Supreme Court Justice and professor to speak at LSSU

NEWS RELEASE

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

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SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Lake Superior State University invites the community to hear two speakers on campus on Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Arts Center auditorium.

At 1 p.m. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak about college affordability and the future of public higher education.

At 7 p.m., Bridget Mary McCormack, justice with the Michigan Supreme Court, will discuss the importance of getting youth involved in civics.

Both presentations, sponsored in part by the LSSU Issues and Intellect Fund, are free and open to the public.

Goldrick-Rab is a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and founding director at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab.

Her commitment to scholar-activism is shown through her broad profile of research and writing that dissect the intended and unintended consequences of the college-for-all movement in the United States.

She provides extensive service to local, state, and national communities, working directly with governors and state legislators to craft policies to make college more affordable, collaborating with non-profit organizations seeking to examine the effects of their practices, and providing technical assistance to Congressional staff, think tanks, and membership organizations throughout Washington, D.C.

Justice McCormack was a law professor and dean at University of Michigan law school before she joined the Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013. She continues to lecture at the law school.

A graduate of the New York University Law School, where she was a Root-Tilden scholar and won the Anne Petluck Poses Prize in Clinical Advocacy, she spent the first five years of her legal career in New York, first with the Legal Aid Society and then at the Office of the Appellate Defender, representing more than 1,000 clients in New York's trial and appellate courts.

In 1996, she became a faculty fellow at the Yale Law School before starting at University of Michigan 1998.

For more information on the September 17 programs, contact Jay Gage, 906-440-0524.

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