Baruch College School of Public Affairs presents the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality and Justice in America: "Lack of Access: Barriers to Higher Education." Panelists discuss the structural, financial, racial and political barriers to higher education with the result that millions of young people do not contemplate college, and identify promising practices in American states and cities that address these barriers.

The program is sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York; Lillie & Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality & Justice in America; Center on Equality, Pluralism and Policy, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College; and Urban Education Program, Graduate Center, CUNY.

Moderated by Sonia R. Jarvis, Director, Center on Equality, Pluralism and Policy, School of Public Affairs, the event takes place on October 4, 2007, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220.

[Part I: 60 min.]

Remarks by David Birdsell, Dean, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College
Luncheon Speakers
Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor, CUNY
Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

[Part II: 58 min.]

Moderator: Sonia R. Jarvis, Esq., Director, Center on Equality, Pluralism and Policy, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College
Opening Remarks by Baruch College President Kathleen Waldron
Plenary Session 1
Panelists
Martha Lamkin, President and CEO, Lumina Foundation for Education
Kati Haycock, Director, the Education Trust

[Part III: 59 min.]

Plenary Session 2
Moderator
Dr. Philip M. Anderson, Executive Officer, Urban Education Ph.D. Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
Panelists
Ben M. Corpus, vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, Dean of Students, Baruch College
Lezli Baskerville, Esq., President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
Mary Adams, M.S.W., Program Director, Groundwork for Success

[Part IV: 53 min.]

The first portion of this part is a continuation of the panel discussion from part two.
Dr. Brian Perkins, Professor of Education Law & Policy, Southern Connecticut State University; National School Boards Association
This second section is continued from part three.
Margarita Rosa, Esq., Executive Director, Grand Street Settlement
Professor Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School

[Part V: 56 min.]

Workshop Highlights

Dr. William Zumeta, Professor & Associate Dean, University of Washington, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
George Chin, University Director of Financial Aid, Student Financial Assistance, City University of New York
Dr. Elizabeth Castle, Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota
Reginald Felton, M.A., Director, Federal Relations, National School Boards Association
Anurima Bhargava, Esq., Director of the Education Group, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Dr. Grayson Noley, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Hector Cordero, Program Officer, Economic Development, Ford Foundation
Dr. Sarah Ryan, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College
Vik Keenan, M.A., Coordinator, Zuckerman Forum
Pablo Tejada, Assistant Executive Director, Grand Street Settlement
Dr. Nicole Hurd, Executive Director, The National College Advising Corps, University of North Carolina
Judith Berry Griffin