What: 8th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium, Inclusive Excellence at UVM: Building Our Collective Capacities

When: March 26 & 27, 2015.

What’s it all about: A provocative kickoff keynote presentation and
panel discussion on Real Talk About the N-Word and Other Oppressive
Language will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2015 from 4:00 p.m. –
5:30 p.m. in the Dudley H. Davis Center. This presentation will
feature keynote speaker Dr. Emily Bernard and panelists Dr. Lokangaka
Losambe, Dr. Sarah Turner and Dr. Maeve Eberhardt. This event is free
and open to the public.

On Friday, March 27, 2015 there will be a full day of symposium panels
and workshops that are designed to support UVM faculty, staff, and all
others seeking to develop skills, knowledge, and a deeper
understanding of diversity that supports excellence in teaching,
service, and research. The symposium sessions are dedicated to
learning how to work well with others, to effectively engage in
cross-cultural contact, and to navigate the expanding dimensions of
diversity in order to promote inclusive excellence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard
College of Columbia University and co-chair of the GLAAD Board of
Directors, will be the keynote breakfast speaker. Ian Haney López,
John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California-
Berkeley and author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals
Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class will be the
luncheon keynote speaker.

For more information and to register, visit
www.uvm.edu/~hrdma/blackboardjungle