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Race and Gender Preferences at the Crossroads
Event
Start :
Saturday, January 19, 2008 08:30 AM
End :
Saturday, January 19, 2008 05:00 PM
Location : Davidson Conference Center
University of Southern California
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| 8:30 a.m | Continental Breakfast | | | | | 9:00 a.m | THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY PREFERENCES.
Chair: Glynn Custred (Anthropology, CSU East Bay).
Richard H. Sander (Law, UC Los Angeles), "An Overview of Empirical Research on the Costs and Benefits of Preferences to Minorities in Higher Education."
John M. Ellis (Literature, UC Santa Cruz), “How Preferences have Corrupted Higher Education.”
Peter Wood (Executive Director, National Association of Scholars), “Clientage and Contumely: How Group Preferences Foster Dependency and Resentment."
| | | | | 11:00 a.m. | KEYNOTE ADDRESS.
Ward Connerly (Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute), “On the Road to Equal Rights.”
| | | | | Noon | Luncheon
| | | | | 1:30 p.m | THE RESULTS OF PROPOSITION 209 AND ITS PROGENY
Chair: Thomas Wood (President, Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences).
Carl Cohen (Philosophy, University of Michigan), “Bad Arguments Defending Racial Preference.”
Charles Geshekter (History, CSU Chico), “Public Employment, Faculty Hirings and Student Graduation Numbers: California Ten Years After Proposition 209."
Gail Heriot (Law, University of San Diego), “Student Admissions since 209.”
| | | | | 4:00 p.m. | THE FUTURE OF PREFERENCES.
Chair: Roger Clegg (President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity).
Jennifer Gratz (Executive Director, Michigan Civil Rights Initiative), “Outlook on Super Tuesday 2008: Five States, One Tuesday.”
Joseph R. Hicks (Vice President, Community Advocates Inc.), “The New Frontier: Envisioning an American Nation beyond Racial Preferences and Color-Coded Public Policy.”
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The conference is organized by the California Association of Scholars (www.calscholars.org) and cosponsored by the American Civil Rights Institute (www.acri.org) and the Center for Equal Opportunity (www.ceousa.org).
Registration Detail
The conference registration fee of $35 (students $20) covers all meetings and a catered lunch. For further information or to register, contact the California Association of Scholars by email: calscholars@mac.com, by phone: 831-476-1144, or by fax: 831-476-1188.
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