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Monday, March 18
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Victor Santiago Pineda
Marriott, Crystal Ballroom (G-H)
Victor Santiago
Pineda
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Victor Santiago Pineda, Ph.D. is the chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow for academic diversity at the
University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Pineda has served as an adjunct professor at the Department of City
and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, a lecturer in the comparative disability policy program at American
University’s School for International Service, and a research fellow at the World Institute on Disability.
Dr. Pineda has emerged as one of the global leaders of the international disability rights movement. He
has studied and documented the socio-cultural factors that kept people with disabilities marginalized and
stigmatized all over the world. In 2003, Dr. Pineda formed the Pineda Foundation for Youth/World ENABLED
as part of his dedication and commitment to the advancement of the human rights of young people with
disabilities.
Tuesday, March 19
10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Arthur Levine & Diane Dean
Marriott, Crystal Ballroom (G-H)
Arthur Levine
Diane Dean
The speakers will highlight key results from Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College
Student, a fi ve-year national study of today’s college students. Co-authors Arthur Levine and Diane Dean
will discuss the academic and social lives of undergraduates, including the rise of digital culture, our
changing economy, undergraduate race relations, and parental involvement. The authors will explore the
unique characteristics of this generation and the implications these hold for student affairs professionals.
Arthur Levine, Ph.D. is the sixth president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Before his appointment at
Woodrow Wilson, he was president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
He also previously served as chair of the higher education program, chair of the Institute for Educational
Management, and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Levine is the author of dozens of articles and reviews, including a series of reports for the Education
Schools Project on the preparation of school leaders, teachers, and education researchers. Dr. Levine’s
numerous commentaries appear in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The
Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Education Week, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Diane Dean, Ph.D. is an associate professor for higher education administration & policy at Illinois State
University. Her research applies organizational theory, social psychology, and policy analysis to address
critical issues in college and university planning, policy, and governance. Her work has been supported
by government agencies, nonprofi t foundations, and education institutions/organizations, and has been
published in numerous chapters, articles, and research papers. Dr. Dean is co-editor of Public Policy and
Higher Education (2nd ed), a comprehensive work examining current policy issues in higher education,
how postsecondary education policy is made, the relationship between the campus and the Capitol, and
how the two can work together for the benefi t of all. She is also co-editor of the Women in Academe
series, which includes multiple volumes on women college students, women in academic leadership, and
gendered issues in faculty roles and work-lives.
As co-author and director of the research studies underlying the book, Dr. Dean is currently examining
sociological changes in today’s generation of undergraduate college students, the forces shaping their
experiences, and their implications for postsecondary education policy, institutional planning, classroom
practices, and the co-curriculum.
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