WHEN: Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 17-18
WHERE: Holiday Inn Downtown, 141 N. Ninth St.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 10, 2003 -- An annual conference examining issues relating to people of color in predominantly white academic institutions will be held Nov. 17-18 in Lincoln at the Holiday Inn Downtown, 141 N. Ninth St.
The conference will feature nationally known keynote speakers, invited plenary sessions, panel discussions, workshops, and more than 40 concurrent sessions on topics including the search for community on campus, recruitment and retention, and multicultural learning styles. This year's conference theme is "Affirmative Approaches to Ensuring Diversity."
Featured speakers are:
* Gilberto Cardenas, assistant provost and director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Cardenas has worked in the areas of immigration for more than 20 years and is a nationally recognized scholar in the field of Mexican immigration.
* Linda R. Crump, assistant to the chancellor for equity, access and diversity programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The office provides advice and support to the campus on issues including equal employment opportunities.
* Dorothy Hayden-Watkins, assistant administrator for equal opportunity programs at NASA. In her role she provides oversight for agency policy and programs in discrimination and complaints processing.
* Carl Holmes, longtime legal advocate for people of color and researcher for the NAACP during the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
* Janet C. Lu, head of library public service and professor of library information technology at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Lu has used her personal experiences and education to inform her role as an expert in the area of Chinese culture.
* Bryant K. Smith, director of multicultural affairs and international student services for Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. Smith is responsible for coordinating activities toward ethnic minority and international students.
Registration will be from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 17 and 8 to 8:30 on Nov. 18. Costs are $249 for full registration, $129 one-day registration, $99 student registration, and $50 student one-day registration. To register, contact Faye Massa, at (402) 472-2423.
A full conference agenda and other information is online at conferences.unl.edu/people03.
The conference is sponsored by UNL, the Nebraska State Department of Education, Nebraska Wesleyan University, South Dakota State University and Wayne State College.
CONTACT: Wayne Babchuk, Academic Conferences, (402) 472-0394
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Posted by Tom Simons, Office of University Communications
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