(NAME-MCE) NCORE May 26-30, 2009 San Diego CA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE)

22nd Annual Conference

May 26-30, 2009  San Diego CA

Call for Presentations deadline:  December 15, 2008

http://www.ncore.ou.edu/

SWCHRS
3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290
Norman, OK 73072
Tel: 405.325.3694

In 1988, The Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies launched the
first Annual National Conference for Race & Ethnicity in American
Higher Education (NCORE) to address the resurgence of racist incidents
in higher education. Since its inception, NCORE has evolved into a
vital national resource for higher education institutions, providing
an annual multicultural forum that attracts Black/African Americans,
American Indians, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Latino/as, and European
Americans representing campuses across the United States.

The NCORE conference series constitutes the leading and most
comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in
American higher education. The conference focuses on the complex task
of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed
to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand
opportunities for educational access and success by culturally
diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations.

NCORE is designed to provide a significant forum for discussion,
critical dialogue, and exchange of information as institutions search
for effective strategies to enhance access, social development,
education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in
culturally diverse settings.

Building upon a solid programming tradition, NCORE 2007 provided a
range of policy, planning, and pedagogical perspectives from around
the country and will highlight exemplary working models and approaches
which are adaptable to other institutional or regional settings.

- Assisting higher education institutions to create inclusive higher
education environments, programs, and curriculum; improve campus
racial and ethnic relations; and expand opportunities for educational
access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally
underrepresented populations
- Providing policy, planning, programmatic, curricular/pedagogic,
research/assessment, training, and theoretical perspectives from
around the country
- Highlighting exemplary working models and approaches capable of
being adapted in other institutional settings
- Attracting more than 2,400 persons, representing virtually every
state and several countries
- Consistently receiving high evaluations--98 percent rated the
overall value and benefit of the 2005 conference as "Excellent," "Very
Good," or "Good," with 88 percent rating it as "Excellent" or "Very
Good"

Conference Participants Include:

- Senior administrative officers at both campus and system levels
- Academic affairs administrators, deans, department chairs, and
teaching faculty
- Directors and staff of offices of affirmative action, equal
employment opportunity, and minority affairs
- Professionals in virtually all campus activity/service areas,
including admissions, student life, financial aid, personnel, public
safety, alumni affairs, and athletics
- Representatives of state and national institutes, associations,
agencies, commissions, and foundations
- Leaders of student organizations
- Representatives of community-based agencies and organizations