Professors Margalynne Armstrong and Stephanie M. Wildman head for
NCORE
In 1988, The Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies launched the first Annual National Conference for Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) to address the resurgence of racist incidents in higher education. Since its inception, NCORE has evolved into a vital national resource for higher education institutions, providing an annual multicultural forum that attracts Black/African Americans, American Indians, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Latino/as, and European Americans representing campuses across the United States. For more about NCO visit http://www.ncore.ou.edu.
In this session four faculty members and a student will discuss challenges of talking with white students about race. They will also describe approaches that they have found successful at their various institutions and talk with workshop participants about what might work in their situations. Participants include: Margalynne Armstrong, J.D., Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law-Santa Clara, California; Mark Chesler, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Michigan; Adam Graham Falkner, Undergraduate Student, RC Creative Writing and Race; Relations Major, Residential College, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Michigan; Becky Thompson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Simmons College-Boston, Massachusetts; Stephanie M. Wildman, J.D., Professor of Law and Director, Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Santa Clara University-Santa Clara, California; Frances E. Kendall, Ph.D., Consultant on Organizational Change and Communication, Specializing in the Issues of Diversity-Albany, California (Facilitator); and David S. Owen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, and Coordinator, Diversity Programs, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville-Louisville, Kentucky (Facilitator).