Professor Cantu brings exceptional practical and policy-making experience to her new joint appointment in the Education and Law Schools at UT. For eight years, she served as the Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights in the Clinton Administration, where she oversaw a staff of approximately 850 in implementing governmental policy for civil rights in American education. Within the first two years, her office increased the number of illegal discrimination complaints resolved by 20%; more than a third of the cases were disposed of without adversarial proceedings based on voluntary corrective action. By her final year in office, the number of cases resolved each year had risen almost another 20%.
Teaches topics in civil rights and the intersection of law and policy in education; served as assistant secretary of education for Civil Rights during the Clinton administration.
Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, (2021)
Member, President-Elect Joe Biden's Transition Team(2020 - 2021)
James Wiser, Ed.D., expected 2023 (Supervisor)
Year | Semester | Course |
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2021 | Spring | ELP 394L: School Law |
2021 | Spring | ELP 394K: Americans With Disabilities |
2020 | Fall | ELP 384L: Legal Iss In Schools |
2020 | Spring | ELP 394L: School Law |
2020 | Spring | ELP 394K: Americans With Disabilities |
2019 | Fall | ELP 394L: School Law |
2019 | Spring | ELP 394K: Americans With Disabilities |
2019 | Spring | ELP 384L: Legal Iss In Schools |
2018 | Fall | ELP 394L: School Law |
2018 | Spring | EDA 391Q: Contemp Iss In Higher Edu Mgt |
2018 | Spring | EDA 383: 16-Americans With Disabilities |
2017 | Fall | EDA 388L: School Law |
2017 | Spring | EDA 391Q: Contemp Iss In Higher Edu Mgt |
2017 | Spring | EDA 383: 16-Americans With Disabilities |
2016 | Fall | EDA 388L: School Law |
2016 | Spring | EDA 380S: Prosem II: Research In Hghr Ed |
2015 | Fall | EDA 388L: School Law |
2015 | Summer | EDA s388V: Ethics/Vals In Ed Adm-Core Crs |
2015 | Spring | EDA 395: 7-Higher Educ Futures & Issues |
2014 | Fall | EDA 391K: Fundraising In Higher Educ 101 |
2014 | Fall | EDA 388L: School Law |
2014 | Summer | EDA s388V: Ethics/Vals In Ed Adm-Core Crs |
2014 | Spring | EDA 383: 16-Americans With Disabilities |
2014 | Spring | EDA 391T: Higher Education Law-Med |