Hispanic Heritage Month: Faculty and Staff Resources

Latinx & Higher Education: Affirmative Action & the Commitment of Hispanic Serving Institutions

Prerecorded Webinar

This free webinar will examine the current state of federal law governing affirmative action/diversity admission programs at institutions of higher learning across this country with particular emphasis placed on the recent federal court challenge to Harvard University’s use of race in its admissions program.

Discussion Topics:

• Efforts to eliminate affirmative action programs

• California’s current effort to repeal a 1996 state ballot initiative that amended the state constitution to ban the consideration of race and sex in higher education

• The role and commitment that Hispanic Serving Institutions have to advance the principles and objectives of affirmative action/diversity programs

Speakers:

• David Hinojosa, Director of Educational Opportunities Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

• Loretta Martinez, Chief Legal Counsel, University of New Mexico

• Gabriel Sandoval, Partner, Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo (moderator)

• Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund

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• Prerecorded Webinar

• Presentation Slides