September 03, 2006
Power to the Pipeline
I attended this wonderful symposium a few years ago. I highly recommend it. And if you attend, drop me a line and we can get coffee! From the conference website:
Keeping Our Faculties of Color Symposium; April 12-14, 2007; Radisson University Hotel, Minneapolis, MinnesotaThis 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...
Call for abstracts here (pdf).