FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Carolyn Zahnow
Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
Ph: 919.828.1400
czahnow@popecenter.org
Ken Starr to Speak on October 3, 2013 in Cary, North Carolina
Topic: “American Higher Education: Working Hard…or Hardly Working?”
RALEIGH, August 29, 2013– Kenneth “Ken” W. Starr, former federal judge, independent counsel, and now president of Baylor University, will speak on October 3rd, 2013, on “American Higher Education: Working Hard…or Hardly Working?” at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Cary. The Pope Center is sponsoring his talk.
Starr, who has been president of Baylor since 2010, was previously dean of Pepperdine University Law School. Before that, he served as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and as independent counsel for five federal investigations between 1994 and 1999. He has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Starr, originally from Texas, earned his J.D. degree from Duke University Law School in 1973. He received his B.A. from George Washington University and his M.A. from Brown University.
Peter D. Hans, chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, will also speak, discussing Starr’s insights in the light of the University of North Carolina experience. Hans is a senior policy advisor for the Raleigh law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. George Leef, the Pope Center’s director of research, will moderate.
Location: Embassy Suites, 201 Harrison Oaks Blvd., Cary, NC 27513
The John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation. It is located in Raleigh. For more information on the Center, visit www.popecenter.org <http://www.popecenter.org> .
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