Conference Program Outline
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
8:30-12:00 Registration
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9:00-9:15 Pavilion 1
College Day Welcom
Henry Vance Davis, Dean, SSHS
Venus Hewing, Conference Co-Chair
Tanya Washington, Admission
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9:45-11:00 Panel, Alumni Lounges 136
Moderator: Ronald Dorris, Xavier University
Kambon Camara, Bloomfield University
On Heritage, Culture, History and Education
Marcella L. McCoy, Philadelphia University
Educating the Next Generation
Shameeka Ackers, Dillard University
V. E. M. 2k+, Values, Ethics, and Morals: the Building Blocks of Character and Cultural Enrichment
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11:15-2:00 Panel and Lunch, Pavilion 2 & 3 (Invitation Only)
Across the Divide: Community Collaborations, Initiatives and Strategies
Moderator:
- Henry Vance Davis, Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Nathaniel Briggs, President Bergen County NAACP
- Eddie Raynord Hadden, President, Bergen County Urban League
- Eugene G. Marshall Sr. Past President Bergen County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Reverend Vernon C. Walton, Pastor Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Trustee, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Honorees:
- Kwesi Aggrey. Provost Designate, Lock Haven University
- Jerome Body, Former Mahwah Police Officer
- Letizia Gambrell-Boone, Director, T. A. G. S., Hampton University
- Richard Collins, Pastor African Methodist Episcopal
- Joseph Dallon, Professor of Biology, Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Virginia Gonsalves-Domond, Associate Professor of Psychology, Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Eugene Marshall, Director of Athletics, Ramapo College of New Jersey
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2:15-3:30 Panel, Pavilion 1
You’re Hired—Now What? Survival Strategies for New Faculty, A Roundtable Discussion of Recently Hired Faculty
Moderator: Phil McLewin, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Panelists:
- Elarick Persaud, State University of New York
- Regina Clark, Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Lysandra Perez-Strumolo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
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3:45-5:00 Panel, Pavilion 1
Moderator: Benjamin Wilson, Western Michigan University
Ronald Dorris, Xavier University
The African American Professoriate as Educational Institution: Seven Themes, One Legacy
Elarick Persaud, State University of New York at New Paltz
Six Years of Solitude Without Altitude: The Politics of Tenureship
Henry Vance Davis, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Delivering Diversity: DAC, Inclusion, and Relanguaging the Search for Inclusion
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7:00-9:00PM SAP Reception |
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| Friday, April 22, 2005 |
9:30-10:45, Pavilion 1
Moderator: TBA
Karl Johnson, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Alternative Ways of Educating Urban and at risk Students in the New Generation?
Peter Heinze, Ramapo College of New Jersey
How a White Teacher Teaches White Students about White Privilege and Racism
Letizia Gambrell-Boone, Hampton University
Textbooks for a Global Society: The Africa - African-American Link |
10:30-11:45, Pavilion 1
Workshop:
How can it be fair when it is not always fair?
Facilitators:
- Venus Hewing, Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Peter Heinze, Ramapo College of New Jersey
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1:00- Woodbury Commons Shopping Excursion |
6:00-8:00 African and Latino Heritage Achievement Banquet(Pavilion)
This event will feature special acknowledgment of student leaders, faculty and staff who have made positive contributions to our African and Latino community. All are welcome and seating is limited. This event is sponsored and supported by the Office of Student Activities, the State of the Africana Professoriate Committee, the Educational Opportunity Fund Program, the Black Student Union and the Organization for Latino Unity.
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| Saturday, April 23, 2005 |
9:45-11:15 Board Meeting (Pavilion) |
12:00- Denzel Washington in Shakespeare on Broadway (Visitors Circle) |
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