ANNOUNCING AAAA WEBINAR SERIES "RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF A DIVERSE FACULTY:A MATTER OF EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY"

Join AAAA on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 for the first of a series of webinars on equal opportunity, affirmative action and diversity topics.

"Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Faculty" will be taught by Jonathan Alger, Vice President and General Counsel, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and former Assistant General Counsel, University of Michigan. Most colleges and universities declare that they are dedicated to diversity as a matter of both quality and equality. Indeed, as reflected in the recent University of Michigan admissions lawsuits at the Law School and undergraduate levels, diversity within the student body is often portrayed as a vital component of a university's educational mission. One of the key questions arising out of these cases is whether, and to what extent, factors such as race, national origin, gender, etc. can be taken into account in the employment context at educational institutions.

The Webinar will address:
* The compelling interest in promoting diversity in recruitment
* Lessons from the Michigan cases
* Criteria for diversity plans
* Recruiting and outreach
* The search process
* Hiring and financial incentives
* Growing your own faculty* And other important issues.

Our Expert Speaker: Jonathan Alger is Vice President and General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he oversees legal affairs for all of the University's campuses in New Brunswick/Piscataway, Newark, and Camden. He also teaches an undergraduate honors seminar on higher education law. Before coming to Rutgers, he was Assistant General Counsel at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, Mr. Alger helped coordinate two landmark admissions lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as legal work in areas such as intellectual property, cyberspace law and media rights.

Mr. Alger previously served as counsel for the national office of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Washington, D.C., and as an attorney-advisor in the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. He began his professional career in the Labor and Employment Section at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius.Mr. Alger has given hundreds of presentations on higher education law and policy throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, and the West Indies.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and is a current member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Vermont's annual conference on Legal Issues in Higher Education.

Mr. Alger graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School, and with High Honors in political science and Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College and its External Examinations Program.

Join us on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 2:00 - 3:00 PM EST

Program Materials: PowerPoint presentation and Faculty Diversity Outline prepared by Mr. Alger will be distributed after the webinar.

Cost: $99.00 (AAAA Members) or $149.00 (Non-Members) allows access to one phone line for an unlimited number of people to listen. The conference fee includes program materials and live audio/web conference hosted by Genesys Conferencing.

Sign up today at www.regonline.com/webinar1.

It's easy! Once you receive the link for the webinar, you'll click that link and when prompted, enter your name, select the "DIAL ME" option, and enter your direct phone number and hit continue. Your phone will then ring and you'll be connected via telephone and web. Then, all you have to do is sit back and listen to the presentation! No special equipment is needed.

It's interactive! There will be a Question and Answer period at the end where you can anonymously ask questions by pushing a button on your telephone keypad.

It's convenient! You can call and listen in from anywhere ... your desk, your conference room, your home or your cell phone. And you don't have to spend money or extra staff time out of the office to go anywhere.

It's a bargain! It costs just $99/$149 to participate.

Submit your questions: We invite you to submit your questions in advance to s.j.wilcher@att.net. We plan to answer your questions during the live audio conference. However, time constraints limit the number of questions that can be answered in the Q&A session.