Conference
Schedule of Activities

ELEVENTH GENERAL CONFERENCE OF
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS
WHAT OUR UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS OWE EACH OTHER

The Roosevelt Hotel
New York City
21 to 23 May 2004

NAS Contact: Gary C. Brasor (609) 683-1437

Friday
21 May		  
8:00–9:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30–9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30–9:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: Stephen H. Balch, President, National Association of Scholars (Grand Ballroom)
9:45–12:00 a.m. Panel 1: Closing the Racial Gap in Education In memory of James S. Coleman, Sidney Hook Award Recipient, 1990 (Grand Ballroom)
Chair: Adam Scrupski, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education
Panelists: David J. Armor, Director, Ph.D. Program, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
  Carol M. Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
  Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
  Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History, Harvard University
  Amy Wax, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
12:15–1:45 p.m. Lunch Break: Workshop on Federal Grants -- (Lexington Suite)
Michael Poliakoff National Endowment for the Humanities
2:00–3:00 p.m. Keynote address by Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University (Grand Ballroom)
3:15–5:30 p.m. Panel 2: Bad Education: What Can Be Done? (Grand Ballroom)
Chair: Sandra Stotsky, Research Scholar, Northeastern University
Panelists: Chester E. Finn, Jr., President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
  E.D. Hirsch, Founder and Chairman, Core Knowledge Foundation
  Michael Podgursky, Middlebush Professor of Economics, University of Missouri
  Arthur E. Wise, President, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
5:45–7:15 p.m. Reception and Buffet in honor of Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

 

Saturday
22 May		  
7:30–9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
8:30–9:30 a.m. NAS Membership Meeting (Grand Ballroom)
9:45–12:00 noon Panel 3: Doing Justice to the Past (Grand Ballroom)
Chair: Robert David Johnson, Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Panelists: Harvey E. Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emory University
  Alan Charles Kors, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
  Thomas C. Reeves, Senior Fellow, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
  Sandra Stotsky, Research Scholar, Northeastern University
12:15–2:15 p.m. Banquet Luncheon and Awards Presentations (Terrace Room)
Peter Shaw Memorial Award to Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom
Barry R. Gross Memorial Award to Miro Todorovich
Sidney Hook Memorial Award to Stanley Rothman
2:45–3:30 p.m. "We the People" Grant Workshop (Grand Ballroom)
Richard Fonte Director, NEH's "We the People" Program
3:30–4:15 p.m. TBA
4:30–6:00 p.m. Meetings of NAS Disciplinary Sections and Special Topics Sections:
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): "Free Speech on Campus" (Sutton Suite)
  Alan Charles Kors, University of Pennsylvania
   
NAS K-12 and History "Ensuring Learning in the School: Grammar, Papers, and Historical Understanding" (Broadway Suite)
  Sheldon Avery, Harford Community College
Will Fitzhugh, Concord Review
David Mulroy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Adam Scrupski, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education
   
CUNYAS: "Miseducation for the 21st Century" (East End Suite)
  KC Johnson, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Margaret L. King, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
   
NAS Law Section: "Gratz and Grutter Revisited" (Riverside Suite)
  Gail Heriot, University of San Diego School of Law
  Terry Pell, Center for Individual Rights (CIR)
5:30–7:00 p.m. Reception: Women's Freedom Network (WFN) (Plaza Suite)
Reception: American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) (Promenade Suite)
Reception: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) (Sutton Suite)


Sunday
23 May		  
7:45–9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
9:00–11:15 a.m. Panel 4: Should Education Civilize? (Grand Ballroom)
Chair:

Carol Iannone, Editor-at-Large, Academic Questions
Panelists: Mark Bauerlein, Professor of English, Emory University
  Carson Holloway, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  Robert Pattison, Division Director, Humanities Division, Southampton College of Long Island University
  Douglas A. Sears, Dean, School of Education, Boston University

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