The Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law & Policy
at Stetson University College of Law
ANNOUNCES
The 29th Annual National Conference on
Law & Higher Education
February 16-20, 2008
Sheraton Sand Key, Clearwater Beach, Florida

Keynote Speaker

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education, and in 2000 he received a Fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has received honorary degrees from twenty-one colleges and universities, including institutions in Chile, Ireland, Israel, and Italy. In 2004 he was named an Honorary Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai. In 2005 he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Education. He serves on a number of boards, including the Spencer Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art.

The author of over twenty books translated into twenty-six languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. During the past two decades, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and the nature of interdisciplinary efforts in education. Over a decade ago, in collaboration with psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner embarked on a study of GoodWork—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and personally meaningful. The GoodWork Project (see goodworkproject.org) includes studies of outstanding leaders in several professions—among them journalism, law, science, medicine, theater, and philanthropy—as well as examination of exemplary institutions and organizations. In 2001, Basic Books published Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet, the first book to issue from Gardner and colleagues’ current research study; this book is now available in paperback. A more recent publication from the project is Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (with Wendy Fischman, Becca Solomon, and Deborah Greenspan), also available in paperback. Other recent books by Gardner include The Disciplined Mind, Changing Minds, The Development and Education of the Mind, and Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons. In 2006, Gardner Under Fire was published. Gardner is also completing Five Minds of the Future, which is scheduled to appear this year.

Confirmed Speakers

Jonathan Alger Vice President and General Counsel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Mark Bauer Associate Professor of Law Stetson University College of Law Howard W. Bell, Jr. Bell & Trice Enterprises, Inc. Sheila Trice Bell Bell & Trice Enterprises, Inc. Deborah C. Brown Associate Vice President for Legal Affairs and Human Resources Stetson University College of Law Charles F. Carletta Secretary of the Institute & General Counsel Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute S. Daniel Carter Senior Vice President Security On Campus, Inc. Jean Demchak Managing Director and Leader Education Practice Group, Marsh, Inc. Alexander E. Dreier Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP Dr. Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy Executive Director, NASPA Ann Franke President, Wise Results LLC Dr. Don Gehring Professor Emeritus of Higher Education Past Director of the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program Bowling Green State University John Hall Partner, Eversheds LLP Mary Hill Associate Emeritus for the U.S. Department of Education Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Dr. Douglas Holt Director, Hillsborough County Health Department Jim Hundrieser Vice President for Student Development Lynn University Margaret A. Jablonski Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs University of North Carolina Kevin Jackson Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Texas A&M University Darryll Jones Professor of Law Stetson University College of Law William A. Kaplin Visiting Professor of Law Stetson University College of Law Professor of Law Catholic University of America School of Law Dr. Tim Kaye Professor of Law Stetson University College of Law Helen L. Konrad McCandlish Holton, PC Peter F. Lake Charles A. Dana Chair and Director, Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law & Policy

Jill Landesberg-Boyle President, Florida Keys Community College Regina G. Lawson Chief of Police Wake Forest University Beverly E. Ledbetter Vice President & General Counsel Brown University Rachel B. Levinson Waldman Staff Counsel American Association of University Professors Steven J. McDonald General Counsel Rhode Island School of Design Miriam J. McKendall Holland & Knight Holiday Hart McKiernan Senior Vice-President and General Counsel Lumina Foundation for Education Lisa Miller Director of DAY Programs Colorado State University Health Services (8031) Michael A. Olivas William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and Director Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance Mark B. Rhoades Immigration Practice Group McCandlish Holton PC John Schwartz Senior Risk Management Consultant United Educators Morton Silverman, M.D Senior Advisor and former Director Suicide Prevention Resource Center Robert B. Smith Partner, Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley, P.C. Dr. Nancy Tribbensee General Counsel for the Arizona University System Arizona Board of Regents T. Scott Varady Associate General Counsel University of Arkansas Jesus Villahermosa, Jr. Instructor, Crisis Reality Training and Director of Campus Safety Pacific Lutheran University David L. Westol Owner & CEO Limberlost Consulting Thomas Workman Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Department of Arts & Humanities University of Houston-Downtown Susan Zabriskie Executive Director Alpha Phi International Fraternity Kenneth A. Zick II Vice President of Student Life and Instructional Resources Wake Forest University Ada Meloy General Counsel American Council on Education Ken C. Winters, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry Director, Center for Adolescent Substance University of Minnesota Leslie Simon Co-Author, Everybody Hurts Trevor Kelley Co-Author, Everybody Hurts

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