Ninth Annual Conference POCPWI (2004)

50 Years Since Brown--Are We There Yet? (2004)

Wayne A. Babchuk — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:05:25 PST

What Factors Contribute to the Success of African American Women in Science and Mathematics: Do Teaching Techniques Matter?

Sheryl McGlamery — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:04:09 PST

The session content will focus on the author's research about effective teaching techniques that engage and assist African American women (and others) in succeeding in science and mathematics courses. Several case studies will highlight the effective practice focus of this session.

New Diversity Publishing Outlet: Adult Educators Overcome Exclusionary Policies

Keith B. Armstrong — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:59:51 PST

Research strongly supports the notion that publishing houses lack sufficient diversity in both high and middle-level staff members to allow for a diverse philosophical outlook and appreciation to fairly support underrepresented groups wishing to publish their research findings in multiculturalism, gender/sexual orientations studies, race and class. Resultantly, these biases confront both adult educators and other authors writing in the areas of social justice and diversity. This presentation will investigate the historical factors of exclusion in the publishing industry, and more specifically within university presses, to explain an initiative (praxis) launched to open access by way of creating a progressively new adult education publishing concern at the University of Wyoming: the College of Education Monograph Series' American Adult Educators.

Obstacles to Embracing Diversity: Some Psychological Aspects

Jenina S. Lepard — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:59:27 PST

This presentation will examine the issue of racial prejudice both within and beyond the schools from a psychological perspective. It will explore insights and illustrations from the field of psychology and related disciplines, and will use these to evaluate the current relevance of the psychological analysis contained in Brown v. Board of Education. Suggestions will be made for how we can monitor and improve our interactions with people of different ethnic origins, so that we may be more confident in our ability to ensure more successful building of diversity in educational settings during the twenty-first century and beyond.

Time Capsule Discourse

E. Hughes Shanks — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:58:50 PST

The purpose of this presentation is to encourage participants to develop a deeper sensitivity toward different perceptions of historical events. Attendees will participate in a forum that invites free expression of cultural values, and encourages participants to keep an open mind when encountering values and perspectives different from their own.

African Americans in PWls: A Post-Caste Conundrum

Richard Sigwalt — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:02:05 PST

This paper proceeds from a historical study in progress of caste in the United States. That study will argue that the distinctive feature of slavery in the United States was that --unlike in Brazil or the Caribbean -servitude in the Anglophone mainland developed a caste ideal, ideologized as "race ". As with dalits in India, people identified as "black" in what became the United States an excluded hereditary caste destined ascriptively to the meanest labor, and excluded systematically and ideologically from the dominant ("white”) group. Slavery ended in the 1830s in most of the North, but because caste and slavery are independent variables, the United States in its first half century was able to develop an integrated economy, a national culture, and a federal system based on "white" democracy -i.e., implicit acceptance of the caste ideal nationwide by the dominant white group.

Access to Higher Education for Latino Students

Andres Traslavina — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:52:48 PST

With the dramatic increase in the Latino population in the United States, it is increasingly important for student affairs personnel to move beyond traditional recruitment and retention approaches when working with these students. This program highlights effective recruitment strategies with Latino students and their families.

Q12 / I lOTM- Answers to The Controversial Gallup Question: Do You Have A Best Friend at Work?

Renita Tyrance — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:47:34 PST

This interactive session will combine with audience participation and investigate various sentiments toward the controversial Gallup University.. Q12 / I lOTM IMPACT 1 survey question. “QIOR :Do you have a best friend at work?” and highlight the implications associated with "best friendlessness” for minority faculty and staff on predominantly white campuses.

Faculty of Color: On the Track but Out of the Loop

Fred A. Bonner II et al. — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:54:59 PST

As a follow up to two recent publications in Black Issues in Higher Education and The Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle Review, this presentation will focus on the experiences of African American tenure-track faculty in predominantly White Institutions. Several themes are delineated and discussed as they relate to the professional and social integration experiences of this group.

The University of Massachusetts School of Education: A Successful Experiment in Combating Institutional Racism

Dwight W. Allen — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:44:42 PST

In 1968 the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts created a school with its prime focus on combating institutional racism. UMass graduates of color have served as presidents and deans, professors, teachers, international consultants, diplomats and ambassadors, more than validating this grand experiment.

Team-Teaching Africana Studies: Developing a Model for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, and an Inclusive Curriculum

Bryan Carter et al. — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:40:26 PST

Africana Studies Faculty from Central Missouri State University will discuss how they developed an innovative team-taught course for Introduction to Africana Studies. The faculty have worked on the course for the past three years and it was recently added to the curriculum as a general education requirement.

Keepint Your Hands on the Plow--The Challenges of One African-Amreican Law School Admissions Professional

Janice L. Austin — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:50:22 PST

Presentation Description: By highlighting the trends and revealing the mystique of a rarefied process, the presenter outlines the difficulties and achievements encountered during twenty years of enrolling law schools students, especially students of color.

An Ongoing Relationship with Theory Inside the Structures of Tenure Track

Kwakiutl Dreher et al. — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:41:33 PST

This panel asks how can junior faculty of color at a predominantly white research I institution stay versed and acquire new insights about theoretical principles? Tenure-track faculty are aware of expectations to produce scholarship, teach, and provide service worthy of tenure. But when, where, and more significant, with whom can the ongoing relationship with theory occur? What are the benefits of a community that has been developed to facilitate the dialogue on theory? Of paramount concern, how can the dialogues count towards tenure?

Rap Music and Hip Hop on Amerian College Campuses

Earnest Bracey — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:31:53 PST

My session will cover how many young African Americans believe that Rap music and Hip Hop is more important and relevant today on college campuses than the Civil Rights movement, or learning about the great works'. But one must seriously question whether Rap music and/or the Hip Hop culture is more significant than the movement that gave most Americans in the United States a modicum of equally in our institutionally racist society.

Race, Civil Rights, Ignorance, and the All-White Classroom

Michael A. Foley — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:24:41 PST

While students have heard and know something about Brown superficially, they remain ignorant about civil rights issues in general. My paper will demonstrate how I balance the necessary removal of ignorance with the need to maintain course substance and integrity.

The Welcome Theory: An Explanation for the Decreasing Number of African Americans in Baseball

David C. Ogden — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:33:02 PST

The percentage of African Americans on the rosters of major league baseball teams is at a 30-year low, while the percentage of Caucasian players in the major leagues has remained relatively stable. Research indicates that the number of African Americans will continue to drop. The Welcome Theory uses several theoretical perspectives to explore why African Americans have turned away from baseball and embraced other sports, such as basketball. The theory has implications for designing sports programs that socialize youth into sports.

Developing, Implementing and Assessing Effective Strategies to Build an Inclusive Campus Climate

Jerusalem T. Howard — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:28:46 PST

This session outlines steps to create and to sustain an inclusive campus climate. Presented strategies will focus on recruitment and retention, student and faculty mentoring, and community outreach. Strategy implementation recommendations discussed include gaining executive support, leveraging existing programs, and maximizing technology. Creating success metrics will also be covered.

Still Not the Stars: African Americans As Social Minorities in Television Advertising

Karie L. Hollerbach et al. — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:17:09 PST

Advertising can either provoke or prevent cultural change. It articulates ideas about social class, cultural values. and societal power. African Americans are still being presented in television advertising as members of social minorities who are less likely to speak, to assume positions of authority, or to personify dominant middle class values in America.

Struggling with Declining Diversity in Professional Programs

Sandra K. Squires et al. — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:17:08 PST

In 2001, women faculty began a study of minority enrollment in UNO's College of Education. They'll overview their demographic analysis, review of the literature, interviews, collaborative efforts with Latino and Native American community agencies and other struggles as white women trying to address the decline of diversity in their institution.

Why don't they stay? Exploring supervisors' level of intercultural sensitivity and employee perceptions of fairness in the workplace

Gina S. Matkin — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:08:58 PST

"My supervisor is nice, but she/he just doesn't understand me!" This statement may help explain some of the mixed success for predominantly white workplaces in retaining people of color. This presentation outlines a dissertation study exploring the relationship between intercultural sensitivity of leaders, and followers' ratings of workplace fairness. Demographic similarity or difference between supervisor and supervisee will also be considered as a moderating variable. Findings may help us to better understand how workplace relationships impact issues related to retention.