The Consortium on High Achievement and Success

Friday, November 13^th

Time

Event

Place

4:00-6:00 pm

Campus teams arrival and hotel check-in

Hotels

6:00-7:30 pm

Conference Registration/Light Reception

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, 2^nd Floor

7:30-8:30 pm

Welcome:
Susan Kress, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Skidmore College

CHAS Alumni Panel,
Moderated by Edward Pittman,
Associate Dean of the College, Vassar College

"CHAS Student Alumni Perspectives"
Kicking off the conference, a panel of CHAS graduates will discuss the impact that past Black and  Latino Males conferences have had in their personal, academic, and community experiences while in college. They will share views on how to maximize the educational value of the conference and speak to various issues relative to their experience.

Panelists:
Randall Keith Benjamin, Swarthmore '09         
Adam Serwer,  Vassar '05,
Javier Sanchez Trinity '03

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall

2^nd Floor

8:30-9:30 pm

Social Event – CalypSoul

The Spa, Case Center

9:30 pm

Late Night with Oveous Maximus

Ove is a native New Yorker whose parents came from the Dominican Republic. He started slammin’ at the Nuyorican last season after he lost his brother to suicide. Ove has decided to devote the rest of his life to honoring his brother thru this amazing art we all call “poetry”?. Ove has produced his first solo DVD title: “Innocence in My Politics”?” and has been featured on NBC and UPN for “Showtime at the Apollo” and the reality hit series from ESPN2, “I’d Do Anything.”

The Spa, Case Center

Last bus at Midnight

CDTA Bus Run back to hotels – Please see bus schedule in the folder for times

Case Center Lot

Saturday, November 14^th

          Time

Event

Place

9:00-9:45 am

Please arrive promptly at

9:00 am

Breakfast

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, 2^nd Floor

9:45-10:45 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Darryl Smaw, Associate Dean for Mulitcultural Affairs, Swarthmore College and CHAS Steering Board Member

Skidmore Perspectives: Winston Grady Willis, Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of Intercultural Studies, and Joshua Woodfork, Assistant Professor of American Studies

~ MAKING CONNECTIONS ~

11:00 -12:15 pm

Conversation Circles/Breakout Groups

“College Connections and Empowerment I”

Various Classrooms in Bolton and Palamountain (Please see Classroom on your Name Tag!)

12:30-1:50 pm

Lunch with Speaker Marc Lamont Hill,
Associate Professor of English Education and Anthropology, Columbia University

Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers' College and faculty member for African American Studies at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.
(For more information on this Speaker/Performer please visit www.apbspeakers.com)

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, 2^nd Floor

Professor Hill’s book, Beats, Rhymes, Classroom Life: Hip Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity, will be available for sale at this time!  Cash or check only.

2:00-3:00 pm

Conversation Circles/Breakout Groups

“College Connections and Empowerment II”

Various Classrooms in Bolton and Palamountain (Please see Classroom on your Name Tag!)

3:00-3:15 pm

Break with snacks and drinks

Gannett Lobby, Palamountain Hall

~ TAKING ACTION ~

3:15-4:30 pm

Action Plans/Campus Teams, Moderated by Darryl Smaw, Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs, Swarthmore College

Davis Auditorium followed by various Classrooms in Bolton and Palamountain; (Please see sheet in your folder for your institution’s breakout room)

4:40-5:50 pm

Reports from Campus Teams

Davis Auditorium

6:00-6:30 pm

Open – Free Time

6:30 -8:00 pm

Dinner with Speaker - Dorian Warren,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University
“Preparing Your Blueprint for the 21^st Century”

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall

2^nd Floor

8:00 pm

Social Event – Café Con Leche
RAICES Talent Show

The Spa, Case Center

Sunday, November 15^th

Time

Event

Place

9:00-10:00 am

Please arrive promptly at 9:00 am

Breakfast Buffet with Speaker

Chris Rabb, Consultant, Writer, Social Commentator and Netroots Activist; Chris is currently a visiting researcher at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
"Don't Fear Success; Redefine it!"

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
2^nd Floor

10:00-11:00 am

CHAS Students Networking Session

This student-only period allows conference participants to discuss how they will maintain their conference connections.  It is an opportunity to talk about organizing a student-organized spring semester meeting, and utilizing this group's Facebook page.

11:00 am

Closing Remarks