Cantor, chancellor and professor, Syracuse University; former dean and provost, U-M; keynote.
• Uma Jayakumar, professor, University of San Francisco; affirmative action and diversity in higher education.
• Katherine Phillips, professor, Columbia University; affirmative action and diversity in the private business sector.
• Gary Orfield, professor, UCLA; director, The Civil Rights Project; strategies and implications for practice with regards to the Fisher case.

The panelists also will review research on the role of diversity in higher education, business, civic engagement and professional leadership.

“It is imperative that private- and public-sector stakeholders engage in this dialogue,” said Phillip J. Bowman, director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity. “We all must understand diversity’s integral role in excellence in all sectors, and the changing legal landscape which defines its implementation.”

PLACE: Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union, 530 South State St, Ann Arbor. Central Campus map: http://campusinfo.umich.edu/article/central-campus-map

REGISTRATION: Requested. http://www.ncid.umich.edu/events/affirmativeaction.shtml

WEBCAST: http://www.ncid.umich.edu

SPONSOR: National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan.

The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) represents a strategic commitment by the University of Michigan to address complex diversity issues within higher education and other major social institutions. The Center promotes national exemplars of diversity scholarship, multi-level engagement, and innovation by operating as a catalyst, venture fund, incubator, clearinghouse, publisher, and think tank. NCID partnerships bridge scholarship with social change through engagement at the campus/institutional, local/state, and national/international levels. Core priorities and activities focus on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the broadest, richest sense—including considerations of race, ethnicity, gender, class, geography, age, culture and viewpoints.