Debating Diversity: Approaches to Equity and Opportunity in a Changing Democracy

Sue Kroeger is the Director of Disability Resources at the University of Arizona. Prior to coming to Arizona in 1999, she was the Director of Disability Services at the University of Minnesota for 14 years. She manages a staff of 40 full and part-time employees that provide services to faculty, staff, and students with disabilities, assists the university in meeting its obligations, and provides consultation and education. Her presentation was given on April 26, 2011.

A transcript of Professor Williams' January 27, 2011 presentation.

Tom Anderes was appointed president of the Arizona Board of Regents in 2010 after having served as senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs at the University of Wisconsin system. Prior to his 2008 appointment with the University of Wisconsin system, Anderes served as senior vice president for administration and finance for the Oregon University System. Additionally, he served as interim chancellor from 1999-2000 for the University and Community College System of Nevada. For a six-year period that began in 1978, Anderes served as Arizona State University's assistant director of university budgets. He earned his undergraduate and M.P.A. degrees from the University of Arizona before going on to earn a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Connecticut. He spoke on April 21, 2011.

Question and answer session with Dr. Tom Anderes, President, Arizona Board of Regents. April 21, 2011

Michael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on July 1 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation s leading public metropolitan research universities.

University of Arizona President Emeritus Peter W. Likins served as the institution's 18th chief administrator from 1997 to 2006. During his tenure, the UA chose to focus on developing excellence in selected areas and better defining the role of UA South after the approval of the Arizona Board of Regents' "Changing Directions" initiative. April 14, 2011

University of Arizona President Emeritus Peter W. Likins served as the institution's 18th chief administrator from 1997 to 2006. During his tenure, the UA chose to focus on developing excellence in selected areas and better defining the role of UA South after the approval of the Arizona Board of Regents' "Changing Directions" initiative. April 14, 2011

Prof. Julio Cammarota and TUSD's Augustine Romero spoke on March 29, 2011: "What is the Value of Ethnic Studies and Social Justice Curricula in Arizona and in our Nation?" Julio Cammarota is an associate professor in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Mexican American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona. Cammarota also co-directs the Social Justice Education Project. Augustine Romero is director of Tucson Unified School District's Student Equity. Also, Romero co-founded the Social Justice Project, which is a collaboration between the school district and the University of Arizona's Mexican American Studies and Research Center.

Dr. Flores provided data collected at Pima Community College related to success rates of minority students. He explored the impact of success at PCC by gender and ethnicity in a presentation given on March 24, 2011.

Question and answer session following Dr. Flores presentation on March 24, 2011.

Transcript of prepared remarks by Dr. Milem

Question and answer sessions following Dr. Gonzalez de Bustamante, Prof. Dunn, and Ms. Salazar's presentation.

Celeste González de Bustamante is a University of Arizona assistant professor at the School of Journalism where she has been teaching courses that include news writing, television reporting and production since 2003. Previously, González de Bustamante has served as an anchor, reporter and producer for news agencies that include KUAT-TV, KOLD-TV and network affiliates in California and other parts of Arizona. Her areas of expertise include the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the history of media in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil. With nearly 20 years of experience, González de Bustamante has focused on the development of television news and her research interests are media power and negotiations between media production and viewers' interpretations of news, among other related topics. Timothy Dunn is an associate professor of sociology at Salisbury University's Fulton School of Liberal Arts in Maryland where he has been employed since 1999. Dunn earned his doctorate in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. During that time, he investigated immigration enforcement in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, cities that connect along the U.S.-Mexico border. His investigation also considered issues related to bureaucracy, human rights and civic action for social change. His book on related subjects, "Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement," was published in 2009. Other books and articles Dunn has written and co-produced have centered on the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican migration, human rights and citizenship rights and local responses to immigration issues, conducting work in the U.S., Mexico and Central America. Karina Salazar is a University of Arizona senior majoring in journalism with a minor in Spanish. A Tucson native, Salazar has focused her studies on various aspects of southern Arizona's immigrant and border culture. In 2010, Salazar served as editor-in-chief of El Coraje Newspaper, a revival of Tucson's 1960's Chicano Movement Newspaper. During that time, she also participated in the University of Arizona School of Journalism's Beyond the Border Project. Salazar also served as a reporter in New York City. There, she reported on the economical impact small immigrant businesses have on the city. The segment was aired on National Public Radio's Latino USA channel.

Sheila O'Rourke was appointed assistant provost for academic affairs at University of California at Berkeley in 2008. Her responsibilities include policies, practices and programs enhancing faculty recruitment and advancement with an emphasis on equity and diversity. O'Rourke also is the director of the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a faculty pipeline program designed to enhance the diversity of the academic community at the University of California. She previously worked at the University of California Office of the President as assistant vice provost for equity and diversity, where she served since 1999. Prior to joining the Office of the President, she was an assistant vice provost at University of California, Berkeley. She also previously served as a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights and as a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. She has a J.D. from Boalt Law School and an A.B. from Stanford University.

Question and answer session following Dr. O'Rourke's presentation.

Michael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on July 1 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation s leading public metropolitan research universities. Since he took office ASU, a number of milestones have occurred, including the establishment of major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute, the Global Institute for Sustainability and MacroTechnology. Also under Crow's direction ASU has initiated a dramatic research infrastructure expansion to create more than one million square feet of new research space and has announced naming gifts endowing the W. P. Carey School of Business the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Prior to joining ASU, Crow served as executive vice provost of Columbia University where he also was professor of science and technology policy in the School of International and Public Affairs.

Question and answer session following President Crow's presentation.

Question and answer following Dr. Russell's presentation.

Stephen T. Russell is the University of Arizona Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair and director of the Frances McClelland Institute. Additionally, he is president-elect for the Society for Research on Adolescence. Russell's research explores multiple aspects of development in adolescence, but with a stronger focus on sexuality, schools and family relationships for vulnerable youth. Much of Russell's research is guided by an interest in creating social change to support healthy adolescent development, which has been used to help shape local and state policies and laws for school safety in California and elsewhere. As the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families director. Russell provides leadership for convening scholars to consider important questions that arise in the lives of today's children, youth, and families.

Robert A. Williams is the University of Arizona's E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies & Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. He also teaches federal Indian law courses via the relaunched and renamed UANativeNet, a respected and widely used resource on issues affecting tribal nations, their members and indigenous peoples abroad. Williams, an enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, is a professor in the James E. Rogers College of Law. He has represented tribal groups before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples. He also has served as co-counsel for Floyd Hicks in the United States Supreme Court case, Nevada v. Hicks during the 2001 term.

Question and answer session following professor Williams presentation.

Jeffrey F. Milem is a Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. Jeff also has a courtesy appointment as a Professor of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona, Jeff was an Associate Professor at University of Maryland and an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Milem's research focuses on racial dynamics in higher education, the educational outcomes of diversity, the impact of college on students, and the condition and status of the professorate. He is a widely recognized expert in the area of racial dynamics in higher education.

Question and answer session following Dr. Jeffrey Milem's presentation