UBLaw Faculty Conversation: Susan Sturm on Workplace Equity in Higher Education
Today's program is a conversation between UB Law Professor Susan Vivian Mangold and Professor Susan P. Sturm, the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School. Professor Sturm's principal areas of teaching and research include employment discrimination, workplace regulation, race and gender, public law remedies, and civil procedure. Her current work focuses on rethinking employment discrimination regulation, addressing complex forms of bias, conflict resolution and systemic change, and examining sites for successful multiracial problem solving. She is a founding member of Columbia University’s Presidential Advisory Committee on Diversity Initiatives. Her recent publications include Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach, 101 Columbia L. Rev. 458 (2001). She also has developed a website with Lani Guinier, www.racetalks.org, on building multiracial learning communities.
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Susan Sturm’s presentation is based on her 2006 article, The Architecture of Inclusion: Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher Education, in the 2006 volume of Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. She develops a paradigm for advancing workplace equality when the problems causing racial and gender under-participation are structural, and the legal environment surrounding diversity initiatives is uncertain. Sturm shows how organization catalysts and institutional intermediaries can help to advance workplace equity through institutional transformation.
The theme music is Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit, and is available through the Podsafe Music Network.
