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Thursday, February 19, 2004 - University Center (20th St & 10th Ave) Spruce A & B
8:30 am
 
 Registration Opens
9:00 am
10:30 am
Welcome Arts & Sciences Associate Dean Rich Trahan
10:45 am
12:00 pm

Session #1
Grundman, Dolph - Metropolitan State College of Denver:
"Brown: A Victim of Circumstance?"
Junne, George H. - University of Northern Colorado:
"Historical Overview of Legal Cases that Led to the Brown Decision."
Delgado, Vivian - Metropolitan State College of Denver
"Bi-Racial and Intertribal Identities"

12:15 pm
1:30 pm
Lunch (TK Dining Hall)
1:45 pm
3:00 pm
Session #2
Moore, Jonathan - Indiana State University
"Brown Now and Then: Busing in Boston to Desegregate Public Schools."
Nash, Chad - University of Northern Colorado
"Attitudes/Expectations for Educational Attainment: A Class or Race Issue?"
Posselt, Julie - University of Northern Colorado
"'Mississippi Justice, Milwaukee Style': Freedom Schools and the Milwaukee United School Integration Commission, 1964-1966."
3:15pm
4:30pm
 Video: The Road to Brown (56 minutes)
6:30
 
 We will be reserving space at a restaurant if you would like to join us. This cost is on your own.

 

Friday, February 20, 2004 - University Center (20th St & 10th Ave) Columbine A
8:30 am
 
 Registration Opens
9:00 am
10:00 am
Welcome by Dr. Carlotta LaNier and UNC President Kay Norton
10:30 am
11:45 pm
Session #3
Hopson, Cynthia Bond - University of Memphis
"The Children of Freedom - Only the Strong Survive: Brown vs. Topeka, 50 Years Later."
Pereira, Rachel - Rutgers University
"Fifty Years Post Brown v. Board: Desegregation as a Compelling Interest for Student Educational Outcomes in Public Schools."
Wilson, Erin - University of Northern Colorado
12:00 pm
1:30 pm
Lunch (TK Dining Hall)
1:45 pm
3:00 pm
Session #4
Pulos, Steven Jacobson - University of Northern Colorado
"Teacher Competence Examinations and the African American Teacher: Legal and Policy Considerations."
Finley, Laura L. - University of Northern Colorado
"Beyond Social Justice Content: Shifting Power Relations in the Classrooms."
MacFarlane, Lindsey - University of Northern Colorado
"Roadblocks to Reintegration: An Analysis of Public Perceptions Surrounding Felons' Access to Higher Education."
3:15pm
4:30pm
 Session #5
King, Richard, Kathy Whitaker and Linda Vogel - University of Northern Colorado
"The Next Fifty Years: Implications of Brown for Policy Makers and Educational Leaders."
Corman, Rhonda R., and David Aske - University of Northern Colorado
"Desegregation and a Level Playing Field: The Spirit of Brown vs. the Board of Education."

 

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - University Center (20th St & 10th Ave) Columbine A
8:00 am
 
 Registration Opens
8:45 am
9:30 am
Welcome by Jared Polis, UNC Education Dean Eugene Sheehan
9:45 am
12:15 pm
Workshop starts with comments from Dr. Carlotta LaNaier. Dr. Anita Fleming-Rife will present a work-in-progress video she is working on in which she has interviewed Black teachers who had taught under the segregated school systems. "I, Too, Sing America."
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
Lunch (TK Dining Hall)
2:00 pm
2:25 pm
Fleming-Rife, Anita - Bowie State University
"Framing of Brown v. the Board of Education in Two Topeka, Kansas Newspapers, in 1953 and 1954."
2:45 pm
4:15 pm
Closing Panel / Q&A Session/Discussion

LAST UPDATED: February 25, 2004
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