UCD Directives

UC DAVIS: Office of the Chancellor 

October 13, 1999

DEANS, DIRECTORS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRPERSONS
AND CAMPUS/UCDHS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS

RE: Clinton Nominee Lani Guinier Speaks at UC Davis on "Rethinking
Power: The Work That Race and Gender Do"

 November 2, 1999
 Noon-1:00 p.m.
 Wright Hall (Main Theatre)
 UC Davis

Lani Guinier was President Clinton's nominee in 1993 for Chief of the Civil
Rights Division in the Department of Justice.  Her writing on the rights of
minorities in America generated controversy in Washington, and Clinton
subsequently withdrew her nomination.

A brilliant civil rights litigator and a passionate, articulate, and humorous 
speaker, Professor Guinier now applies her voice and scholarship to challenge 
"us-versus-them" thinking.  "We have to go one step beyond access
to really think transformatively," she writes.  "What can an institution do
to welcome women or people of color...not just to welcome them into the
institution as it has been functioning, but to rethink its own mission in
light of its more diverse population?"

I invite you to hear Professor Guinier answer this question and many others
when she speaks at UC Davis on Election Day.  Her presentation is free and
is sponsored by the Women's Resources and Research Center, the Office of the
Provost, and the Campus Council on Diversity and Community.

Sincerely,

Robert D. Grey
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

Robin Whitmore
Women's Resources and Research Center

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