Only at UNC: conference to promote inclusion was “by invitation only”

Shannon Blosser has the story:

In a conference dubbed as ?Politics of Inclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroads,? one thing was obvious ? the event was highly scripted. Attendance at the conference was by invitation only and mostly included people who agreed with the premise of the conference, that the U.S. needs to improve access to college so as to include a wider cross-section of America?s youth. …

Others who spoke at the conference included former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt, who favored a policy of allowing children of illegal immigrants to benefit from the low in-state tuition rate, Martin Krislov, general counsel for the University of Michigan, who argued that affirmative action programs need to be maintained to provide ?access to women and socio-economically disadvantaged students,? and Gene Nichol, formerly Dean of the UNC Law School and now president of William and Mary who lamented that most student financial aid goes to the wealthy rather than the poor.