(Name-mce) ListServ Recruiting, Retaining, Advancing Faculty of Color April 12-14 Minneapolis MN

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Keeping Our Faculties: Recruiting, Retaining, and Advancing Faculty of Color

April 12-14, 2007
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Information: http://www.cce.umn.edu/conferences/kof/

Registration is underway for the 4th biennial national symposium on
promoting faculty diversity on U.S. campuses. The symposium will
include successful strategies, models for leadership to promote
change, and strategies to empower faculty of color and transform
institutional culture. April 12-14, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. For a list of presenters or to register, see http://
www.cce.umn.edu/KOF .

Deadline: April 1, 2007

Contact: Kathy Yaeger, yaeger at umn.edu, System Academic Administration,
University of MInnesota, 120 Morrill Hall, 100 Church St. SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, 612 624 5841,
http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/26717/27845/52415/0/>http://www.cce.umn.edu/KOF

Keeping Our Faculties of Color Symposium
April 12-14, 2007
Radisson University Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Description

This exciting and interactive symposium, the fourth Keeping Our
Faculties meeting, will provide presentations that will energize and
empower people as well as help to break down barriers to full
inclusion; offer opportunities to share narratives and experiences
from individuals and discrete groups from which to discover
commonalities; share best practices for ensuring diversity from the
academy, and from public and private sector organizations; engage
attendees in the development of action plans and strategies for their
campuses; and present scholarly research to frame issues of faculty
diversity and provide approaches and solutions.

Sessions will focus on strategies that have been successfully employed
to date; approaches for developing a pipeline to retain students of
color and recruit and advance persons of color in academia; models for
leadership to promote change; and strategies to empower faculty of
color, transform institutional cultures, and produce change within and
outside the academy.

Symposium Highlights include presentations by the following individuals:

-- John Brooks Slaughter, President and CEO, National Action Council
for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)
-- Sally Dickson, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development,
Stanford University
-- Gertrude J. Fraser, Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement,
University of Virginia
-- A. James Hicks, Program Director, Louis Stokes Alliances for
Minority Participation Program, Directorate for Education and Human
Resources, National Science Foundation
-- Eric Jolly, President, Science Museum of Minnesota
-- Spero Manson, Professor and Head, National Center for American
Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, Department of
Psychiatry, Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado
-- Sheila O'Rourke, Acting Assistant Vice President, Academic
Advancement, Office of the President, University of California
-- Michael Peel, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate
Services, General Mills
-- Charlena Seymour, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Who Should Attend

Persons interested in the Symposium themes include faculty,
researchers, practitioners, administrators, human resource
professionals, staff, graduate and professional students, and policy
makers from all parts of post-secondary education—community colleges,
public and private four-year institutions, and universities. Persons
from professional organizations, trustees, and alumni will find topics
of interest that should be critical to their success with issues of
diversity. Sessions will be available both for people who are new to
the topic, as well as those who have worked with faculty diversity
issues for a substantial time.