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Leadership Forum on Diversity

Sponsored by AT&T

Monday, December 15, 2008

Burton D. Morgan Center
Denison University
Granville, Ohio

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

This forum is for presidents and other campus senior administrators. Subjects to be covered include:

  1. New frameworks related to diversity as an institutional priority
  2. Success stories from individual campuses and review of helpful strategies and best practicies and assessment tools
  3. Establish diversity as the work and priority for all on campus and requiring leadership at all levels
  4. Begin developing campus action plans
Concurrent break-out sessions are scheduled on leading diversity agendas for presidents and senior administrators.

Presenters:

Adriana Kezar, Associate Professor for Higher Education, University of Southern California. Kezar holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in higher education administration from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on change, leadership, public purposes of higher education, organizational theory, governance, access, and diversity/equity issues in higher education.  She has published over 75 articles and books and is featured in the major journals for higher education. She wrote a national report published by the American Council on Education: Leadership Strategies for Advancing Campus Diversity. 

 Daryl G. Smith is Professor of Education and Psychology at the Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. She received her Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University and a Master's degree in Student Personnel and Counseling at Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in psychology and higher education from The Claremont Graduate School. Some of Dr. Smith's research interests include diversity in higher education, evaluation and organizational change, and college governance issues.  She was a co-PI on a major project for the James Irvine Foundation to evaluate the impact of the Campus Diversity Initiative, a six-year $29 million effort that involved 28 private colleges and universities in California to increase access and success of historically underrepresented and low income students and to build institutional capacity to develop and evaluate diversity efforts.