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Past Convenings: 2003 As part of our effort to support an infrastructure of collaboration between researchers, lawyers and advocates, we believe in the importance for CRP to conduct conferences and trainings. Many of our conferences are envisioned to foster debate and have drawn experts from several distinct areas, commissioned for further research by CRP. Our convenings for 2003 included:
October 23 to 24, 2003. Sacramento, CA The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the University of California are jointly sponsored a policy development conference. This conference explored the current status of, challenges to, and strategies for increasing opportunity in higher education in California and the nation. The conference drew together both researchers and policymakers to the state capitol to forge a new research and legislative agenda to expand opportunity in higher education. Community Colleges and Latino Educational Opportunity October 11, 2003. Cambridge, MA The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Pew Hispanic Center jointly sponsored a research roundtable entitled, “Community Colleges and Latino Educational Opportunity.” The goal of this event was to create an active policy discussion between researchers and institutional leaders to produce a new research agenda for Latinos and other underrepresented minority students in community colleges. Color Lines Conference August 29 to September 1, 2003. Cambridge, Massachusetts As many as 1,000 researchers, civic and business leaders, journalists, activists, and policymakers engaged each other in the course of more than forty panels and numerous presentations exploring how major institutions — from corporations to schools to media conglomerates to religious institutions to federal, state and local governments, and more — are responding and should respond to our nation’s racial challenges and changes. We will have rigorous debates over research findings, key value judgments, and policy prescriptions. The conference will also provide opportunity for informal exchanges. The goal is to hold a civil rights convening unprecedented in its intellectual breadth and richness. In view of the high quality, broad disciplinary scope, and huge topical range of the approximately 120 research papers commissioned, we hope to make a historically significant contribution to the realm of research as well as the arena of national discourse on the future of racial integration and the integration ideal. Transportation Equity: The Racial Justice Agenda in Transportation Policy June 9, 2003. Washington, D.C. Transportation equity and environmental justice for people of color are concerns that have been at the periphery of the debate pertaining to the reauthorization of TEA-21 (Transportation Equity Act). Our goal was to come together to better understand the opportunities that the reauthorization affords for strengthening provisions to address inequities that minorities and low-income communities experience and for providing much needed funding for research in this area.
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