National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education

May 27-31, 2008
Orlando, Florida

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.

Early Bird Registration Deadline: March 31, 2008

For more information, visit www.ncore.ou.edu/2008/

Retention 2008: An International Conference on Student Retention

May 28-30, 2008
San Diego, California

At EPI we are dedicated to the mission of providing educational opportunities to underserved students, especially minorities and those from low-income families. Retention 2008 will bring together the top researchers, policy makers, and professionals involved in student retention today. Attendees will have the chance to interact with peers struggling with similar retention issues and gain insight on best practices and programs that work.

I encourage you to explore our conference website and see everything that Retention 2008 has to offer, from our two pre-conference workshops to over 60 presentations from some of the leading experts in the field. If you have any questions, please contact Niea Gardner at info@educationalpolicy.org or 757-430-2200.

Registration Deadline: April 30, 2008

For More Information: www.educationalpolicy.org

Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum

June 4-7, 2008
University of Colorado
Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Knapsack Institute supports faculty across the nation as they create or revise courses to integrate race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and other forms of social inequality. The Knapsack Institute is a program of The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the home of the White Privilege Conference.

The Knapsack Institute provides educators with a framework for teaching about the matrix of privilege and oppression. The Institute welcomes all faculty! Alumni include faculty, teachers and educators at many levels, from a wide range of disciplines.

The Knapsack Institute:

*Serves as a forum for sharing ideas and strategies
*Emphasizes pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity
*Provides professional growth and development
*Provides mentoring and leadership development
*Provides hands-on activities for the classroom
*Provides strategies for dealing with resistance to these topics in the classroom
*Provides suggestions for creating institutional change on your campus
*Provides resources and networking opportunities to support on-going change

For more information about The Knapsack Institute please visit: www.uccs.edu/~lases/knapsack.htm

2008 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

June 5-7, 2008
Georgetown University | Washington, D.C.

For more than 20 years, this conference has offered students the perfect opportunity to hone their leadership skills and become empowered to implement change on campus and in their communities. During this fast-paced, energizing conference students will

*Hear exciting keynote speakers and meet inspiring Women of Distinction Award recipients.Former awardees have included playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler; Olympic medalist Dominique Dawes; and activist and author Rebecca Walker
*Participate in workshops focusing on advocacy, leadership, health and wellness, and "real world" issues like financial literacy and post-college life.
* Enjoy endless opportunities to network
* Take part in optional community service projects and preconference activities, including an informative morning training session entitled "Young Women at the Voting Booth: Election 2008" and a tour of Washington, D.C.

Conference Fee

*Early-bird fee through April 18, $375 (commuter rate $255)
*Regular fee, April 19-May 28, $400 (commuter rate $280)
* Conference fee includes registration, awards ceremony, housing for two nights, and scheduled meals

For more information www.nccwsl.org for a downloadable flyer.

RELIGIOUS LITERACY WORKSHOP

June 15-20, 2008
West Cornwall, CT

With support from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Society for Values in Higher Education (SVHE), invites applications from colleges and universities to develop model programs for addressing religious illiteracy, especially as elaborated in  “SVHE Wingspread Declaration on Religion And Public Life: Engaging Higher Education”(see www.svhe.org). Ten campuses, normally with teams of three faculty and one student each, will be selected to develop, implement, and evaluate curricular or co-curricular programs through participation in a June 15-20 SVHE Institute/Workshop (Trinity Conference Center, West Cornwall, CT) focused on religious issues in public life.

Rolling applications—deadline March 31.

For further information: Robert Spivey – bspivey@foundation.fsu.edu or 850/644-0767. 

Summer Forum: "Feminist Theologies: Heritage and Future"

June 15-20, 2008
Washington, DC

The Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) and Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. (FSR) are pleased to invite graduate students and junior faculty to our first Summer Forum on Feminist Theologies in Washington, DC, June 15-20, 2008. This inaugural year of what we envision as an annual gathering will focus on "Making the Connections: Claiming Our Past Envisioning Our Future Together." You are cordially invited to apply.

This residential program provides the space and opportunity to work with colleagues across generations, religions, racial/ethnic, and disciplinary lines creating new knowledge and deepening feminist scholarly collaboration. We are pleased that distinguished scholars in the field, including Katie Geneva Cannon, Mary E. Hunt, Judith Plaskow, Kwok Pui-lan, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, and Deborah Whitehead have agreed to provide leadership for the entire week of lively discussions and creative debate in a communal atmosphere.

This Summer Forum provides a chance to network with colleagues, to learn from and with leading scholars in the field, and to explore together religious and theological questions, methodological approaches, and theoretical frameworks. The many different theoretical voices of womanist, iberationist, Latina, postcolonial, Asian, transcultural, critical rhetorical, critical gender, and black feminist studies in religion and theology will be explored in order to articulate feminist theologies for the future.

Application deadline is April 1, 2008

For more information: water@hers.com, 301.589-2509

THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS HEC

June 17-20, 2008
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community. The Conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalised society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of our present world order, but there are ways of taking this further without necessary engendering its alternatives: racism, conflict, discrimination and inequity. Diversity as a mode of social existence can be projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience. The Conference will seek to explore the full range of what diversity means and explore modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in community. The Conference supports a move away from simple affirmations that 'diversity is good' to a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of diversity on differently situated communities in the context of our current epoch of glo balisation.

For more information: www.Diversity-Conference.com

2008 Greater Expectations Institute: Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement

June 18-22, 2008
Snowbird, Utah

The Institute is a five-day, intensive program designed for campuses working on ways to increase student engagement, inclusion, and high achievement. The Institute will help you align institutional purposes, structures, and practices as well as advance and assess a set of essential liberal education outcomes outlined in AAC&U’s signature reports, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College and College Learning for the New Global Century, such as critical inquiry, intercultural competence, and integrative learning. Our setting—nestled in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah—will provide an ideal retreat for this important work.

The Greater Expectations Institute curriculum grows out of AAC&U’s long-standing work in diversity and educational quality, most recently brought together under a major initiative, Making Excellence Inclusive. Our framework rests on two beliefs: that a high-quality, practical liberal education should be the standard of excellence for all students, and that diversity and intercultural competence are essential elements of a contemporary liberal education.

For more information: aacu.org/meetings/gexinstitute

2008 ACE Bridging the Gap Symposium: Cultivating Collaboration Between Internationalization and Multicutlural Education

June 25–26, 2008
Washington, DC

Few institutions have fully brought internationalization and multicultural education together in synergistic ways. Consequently, the educational approaches to teaching about difference do not reflect the pluralism of American society, or adequately prepare students for this global era. For institutions to fulfill their service mission in a globalized society, they will need to advance the analytical frameworks, pedagogical enhancements, diversification strategies, and innovative solutions to societal issues that the work in this intersection affords.

ACE is building on its history of work on internationalization, access, success, equity, and diversity to host a symposium to advance the national discussion on cultivating collaboration between internationalization and multicultural education. The goals of this symposium are to:

• Provide opportunities for institutional leaders to discuss the issues
• Showcase examples of good practice in fostering collaboration between these areas
• Provide institutional teams with opportunities to formulate action plans to advance campus conversation and good practice.

The submission deadline is Friday, February 29th 2008.

For more information, contact Jarred Butto at (202) 939-9453 or via e-mail at jarred_butto@ace.nche.edu.

HERS (Higher Education Resource Services) Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women Administrators in Higher Education

June 21 - July 16, 2008
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)

Applications are due March 1st for the 2008 HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women Administrators in Higher Education. Places are available for seventy-five women faculty and administrators who currently hold significant leadership responsibilities and are ready to make a greater institutional impact.Fees: $7400 includes tuition, room & board, and instructional materials (+ $75 non-refundable application fee)

Application Deadline: March 1, 2008

For more information: Stacey Farnum at: sfarnum@du.edu or (303) 871-6204 or www.hersnet.org/HERSHigherEducationResourceServices.htmsisihtm.asp

OCA National Convention

July 31 - August 4, 2008
Washington, DC

Founded in 1973, OCA is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans (APA) in the United States. Originally founded as the Organization of Chinese Americans, OCA was the first APA organization to establish a national headquarters in Washington D.C. OCA has over 80 chapters and college affiliates nationwide. OCA employs 7 staff at the national headquarters.

More i nformation available at www.ocanational.org/

Third Annual Hispana Leadership Summit

September 11-13, 2008
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico

Hispanic Enterprise magazine and KFC are proud to announce the return of their third annual Hispana Leadership Summit. Hispanic Enterprise magazine's destination leadership conference for Latina professionals and entrepreneurs offers a true "makeover" experience, designed to sharpen skills, expand your network and reinvigorate your personal journey.

Today's most successful Latinas can take their professional and personal development to a completely new level through inspiring keynotes, interactive seminars and peer-to-peer coaching sessions.
This summit is the promise of a relaxing, yet empowering weekend for women!

For more information: www.hispanicenterprisemagazine.net

Women Administrators In Higher Education 2008 Conference

September19, 2008
Washington, DC

WAHE’s inaugural full-day conference, Connecting Women Leaders in Higher Education, will feature several speakers, concurrent sessions, a networking lunch, and a closing reception. The conference will address issues of importance to women in higher education such as Making the Education and Advancement of Women Matter; Developing Mentoring Relationships; Dealing with Difficult Employees, Peers, and Supervisors; Making Career Transitions; and The Art of Leadership, among many others. WAHE’s signature program elements, Networking and Career Connections, also will be featured throughout the conference.

Please mark your calendars now and plan to attend this inaugural WAHE conference on September 19. More information and registration materials will be forthcoming on WAHE’s new website that will be unveiled later this spring.

We’re very excited about this new initiative for WAHE and hope it will be a resounding success. Please forward this Save the Date notice to other friends and colleagues who you think might be interested.

4th International Conference on Research in Access and Developmental Education

September 24-27, 2008
Condado Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico

This conference held once only every five years brings researchers and practioners together to discuss how developmental students can best be served. The conference where all presentations are research- based is designed to provide educators from the U.S., Europe, and around the world a forum for both practitioners and researchers. This forum will not only teach practitioners the most modern, research- based techniques for serving underprepared students, it will also enable practitioners to provide researchers with guidance on emerging issues for future research. In addition, the conference features plenary and concurrent sessions presented by leading researchers and scholars in the field.

Deadline: April 30, 2008

Contact: Evelyn Asher, ashere@appstate.edu, National Center for Developmental Education, Appalachian State University, P.O. Box 32098, Boone NC 28608, 828-262-2876, www.ncde.appstate.edu

2008 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and Innovations

September 25-26, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

The 2008 Refugee and Immigrant Conference offers groups and individuals assisting refugee and immigrant children and their families an opportunity to network and learn about issues affecting refugee and immigrant children and their families, schools, health, and health care, along with the challenges of cultural adjustment. This conference is valuable if you are a ... state refugee coordinator, RCSIG coordinator, bilingual education coordinator, resettlement worker, social worker, school teacher, school administrator, counselor, university faculty, university student, healthcare professional or a refugee and immigrant services staff member.

The conference will include sessions on:

* Integration of Services
* Creating Partnerships
* Multiple-risk Families
* PreK-12 Educational Issues
* Family Life Education: strengthening refugee and immigrant
families and facilitating productive cultural adjustment.
* Health Issues
* Refugee Influxes
* Jobs: development, placement and training
* Issues of citizenship and immigration

Information and the Call for Conference Workshop Proposals can be found at http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/refugee.html. If you have any questions, please contact Lynn Osheff.

CONAHEC's 12th North American Higher Education Conference, Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context

October 8-10, 2008
Monterrey, Mexico

Stakeholders interested in higher education collaboration in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada are invited to submit presentation proposals for the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration's (CONAHEC) Twelfth North American Higher Education Conference. CONAHEC's conference "Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context" will take place from October 8-10, 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico and will be hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León within the framework of their 75th Anniversary.

Call for proposals DEADLINE: Monday, March 31, 2008

To submit a proposal, please visit: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/14671/Monterrey2008CallForProposals.htm

Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress

AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 16-18, 2008
Long Beach, California

Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress will highlight curricular, co-curricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments—environments in which all students develop, in increasingly sophisticated ways, critical knowledge, skills, and capacities for work and citizenship.

For more information: www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning

Beyond Celebrating Diversity: ReACTivating the Equity and Social Justice Roots of Multicultural Education

November 12-16, 2008
New Orleans, Lousiana

The theme of the 2008 NAME Conference, “Beyond Celebrating Diversity: ReACTivating the Equity and Social Justice Roots of Multicultural Education,” is particularly relevant for the setting of this year’s conference in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina hit the city and the Gulf Coast regions of Mississippi and Texas, the gaps between poor people, especially those of color, and the advantaged in this country were exposed to the world. Even developing countries offered assistance to a group of people who were being neglected by a system that had been touted as the most democratic and caring in the world. As the displaced population was being dispersed across the United States, it became overwhelmingly clear the country continued to neglect large segments of the population.

Multicultural education, by that name, has been around since the late 1960s. However, it means many different things to people. Some advocates take a very critical approach to flesh out the oppression, inequities, and injustices that are hidden or ignored by much of the population. Some educators have established democratic classrooms in which students explore these issues. Some educators confront the inequities that exist in their schools and communities and integrate multicultural concepts throughout their teaching. Still others believe that they have addressed multicultural education by having international festivals and celebrating ethnic holidays and heroes. The focus of this conference is to remind us of our roots and reACTivate ourselves to establish equity and social justice in our schools and society.

Call for proposals due March 31, 2008. Registration due July 15, 2008.

For more information: www.nameorg.org/conferences.html

Facing Race: A National Conference

November 13-15, 2008
Oakland, California

The Facing Race conference is a racial justice hub bringing together activists, organizers, journalists, artists, scholars, key policy advocates and researchers interested in exploring innovative strategies and successful models for changing public policy. More information available soon.

Cultural Respect in Preservation and Conservation

November 20, 2008
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Preservation and conservation of collections in libraries, archives, museums, and historic sites are guided by professional ethics, standards, guidelines, and best practices.  This year's North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) annual conference will address the issues of cultural respect.  Objects of material culture often hold intangible values for the community of origin.  Do collection institution leaders honor these values with policies of respect and community collaboration?  Some artifacts may not be intended for use or view by the public.  Do collection institution caretakers place restrictions on access and exhibition?  Some communities may wish to use artifacts in traditional ceremonies and rituals.  Do collection institution stewards approve such requests?  Some communities believe their cultural objects should deteriorate naturally.  Do preservation and conservation professionals permit this to happen?  We often profess to champion diversity in our collections.  Do we respect multicultural perspectives on the preservation and conservation of heritage collections?  Is there a moral imperative to preserve and conserve books, manuscripts, documents, photographs, film, sound recordings, art, and artifacts?  Please join us for presentations and discussions on these and other issues of cultural respect and heritage preservation.

Information: Robert James, Executive Director North Carolina Preservation Consortium, robertjamesncpc@gmail.com

10th Annual White Privilege Conference

April 1-4, 2009
Memphis, TN

The annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression. WPC provides a forum for critical discussions about diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion and other systems of privilege/oppression. WPC is recognized as a challenging, empowering and educational experience. The workshops, keynotes and institutes not only inform participants, but engage and challenge them, while providing practical tips and strategies for combating inequality.

Information: http://www.uccs.edu/~wpc