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NEWSfrom
Central Connecticut State University
Honored as a "Leadership Institution" by the Association of
American Colleges & Universities
Media contact:
Bart Fisher,
Associate
Director of
Marketing and Communications
(860) 832-1624;
Fisherb@ccsu.edu
Symposium on Race, Opportunities in Education Draws
Distinguished Panel of Speakers to CCSU Campus, November 9
beginning at 10 a.m.; public invited
NEW BRITAIN -- November 2, 2007) – An all-day symposium,
titled “Challenges and Opportunities in Education: The
Issue of Race,” will be held at Central Connecticut State
University, November 9. The Annual Conference of the Center
for Africana Studies features more than a dozen
distinguished speakers as well as a student roundtable
discussion.
The Conference, which will take place in Davidson Hall’s
Torp Theater from 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. is sponsored by the CCSU
Office of Diversity and Equity, the School of Engineering,
the Center for International Education, the Africana Student
Organization, the Center for Caribbean and Latin American
Studies and the Office of the Provost and Vice President,
Academic Affairs.
Dr. Michael Thelwell, professor of Literature and Writing
and the Founding Chair of the W.E.B. DeBois Department of
Afro American Students at the University of Massachusetts,
Paula Johnson, professor of law at Syracuse University, and
Doris Kurtz, New Britain Superintendent of Schools are
scheduled to speak. Also on the panel are Okey Ndibe, the
Allan K. Smith, visiting professor of Health and Human
rights at Trinity College as well as Pauline Davis,
community activist, youth coordinator and executive board
member of the New Britain NAACP.
Chengiah
Ragaven, adjunct professor of International Studies at CCSU
and education consultant Rory Edwards will be participating
as will Brian Riley, second vice president of the NAACP and
member of the New Britain Board of Education along with:
Noel Cazenave, associate professor of Sociology, University
of Connecticut, Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies
at Brown University, Lauren Baldwin-Ragaven, the Henry R.
Luce Professor of Health and Human Rights, Trinity College,
Tiffany Rose Patterson, associate professor of African
American studies, Vanderbilt University, V. Bede Agocha
assistant professor of Psychology and African American
Studies, UConn, Carol Carter-Lowery, professor of Education
Leadership, CCSU, William Hunter, empowerment author and
speaker, Cynthia Hodge, associate dean, UConn School of
Dentistry and Rory Edwards, education consultant.
Dr. C. Charles Mate-Kole, director of the Center for
Africana Studies notes the conference will address “the
issues confronting many minority and other underrepresented
groups in particular, American and Latino students, staff
and faculty on university campuses across the nation.” At
the same time, Professor Mate-Kole pointed out “this
conference is not just for people of color,” as he
encouraged “anyone who is eager to work in enhancing
diversity and a collegial and congenial learning
environment” to attend.
Directions to CCSU are at the University’s website:
http://www.ccsu.edu/visit.htm
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