Schedule: Do Higher Ed Accountability Proposals Narrow Opportunity For Minority Students and Minority-Serving Institutions?
Date Published:
August 21, 2014
See the schedule of speakers and presentations.
DATE: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 --9:00 am to 12:00 noon
LOCATION: U.S. Capitol Visitors Center, Congressional Auditorium & Atrium
BACKGROUND:
Students of color have not achieved equal opportunity for higher education and many of the institutions that serve them are struggling with economic and policy challenges. Some critics of the Obama Administration claim that recent accountability and financial aid policy changes would close the door to college for many deserving students. As these proposals are being discussed, we invite you to a lively forum presenting new and original empirical studies. These seven (7) research papers examine the issues with the goal of avoiding unintended negative consequences.
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Schedule
8:30-9:00
Check-in and light refreshments
9:00-9:05
Welcome and Introductions: Gary Orfield, Civil Rights Project
Panel One
9:05-9:15
Sara Goldrick-Rab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Distribution and Equity Implications of PLUS Loans(co-authored with: Robert Kelchen and Tressie Cottom McMillan)
9:15-9:25
Willie Kirkland, Dillard University, The Impact of Financial Aid Limits on a Leading HBCU and its students
9:25-9:35
Respondents: Brian Bridges, United Negro College Fund; Stella Flores, Vanderbilt University
9:35-9:45
Q & A
Panel Two
9:50-10:00
Stella Flores, Vanderbilt University, The Racial College Completion Gap in Texas: Who is responsible (co-authored with: Toby J Park and Dominique Baker)
10:00-10:10
Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania, The Minority Serving Institutions Mosaic: A Data Driven Student Landscape in the Outcome-Based Funding Universe (co-authored with: Thai-Huy, Andres Castro, and Daniel Corral)
10:10-10:20
Respondents: Sylvia Hurtado, UCLA; Deborah Santiago, Excelencia in Education
10:20-10:35
Q & A
10:35-10:45
Short Break
Panel Three
10:45-10:55
Sylvia Hurtado, UCLA, Metrics, Money, and Degree Attainment: Identifying Engines of Social Mobility (co-authored with Adriana Ruiz Alvarado)
10:55-11:05
Nicholas Hillman, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Differential Impacts of College Ratings: The Case of Education Deserts
11:05-11:15
Anne-Marie Núñez, University of Texas-San Antonio, How the Shortcomings of a Postsecondary Ratings System Could Lead to Shortchanging HSIs and their outcomes (co-authored with Awilda Rodríguez)
11:15-11:35
Respondents: Lorelle Espinosa, American Council on Education; Sara Goldrick-Rab, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Anne-Marie Núñez, UTSA; Jamienne Studley, Deputy Undersecretary, U.S. Dept. of Education
11:35-11:50
Q & A
11:50-12:00
Event Summary: Gary Orfield
