(Posted 5-28-99)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FACULTY MEMBER SERVING ON PANEL
FOR CONFERENCE ON "RACE, ETHNICITY AND THE LAW"
Dr. Linda Wightman
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GREENSBORO -- Dr. Linda F. Wightman, who is chair of the
Department of Educational Research Methodology at The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, will be a panelist at a national
conference on "Race, Ethnicity and the Law: Challenges Facing the
Legal Profession."
The conference is sponsored by the American Bar Association
and will be held June 8 at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Wightman will be on a panel with the topic "Promoting Access:
Achieving and Embracing Diversity in the Nation's Law Schools." She
was invited to be on the panel by U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.
Wightman, an associate professor who joined the UNCG faculty
in 1997, has an extensive background in research measurement. She has
completed a comprehensive, eight-year study, titled "The LSAC National
Longitudinal Bar Passage Study," which was funded by the Law School
Admission Council of Newtown, Pa. The study reported National Bar
Examination outcome data by ethnicity and gender. It also explored
factors that could explain differences in outcomes.
Wightman received national attention in 1997 for her study of
law school admissions and affirmative action. Wightman studied the
files of more than 90,000 college students who applied to law schools
during the 1990-91 academic year. She looked at the students' law
school application and admission data, academic performance in law
school and passage rates for the bar exam.
She is a former vice president of the Law School Admission
Council. She also has worked at the Educational Testing Service and
has served as managing editor of "Buros" (Mental Measurement
Yearbook). A graduate of Temple University, Wightman earned her
master's in psychology at Montclair State College and her Ed.D. in
statistics and measurement at Rutgers University.
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