Lowry to speak at national conference of higher education attorneys
Janel Shoun |
Lowry, Lipscomb president since November 2005, is the founder of Lipscomb’s Institute of Conflict Management, the only program of its kind in the Mid-South, and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University.
"We are delighted to have Dr. Randy Lowry as the featured speaker for the opening plenary session of our 47th annual conference," said Kathleen Curry Santora, CEO of NACUA. "Dr. Lowry spoke at our annual conference in 2002 and received outstanding reviews from the conference attendees. Negotiation and dispute resolution are key skills for every member of our association, and Dr. Lowry is one of the nation's leading experts and most sought-after speakers on those subjects.”
Past keynote speakers at the conference include Donald Kennedy, President of Stanford University; Professor Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford University Law School; Charles Vest, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Mark Yudof, Chancellor of the University of Texas System.
Other speakers and moderators at the four-day conference include representatives from Princeton University, University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Yale University and Washington University among many others. Lipscomb’s own general counsel Phil Ellenburg will be leading a special interest group discussion for church-related and religious institutions at the conference.
Lowry received his juris doctorate from Hamline University in St. Paul, M.N., and joined the law school faculty at Pepperdine in 1986. He holds a bachelor’s in political science and a master’s degree in public administration from Pepperdine University.
Lowry is an annual visiting professor at Vermont Law School and the City University of Hong Kong, and has taught in China, Australia and Italy. His consulting and training practice has included work in the Netherlands, India and Argentina.
According to NACUA officials, attorneys in higher education are regularly called upon to employ negotiating skills in both their professional and personal lives. Whether negotiating litigation settlements, employment agreements, the terms of institutional policies or even a teenager’s curfew or allowance, attorneys can use certain principles of negotiation that are timeless, tested and true.
Lowry will present a fast-paced and interactive presentation using real-life scenarios, to demonstrate how you can truly negotiate anything once you understand the principles and dynamics of the negotiation process.
NACUA’s membership includes more than 3,400 attorneys representing 1,500 campuses at about 700 institutions. The association's purpose is to enhance legal assistance to colleges and universities by educating attorneys and administrators to the nature of campus legal issues.