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Friday, April 4th | |
| 3.00 - 5.00 | Arrival/Check in at Trippet Hall/Comfort Inn (Campus tours optional) |
| 5.00 - 5.45 | Reception, MXI |
| 5.45 - 6.45 | Dinner, Chadwick Court OR Detchon International Hall |
| 7.00 - 8.00 | Plenary Keynote |
| 8.15 - 8.30 | Session 1 Plenary |
| 8.30 - 9.15 | Breakout groups to discuss the Keynote themes and Frame for the workshop |
| 9.15 - 9.30 | Brief debriefing and vans back to Comfort Inn |
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| Continental breakfasts at hotels/Breakfast (Sparks) | |
| 8.30 - 9.00 | Session 2- Plenary kickoff putting the Liberal Arts experience frame on the day's work |
| 9.15 - 10.15 | Breakout discussion groups focusing on Institutional and Interracial issues in the liberal arts context |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | SESSION 3 : Concurrent Sessions mainly on Institutional (& Interracial) Issues 1. Effecting Institutional Change 2. Institutional Advocacy or Apathy 3. Educating our Campuses about White Privilege: Whose Responsibility? 4. Black Studies, on Curriculum issues, on Linking Black Heritage to Curriculum, taking Black Studies courses and on creative ways of getting Black content/awareness, etc. out of other (non-Black Studies) courses 5. TBA 6. Retention on White Campuses, or Being Politically Incorrect in a Politically Correct World 7. TBA |
| 12.15 - 1.15 | Lunch, Sparks |
| 1.30 - 3.15 | Session 4, PLENARY followed by breakout groups and debriefing: Framing the two I’s of Black Male Identity and Intra-racial within Black Men Group issues and self-support |
| 3.15 - 3.30 | Break |
| 3.30 - 5.00 | SESSION 5 Concurrent workshops focusing on Identity, Intra-group topics 1. TBA 2. "Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Lives of Black Male Students on Predominantly White College Campuses – Lance McCready 3. "Leadership" –Diana Ariza 4. "African American Male Think Tank: What’s Going On?" –Karen Joshua-Wathel 5. "Developing Time Management and Classroom Skills" -student-led 6. "Collaborating for Success: The Art of Tutoring" – Wabash-led, with Julia Rosenberg from Writing Center in support 7. TBA |
| 5.00 | Free time for networking |
| 6.00 | Dinner, Sparks |
| 7.00 - 8.30 | Session 6 |
| 9.00 | Student Gatherings/Brother to Brother time at MXI Vans return to Comfort Inn |
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| Continental breakfasts at hotels/Breakfast, Sparks | |
| 9.00 - 10.15 | Session 7- Discussions in mixed college groups focusing specifically (and for integration of workshop learning) on: What have we learned that works best for both institutional change and personal, Intra-group support and self-help |
| 10.15 | Break |
| 10.30 - 11.15 | Session 8 - campus groups develop action plans to take home |
| 11.15 - 12.00 | Plenary session for each institutional group to briefly share their action plans, and final reflections |
| 12.00 - 1.00 | Lunch, Sparks, Box lunches available Depart after lunch |