Promoting a Diverse Social and Cultural Life

Tentative Conference Agenda
November 17-19, 2006
Barnard College, New York

Friday, November 17

5:00 - 7:30 pm Registration
Barnard Hall Lobby

6:00 – 7:30 pm Reception and icebreaking activities
James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

7:30 - 9:00 pm             Dinner

                                    Welcome
                                     James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor
                                    Eman Bataineh, Barnard College Student Government Association President

Saturday, November 18

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30am             Welcome
                                     James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor
                                     Dr. Dorothy Denburg, Dean of the College, Barnard College
                                     and CHAS Chair

9:30 – 11:00 am           Keynote Presentation
                                    James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor
                                    Dr. Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education.
                                    Teachers College, Columbia University
                                    Derald Sue is Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of
                                    Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University.
                                    He has written extensively in the field of counseling psychology and multicultural
                                    counseling/therapy and is the author of a best-selling book, Counseling the
                                    Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice. Dr. Sue has served as president
                                    of the Society of Counseling Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study
                                    of Ethnic Minority Issues. His ground breaking book, Overcoming Our Racism:
                                    The Journey of Liberation, helps readers understand and combat racism in
                                    themselves. It defines racism not only as extreme acts of hatred we often read about
                                    from others, but as "any attitude, action or institutional structure or social policy that
                                    subordinates a person or group because of their color." This landmark work offers
                                    an antidote to this pervasive social problem.

11:00 am – 1:00 pm     Concurrent Workshops A and B

                                   A – Faculty/Administrator Roundtable
                                   Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
                                   Discussion of Best Practices
                                   Facilitated by Geneva Foster (Bard College) and Sonny Ago (Barnard College).

B – Students
                        James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor
                        Social Justice in Education
                        Facilitated by Dr. Suraiya Baluch, Director, SHARE Program, Princeton
                        University and Dr. Karen Singleton , a member of the Counseling and Psychological
                        Services/Health at Columbia University.

                        Dr. Suraiya Baluch is the director of Princeton University's Sexual
                        Harassment /Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE)
                        office. Dr. Baluch, a psychologist, most recently the associate
                        director of counseling services at Barnard College. She also served as
                        a clinical supervisor for Columbia and Barnard's Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence
                        Support Center and as an advisor to Columbia's Sexual Violence Prevention
                        and Response Program.

                        Dr. Karen Singleton joined Counseling and Psychological Services/Health
                        at Columbia in 2003. Prior to coming to HSC, Karen completed her internship
                        in clinical psychology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Karen returns
                        to Columbia after having been the Coordinator of the Barnard-Columbia
                        Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center. She completed her undergraduate degree
                        in Women's Studies and Political Science at Barnard College, and received her
                        Ph.D.in Clinical Psychology from The City University of New York Graduate Center.

                                    Karen's professional interests include working with survivors of sexual trauma,
                                    students of color, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual students. In addition to her work at
                                    Columbia, she holds an adjunct faculty position in Beth Israel Medical Center's
                                    Department of Psychiatry.

1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch
Altschul Atrium

2:00 - 3:20 pm Campus Teams conduct 'Action Planning' for their school
Breakout Rooms

3:20 - 4:40 pm Teams share their action plans
James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor
Facilitated by Kidan Kassahun (CHAS)

4:40 - 6:30 pm          Tour of Harlem (and other interesting places)
                                    Barnard students will take visiting students on excursions through NYC
                                    neighborhoods.

7:00 - 8:00pm Dinner
James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

8:30 - 11:00am             Social Activity
                                     Different fun and exciting social activities will be available at this time!
                                     Explore NYC, bond with students from other campuses, or take this time to
                                     relax on campus.

Sunday, November 19

8:00– 9:30am Breakfast

9:30 - 11:00                 Closing Speaker
                                   From ideas to action: On Self-determination and Building Allies
                                    Ewuare Osayande
                                    James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor
                                    Since he published his first book of poems, An Afrikan Awakening , in 1991,
                                    Ewuare Osayande has been waking up minds and sparking souls across the
                                    country with his iconoclastic and uncompromising passion for justice. Ewuare
                                    Osayande is a dynamic lecturer on issues ranging from race, class, gender, culture
                                    and religion to war, the environmental movement, social justice and globalization. He
                                    has spoken at over 500 different educational, religious and community centers from
                                   Harvard University to Howard University, from Riverside Church in New York to Al
                                   Aqsa Mosque in Pennsylvania. Ewuare Osayande was the first Poet in Residence
                                   for the African American Studies Program at Rutgers University in Camden.

11:00 – 12:00 noon Student Organized Plenary, “Where do we go from here?”
James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

12:00 noon Summary and Evaluation
James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

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