A New Vision of Affirmative Action and Faculty-Admininistrator Cooperation: Transforming Debates and Teaching about African-Americans, Race and the Law in Predominantly White Institutions

Authors

Akiba J. Covitz, Senior Research Associate, Yale Law School and Assistant Professor and Pre-Law Advisor, University of Richmond

Date of this Version

October 2001

Abstract

This session will present a new model of affirmative action as well as a model for how our campus conversations about affirmative action and the benefits of diversity can and should be connected to teaching undergraduate courses. The presenter will share his experiences as a professor partnering with administrators to bring debate about the (evident) merits of affirmative action into the curriculum of our institutions.