Access & Diversity Collaborative
Enrollment Management and the Law
2009–10 seminars on legal and policy issues
At a recent seminar: Brad Quin, College Board, Art Coleman, EducationCounsel, university counsel Jamie Lewis Keith, enrollment VP John Barnhill, and admissions dean Robert Witzburg
The Access & Diversity Collaborative will deliver a series of national seminars designed to equip higher education leaders with strategies and resources for effectively advancing their campus access and diversity goals. Led by national policy experts, the seminars will map the principal national policy streams and forecasts that directly affect institutional access and diversity goals, and will feature newly developed tools and resources designed to facilitate policy evaluation and team training on campus. Registration is required.
A 21st-Century Imperative - policy brief on major developments and trends
No greater imperative faces higher education leaders today than that of providing access to higher education for all students and maximizing the educational benefits of diversity to enhance higher learning outcomes for all students. In A 21st-Century Imperative: Promoting Access and Diversity in Higher Education, Richard W. Riley and his team at EducationCounsel summarize major policy, legal, and educational trends that college and university leaders should be aware of as they shape their institutional policies. (Released in October 2009, this paper is the product of an ACE-College Board Presidential Roundtable held in September 2008 entitled, "The Educational Imperative of Diversity: Key Issues for Higher Education Leaders.")
About the Access & Diversity Collaborative
The Collaborative was created by the College Board—in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the University of Michigan cases—to assist colleges and universities in developing and implementing their diversity-related policies. The Collaborative provides extensive training to higher education institutions, nationwide. In only 4 years, we have conducted 26 national seminars (attended by more than 1,500 representatives from nearly 400 institutions and organizations); and published and widely distributed numerous guides that address key strategic planning and policy development issues.
EducationCounsel LLC, led by former U.S. Department of Education officials, provides core legal and policy services in support of our efforts in national seminars and through written guidance for higher education institutions.
Download a one-page overview of the Access & Diversity Collaborative.
A 21st-Century Imperative: Promoting Access and Diversity in Higher Education (.pdf/1.7M)