Closed Session
1:00Welcome
Freeman Hrabowski, Committee Chair
1:15Committee Discussion of Balance and Conflict of Interest
Richard Bissell, Executive Director, Policy and Global Affairs, The National Academies
Open Session
1:45Strategies for Minority Success in STEM
Richard A. Tapia, University Professor, Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering, Director of the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, and Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Rice University
Isiah Warner, Vice Chancellor, Office of Strategic Initiatives, and Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
2:45Break
3:00Strategies for Minority Success in STEM (continued)
Mary Ann Rankin, Dean of Natural Sciences and UTeach, University of Texas at Austin
John Slaughter, President and CEO, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
4:00Power of Diversity
Scott E. Page, Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, University of Michigan and author of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Closed Session
5:00Reception
Keck Center, Room 1024
6:00Committee Dinner
Keck Center, Room 1024

From: Appendix D, Agendas for Public Meetings

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Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation.
National Academy of Sciences (US), National Academy of Engineering (US), and Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2011.
Copyright © 2011, National Academy of Sciences.

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