A deal quietly brokered among its former parent General Motors, the auto task force and a private equity group had lenders crying foul.
The task force published "Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums," which espoused the need to serve diverse communities.
In fact, the task force asked Bain Capital, the private equity company that Mr. Romney helped found, if it was interested in investing in General Motors' European operations, according to one person with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Metro Talking Circle, a group of volunteers working to advance economic equity for African-American and Native-American communities, developed recommendations for the task force.
The JRF task force group tries to bridge this divide, promoting a simple equity release product to enable older people on low to medium incomes to pay for low-level care in their own homes.
It was distributed on DVD by a company owned by the Quadrangle Group, the private equity firm founded by Steven Rattner, the former head of the federal auto industry task force.
Tom Miller, the Iowa attorney general who is heading up the task force investigating questionable document practices, said he was not aware that private equity firms had acquired some foreclosure-related operations.
Penn was in charge of training under the gender-equity law Title IX at UNC-Chapel Hill, and she set up a sexual assault policy task force that was meeting in response to the federal complaint against the university.
Initiated by Mayor Richard Berry, the Albuquerque City Council unanimously passed a strong gender pay equity initiative that is the first of its kind in the nation (full disclosure -- the mayor's task force was headed by yours truly).
Montgomery said in a statement that her task force will include four outside higher education consultants and law firms with expertise in the gender equity law Title IX. "Members of the external task force that I lead will conduct a cultural assessment, review university administrative processes and oversight and provide counsel on Title IX compliance matters," Montgomery said.
The federal government has recently been paying greater attention to college sexual assault, with a White House task force on the issue and a record number of investigations into alleged violations under the gender equity law Title IX in colleges' response to sexual assault accusations.
