The 16th Annual Higher Education Law Conference
At the University of North Texas
March 26-27, 2012
Conference Presenters:
- David Lester, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Suicide and Professor of Psychology at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Dr. Lester is a widely published author on suicide prevention, and is coauthor of the 2011 book Understanding and Preventing College Student Suicide
- Lynn Rossi Scott, Brackett & Ellis, will speak on"Responding to the US Department of Education's Guidance on Sexual Violence". Ms. Scott’s presentations have always proved among the more popular of past conferences.
- Bill Holda, President of Kilgore College, and Justin H. Lonon, Vice Chancellor, Public & Governmental Affairs at Dallas County Community College District, will review the implications for higher education of the last Texas legislative session—and offer an informed and detailed preview of what’s ahead in 2013.
- These sessions join the previously announced presentation, “Pima Community College: Lessons Learned from the Tucson Tragedy.” The speakers will be Roy Flores, Chancellor of Pima Community College, and C.J. Karamargin, Vice Chancellor for Public Information and Government Relations at PCC. Mr. Karamargin was, at the time of the shooting tragedy surrounding U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords, her Communications Director.
More speakers and a full schedule will be released in coming days.
The conference is eligible for both Continuing Education Units and Continuing Legal Education Units.
To register for the conference, and for more information, visit http://www.coe.unt.edu/
Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D. - Vice President of Education and Professional Development
