Appendix A
Workshop Agenda and Participants
AGENDA
Friday, April 30, 2004
Public Session
9:00 a.m. |
Introductions/Review of Agenda and Charge: Arleen Leibowitz |
9:15 |
Background from the SBA: Eric Benderson, Associate General Counsel for Litigation, SBA |
10:00 |
SBA current methodology: Andy White |
10:30 |
Panel questions and discussion: Arleen Leibowitz |
11:00 |
Government set-asides in other areas: R. Preston McAfee, Professor of Business Economics and Management, California Institute of Technology |
11:30 |
What case law says about discrimination/underrepresentation: Robert Goldstein, Professor of Law, ULCA Law School |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:30 |
The small business contracting process: Linda Oliver, Deputy Director, Peg Meehan, Assistant Director, and Sharon Drago, Assistant Director (via phone), Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization |
2:30 |
Review of statistics issues in discrimination: John Rolph, Chair, Committee on National Statistics |
3:00 |
Panel questions and discussion of potential analytic methodology: Arleen Leibowitz |
5:30 |
Adjournment |
PARTICIPANTS
Eric Benderson, U.S. Small Business Administration
William T. Bielby, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sharon Drago, Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Robert Goldstein, University of California, Los Angeles
Arleen Leibowitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan S. Leonard, University of California, Berkeley
R. Preston McAfee, California Institute of Technology
Peg Meehan, Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Linda Oliver, Office of the Secretary for Defense, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
John E. Rolph, University of Southern California
Patricia A. Roos, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Michael Siri, National Research Council
J.H. (Rip) Verkerke, University of Virginia
Andrew White, National Research Council