Consortium
on High Achievement and Success
Work Group on the Retention, Success and Satisfaction of
Black and Latino Male Students
Program Development Conference
November 15-17, 2002
Middlebury College, Vermont
Conference Program
Friday, November 15, 2002
4:00-7:00
p.m.
Arrival, Registration and Check-in
Kenyon Athletic Facility
7:00-8:00
p.m.
Welcoming Reception
Kenyon Lounge
Host: Marichal
Gentry, Middlebury College
Co-Chair of the
Meeting
Comments by:
Valeriano Ramos, Jr.,
Trinity College,
Co-Chair of the Meeting
and Kidan Kassahun,
Consortium Coordinator
8:00-11:59
p.m.
International Fashion Show
McCullough Student Center Social Space
Free admission.
Optional.
Saturday,
November 16, 2002
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
Kenyon Athletic Facility
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Welcoming remarks and discussion on the conference format
Kenyon Lounge
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Workshop 1 - Black and Latino male student organizations: learning from
each other
Kenyon Lounge
Students meet to
discuss a variety of topics: how to establish, develop and/or strengthen
a Black and Latino male student organization. What are the goals of
these kinds of organizations in addressing the needs of Black and Latino
male students? What kinds of peer mentoring programs can this
organization develop? What roles do faculty and administrators play
vis-á-vis these organizations?
Workshop 2 - Faculty-Student Mentoring
Kenyon Classroom
Faculty and
administrators from the various campuses share information about their
pilot programs on faculty-student mentoring. Ayanna McConnell,
Coordinator of The University
Mentorship Program at the University of Michigan will present on
enriching the first-year experience by providing entering freshmen with
a faculty or staff mentor and an upper class student.
Discussion on how to develop a successful program follows.
11:10-11:55 a.m.
Workshop 3 - Leadership Development and Community Service
Kenyon Lounge
Students, faculty and administrators learn about various student
leadership and community service efforts. Discussion focuses on how
these
programs and activities foster satisfaction and success among
Black and Latino male students.
12:00 noon – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Kenyon Lounge
Keynote Speaker:
Juan Flores, Ph.D.,
Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate School
Professor Flores, a well known scholar in the field of
Puerto Rican and Cultural Studies, has been
teaching at the college level since 1968, when he was named Assistant
Professor in the Department of German Studies at Stanford University. He
moved back to New York in 1975 and became Research Director in the area
of Cultural Studies at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY, now at
Hunter College). He then took a position as Associate Professor in the
Sociology Department at Queens College. In 1989 he transferred to the
City College for one year as Director of the International Studies
Program, and then as Full Professor (1992) in the Department of Latin
American and Hispanic Caribbean Studies. As a member of the graduate
faculty in the Doctoral Sociology Program he has taught sociological
theory and cultural studies at the CUNY Graduate School since 1991. In
1994 he was appointed Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at
Hunter College, a position he held until 1997. Prof. Flores has been a
member of the Board of Directors of the New York Council on the
Humanities and has consulted for the Smithsonian Institution and the
Rockefeller Foundation. His major book publications are Poetry in
East German, Memoirs of Bernardo Vega, Divided Arrival,
Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity, and La
Venganza de Cortijo y Otros Ensayos. His new book, From Bomba to
HiHop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, is forthcoming in
Columbia University Press in early 2000. His essay on the Puerto Rican
writer Antonio S. Pedreira was awarded the Casa de las Americas prize in
1980.
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Workshop 4 – Communication in
Relationships
Kenyon Lounge and breakout rooms
This workshop will look at the key issues that impact on the
racial/ethnic, cultural and social aspects of relationships among Black
and Latino students in our campuses. Facilitators from InnerWorkings
Institute will facilitate an interactive workshop for students.
2:00-3:00
p.m.
Workshop 5 – Evaluating our
programs
Forest East Lounge
This workshop will
focus on how to evaluate the impact of our student leadership/community
service and faculty-student mentoring programs on our students. Alma
Clayton-Pederen, Vice President
for Education & Institutional Renewal at AAC&U will give a presentation
and lead discussion.
This workshop is for faculty and administrators.
4:15-4:30 p.m.
Program Planning Overview
Kenyon Lounge
There will be a short outline on how
to conduct effective team meetings that focus on program planning and
development
4:30-5:50 p.m.
Team Meetings
The various campus
teams will meet in separate tables to discuss program ideas, strategies
and action plans drawing from the workshops and the keynote
speaker’s comments. The teams
will develop action plans with specific goals, activities and a timeline
for implementation. These action plans may include
enhancing existing programs or
efforts as well as funding and resource procurement. Teams will be asked
to give short 5-minute presentations during the
Plenary Session.
6:00-6:30 p.m.
Plenary Session
The Torian Room
All of the teams will
present short (5-minute) summaries of their action plans. They’ll share
and exchange ideas on specific strategies, programs and
activities. We will then discuss follow-up
activities (future meetings, etc.) for the Work Group.
6:30-7:00 p.m.
Recess
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Dinner and Closing Remarks
Le Chateau
8:30-11:00 p.m.
Events:
Roots Concert, optional.
Sunday,
November 17, 2002
6:00-8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
At the hotels
9:00 a.m.
Departures – Shuttle Pickup
Shuttle buses pick up
everyone at the hotels at designated times. Please be ready to leave on
time.
