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Agenda

8:30 AM Registration/Coffee

9:00 AM Welcome, President Stephen Charles Ainlay

9:15-10:30 AM New Approaches to Gateway Courses Panel

Moderated by Gretchel Hathaway Tyson, Senior Director of Campus Diversity and Affirmative Action, Union College

                                    Susan Singer, Professor of Biology, Carleton College
                                    Mark Somerville, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Olin College
                                    Leslie Gregg-Jolly, Professor of Biology, Grinnell College
                                    Cherrice Traver, David Falk and Elynor Rudnick-Falk Professor of Computer
                                                                 Engineering and Dean of Engineering, Union College

10:30-10:45 AM         Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 PM Counteracting Stereotype Threat Through Mentoring

Moderated by Steven Yao, Associate Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives, Associate Professor of English, Hamilton College

Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Columbia University

Steven Stroessner, Professor of Psychology, Barnard College

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00-1:50 Peer-led Learning Panel

Moderated by Adele Wolfson, Nan Walsh Schow '54 and Howard B. Schow Professor in the Physical and Natural Sciences, Professor of Chemistry, Wellesley College

Megan Nunez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mt. Holyoke College

Alison J. Draper, Director, Science Center, Trinity College

1:55-2:45 Best Practices Discussion

2:45 – 3:00 Closing/Coffee

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