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Kenneth J. Meier, Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, will deliver the 7th Annual Lent Upson Lecture on Wednesday, March 29, 5 p.m., at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center on Wayne State University’s Detroit campus. The Lecture is free and open to the public.

Titled “The Role of Management and Representation in Improving Performance of Disadvantaged Students: An Application of Bum Phillips’ “Don Shula Rule,” the lecture will highlight findings of a multi-year research project examining the politics of Latino and African American education in 1,800 school districts throughout the United States.

Meier, formerly an editor of the American Journal of Political Science, has won numerous awards for excellence in research, teaching, and service in the fields of public policy and public administration.

Following the lecture, Representative John C. Stewart, Michigan House of Representatives (20th district), will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award during the Public Administration Honors Banquet. Stewart, currently serving his third term in the Legislature, is a member of the following committees: House Appropriations, Higher Education (Chairman) and Judiciary (Vice-Chair). He is also a graduate of Wayne State’s Master of Public Administration Program.

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Reservations are required for the banquet ($20 per person). Contact Darthy Vasquez at (313) 577-6327; email: darthy@wayne.edu).

The reception will be held at 6 p.m. followed by the Public Administration Awards Banquet at 7:15 p.m. Parking is available at Structure 5 on the west side of Anthony Wayne Drive across from the Faculty Administration Building. Cost is $3.50 cash entry.

The 7th Annual Lent Upson Lecture is cosponsored by the department of political science, the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, and the Dean’s Office, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Wayne State University is a premier institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 11 schools and colleges to more than 33,000 students.