Home  About  Chapters  Policy  Publications  Join  Jobs  Donate  Blog  The University of Michigan's first dream.DETROIT installment, Art and Urban Development in Detroit. dream.DETROIT is a year-long community development project. News from the National Office Post-Election Center TI Launched Roosevelt LiveBlogs the Presidential Debate On Campus Midwest Regional Fall Policy Workshop Blum speaks at Vermont Campus Compact conference Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." — Franklin Roosevelt    A Seat at the Table: Conference Program > Roosevelt Home > Higher Ed Conference > A Seat at the Table: Conference Program Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): A Seat at the Table: Socioeconomic Diversity and Access to Selective Colleges and Universities   October 6-7, 2006   Hosted by Yale University, Office of the President and Office of Undergraduate Admissions   Sponsored by The Roosevelt Institution     Friday, October 6 Opening Plenary: Equity and Excellence in Higher Education 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Levinson Auditorium, Sterling Law Buildings Welcome     Zach Marks, Yale ’09; Co-Director, A Seat at the Table Keynote Address and Response William Bowen, President Emeritus, Mellon Foundation             Richard Levin, President, Yale University Discussion moderated by        Virginia Bailey, University of Michigan ’07; Roosevelt Institution        Eduardo Garcia, Amherst ’07; Telementoring Program        Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Yale                                 University Reception 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm, Saybrook College Fellows Lounge Dinner 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm, Saybrook College Dining Hall   Student Address 7:15 pm - 7:30 pm, Saybrook College Dining Hall         Steven Syverud, Yale ’06; Former President, Yale College Council; Program                 Associate, Questbridge Student Workshop: Channeling Student Activism into University Policy 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Dwight Hall Round Table Discussion moderated by Yale Undergraduate Organizing Committee Student Cocktail Reception 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Dwight Hall   Saturday, October 7 Continental Breakfast 8:30 am – 9:00 am, Center for British Art Lobby Morning Plenary Session: Financial Aid and Its Discontents 9:00 am – 10:15 am, Center for British Art Lecture Hall             Chaka Fattah, U.S. Congressman, 2nd District of Pennsylvania Myra Baas Smith, Director of Financial Aid Services, College Board   Breakout Discussions: Financial Aid and Its Discontents 10:30 am – 11:45 am, Linsly-Chittenden Hall Federal Financial Aid Policy, Room 101 Sara Flanagan, Vice-President of Government Relations, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Suzanne Day, Director of Federal Relations, Harvard University Van McPherson, University of Connecticut '08; State Board Chairman, Connecticut Public Interest Research Groups Financial Aid at Selective Public Institutions, Room 211 Scott Giles, Vice-President of Policy, Research and Planning for the Vermont Assistance Corporation Yvonne Hubbard, Director of the Office of Student Financial Services, University of Virginia Trevor Montgomery, University of Illinois-Chicago '07; Student Body President; Founder, Student Lobbying Association Financial Aid at Selective Private Institutions, LC 317 Ted Bracken, Director of Federal Relations, Consortium on Financing Higher Education Lloyd Thacker, President, The Education Conservancy Claire Rann, Amherst College ’08; Pilot Member, Telementoring Program   Roosevelt Institution Brunch Workshops 11:45 am – 1:00 pm, Yale Residential College Dining Halls For Students: What is Roosevelt? An Introduction to RI Jonathan Edwards College Starting a Chapter: The Basics Branford College Building Your Chapter: Resources to Help You Grow Saybrook College For Professionals: Pitching In: How You Can Work with the Roosevelt Institution Berkeley College Afternoon Plenary Session: Non-Financial Barriers to Access 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm, Center for British Art Lecture Hall Anthony M. Marx, President, Amherst College Jerome Karabel, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley Project on Equal Opportunity   Breakout Discussions: Non-Financial Barriers to Access 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall Outreach, Information and Advising, Room 101 William Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Harvard University J. B. Schramm, Founder and President, College Summit, Inc. Tiffany Meertins, University of Virginia Curry School of Education ’07; College Guide Evaluation and Selection, Room 211 Jerome Karabel, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Yale University Matthew Schwieger, Stanford ’08, Roosevelt Institution Campus Support and Advising, Room 317 Tom Parker, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Amherst College John LaVoy, Director of PENNCAP, the Pennsylvania College Achievement Program Dr. Lynn Zimmerman, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Professor of Biological Sciences, UMBC (University of Maryland) Tabia Collins-Mitchell, Yale ’07; Science, Technology, and Research Scholar (STARS) Program Participant   Closing Plenary: Future Prospects for Access to Selective Colleges and Universities 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Center for British Art Lecture Hall Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, author of The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action and editor of America’s Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education Paul Schneider, Yale ’08; Co-Director, A Seat at the Table   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. 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