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from the issue of November 11, 2004
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Conference to discuss life 50 years after Brown ruling
An annual interdisciplinary conference examining issues relating to people of color in predominantly white academic institutions will be Nov. 15-16 at the Holiday Inn, 141 N. Ninth St.
The conference will feature nationally known keynote speakers, invited plenary sessions, more than 40 concurrent sessions, workshops and panel discussions. Topics will address creating diversity structures, access to higher education for Latino students, creating a more positive campus climate, supporting identity development of biracial college students and more. This year’s conference theme is “50 Years Since Brown — Are We There Yet?”
Featured speakers are:
• Joseph L. White, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry, University of California, Irvine; “Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Trying to Go?”
• Jeanett Castellanos, lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine; “Transforming PWIs to Have Racial and Cultural Integrative Climates: A Call for Collective Exploration and Consciousness in Higher Education.”
• Anna Williams Shavers, associate professor, College of Law, UNL; “Have We Moved from the Tokens of the Desegregation Movement to Tokens in Predominantly White Institutions?”
• Teresita E. Aguilar, dean, graduate studies, University of New Mexico; “What Would ‘There’ Look Like?”
Registration will be from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Nov. 15 and 8-8:30 a.m. Nov. 16. Costs are $249 for full registration, $129 one-day registration, $99 student registration, and $50 UNL one-day registration. To register, call 472-2423 or visit this site.
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