Changing the National Conversation: Inclusion and Equity

September 20-21, 2018

Penn President Amy Gutmann delivered the keynote address at Changing the National Conversation: Inclusion and Equity. The conference, held on Penn’s campus at the Perry World House and the Levy Conference Center at Penn Law, was organized and co-sponsored by the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore College. This invitational event brought together more than 100 presidents, provosts, and senior administrators from across the country to think strategically about the important work of increasing faculty diversity and excellence and fostering inclusive excellence for the entire campus community.

Keynote addresses were delivered by President Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania; President Ruth J. Simmons, Prairie View A&M University; and Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Population Health and Health Equity University Professor, University of Pennsylvania. Other distinguished speakers and moderators were: President Jonathan R. Alger, James Madison University; Chancellor Nancy Cantor, Rutgers University-Newark; President John J. De Gioia, Georgetown University; Executive Vice President and Provost JoAnne A. Epps, Temple University; Chancellor Phoebe A. Haddon, Rutgers University–Camden; Reverend Dennis Holtschneider, CM, Chancellor, DePaul University and Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Ascension; President Raynard Kington, Grinnell College; President Marvin Krislov, Pace University; Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet, former President of Antioch University Seattle and former President of Diné College; Dr. Maurie McInnis, Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Texas at Austin; President Richard Myers, Kansas State University; Dr. Debra J. Pérez, Senior Vice President, Organizational Culture, Inclusion and Equity, Simmons University and Planning Committee Co-Chair; Provost Wendell Pritchett, University of Pennsylvania; President Havidán Rodriguez, State University of New York at Albany; President Valerie A. Smith, Swarthmore College; Dr. Claude M. Steele, James Quillen Endowed Dean Emeritus and the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences Emeritus, Stanford University and the former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of University of California at Berkeley and former Provost of Columbia University; President Emerita Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University; Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park; President David Wilson, Morgan State University; and Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana, University of Maryland, College Park and Conference Planning Committee Chair

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Photographs by Eric Sucar