Center for Cultural Pluralism January Events
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL PLURALISM
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Frank Livak Room, Davis Center
5-6:30 PM
Prior to Keynote is an Open House / Reception from 2:30 to 5 PM at Allen House
Dr. Lee Knefelkamp
Looking into the Next Decade: Creating the New Intercultural University, Domestic and International Combined?
Friday, 30 January 2009
Teaching to Cognitive and Cultural Diversity: Critical Issues of Microaggressions for Faculty Teaching on Social Justice and Cultural Diversity, Part 1.
With Dr. Lee Knefelkamp
Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building
9:00AM to 4:30PM ( Lunch Provided)
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
The keynote will examine the relationship between effective intercultural campuses and the multicultural competences necessary in campus leadership, faculty, curriculum, staff and students. What are the real and imaginary differences between domestic and international issues in higher education?
Is there a pernicious dualism at work?
Dr. Lee Knefelkamp is professor of higher and adult education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been a senior associate with the American Association for Higher Education in Washington, D.C., an academic dean of Macalester College, dean of education at The American University, and professor and director of the graduate program in college student development at the University of Maryland. Dr. Knefelkamp has written widely in the areas of college student development, intellectual development, cultural diversity, curriculum transformation (especially with respect to ethnicity, gender, race, and class), liberal arts and professional curriculum design. She was one of sixteen national panel members for the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ “American Commitments” Project, which explored the relationship between democracy and diversity in American culture, and she was named the 1998 Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Knefelkamp is currently part of the American Association Colleges and Universities (AAC&U's) newest initiatives, Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility. She served on the national panel that authored AAC&U's recent influential report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College. www.aacu.org/press_room/experts/knefelkamp.cfm
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Friday, 30 January 2009
In this workshop you will:
Consider the issue of cultural diversity within the context of the multicultural self and the individual faculty and student's journey towards maturity and academic excellence.
Work with and personally developing general developmental plans that can be used to generate specific designs for curriculum and instructional approaches.
Explore curriculum and instructional approaches to addressing diversity of students with greatly differing learning styles and levels of cognitive complexity and microaggressions.
Dr. Lee Knefelkamp is professor of higher and adult education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Knefelkamp has written widely in the areas of college student development, intellectual development, cultural diversity, curriculum transformation (especially with respect to ethnicity, gender, race, and class), liberal arts and professional curriculum design. She was one of sixteen national panel members for the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ “American Commitments” Project, which explored the relationship between democracy and diversity in American culture. Dr. Knefelkamp is currently part of the American Association Colleges and Universities (AAC&U's) newest initiatives, Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility. Dr. Knefelkamp served on the national panel that authored AAC&U's recent influential report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College.
www.aacu.org/press_room/experts/knefelkamp.cfm
Please email Mary Heininger to register.