In April 2010, Education Sector hosted an important discussion about the role minority-serving institutions play in improving student success in college, and what the higher education community can learn from from these institutions.
This discussion featured:
Introductory comments from John Wilson, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Frank Matthews, Publisher of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (as moderator)
Charles Smith, Vice President for Student Affairs at South Carolina State University
Deborah Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research at Excelencia in Education
Valerie Wilson, Associate Provost and Director of Institutional Diversity at Brown University
Lacey Leegwater, Director of Programs and Planning at the Institute for Higher Education Policy
John Wilson, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Additional remarks by Education Sector’s Robin Smiles and Kevin Carey.
We thank the Lumina Foundation for its support of this event.
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