Elizabeth Seale-Scott, director of the Center for Faith-Based Community Initiatives in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will be among the speakers at a symposium from 6-9 p.m. Thursday (March 21) in the Hesburgh Center for International 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.p. Titled 鈥淏ush鈥檚 War on Poverty,鈥� the symposium is sponsored by Notre Dame Law 91视频鈥檚 Journal of Law, Ethics&Public Policy and Thomas J. White Center on Law&Government. It is free and open to the public.p. The Center for Faith-Based Community Initiatives was established by President Bush soon after he took office in January 2001. Appointed in March of last year, Seale-Scott is responsible for coordinating HHS efforts to remove barriers to the participation of faith-based and community groups in accessing federal funds to assist Americans in need.p. Joining Seale-Scott as principal speakers at the symposium will be:p. ? Michael S. Barr, assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law 91视频, who studies issues related to community development, financial institutions, international law, refugee law, and health policy.p. ? Kenneth K. Wong, a professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, who studies urban school reform, state finance and educational policies.p. Notre Dame鈥檚 Journal of Law, Ethics&Public Policy is published in association with the two symposia it sponsors each year. The journal is a publication of the White Center, which was founded in 1976 to expose selected Notre Dame Law 91视频 students to public policy analysis through research projects and a weekly seminar course.
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