OCA National Convention

July 31 - August 4, 2008
Washington, DC

Founded in 1973, OCA is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans (APA) in the United States. Originally founded as the Organization of Chinese Americans, OCA was the first APA organization to establish a national headquarters in Washington D.C. OCA has over 80 chapters and college affiliates nationwide. OCA employs 7 staff at the national headquarters.

More i nformation available at www.ocanational.org/

Leadership for Diversity Institute - National Coalition Building Institute International

August 6 - 10, 2008
Hunt Valley, MD

The Leadership for Diversity Institute teaches participants hands-on, practical skills for building cultural competency, welcoming diversity, increasing unity and inclusion. Participants learn a replicable set of skills, then practice the skills with support and encouragement from others. Participants can present their own workplace issues and receive concrete help.

Deadline: Early Registration: July 17, 2008, Late Registration August 6, 2008

Contact: Gail Vollrath, ncbiinc@aol.com, 1120 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20036, 202-785-9400 ext 10, http://www.ncbi.org/home/index.cfm

Tomas Rivera Policy Institute 5th Annual Education Conference - Call for Proposals

October 31, 2008, Long Beach, CA
Proposal Deadline: August 29, 2008

The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI), in association with the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, is pleased to announce its 5th Annual Education Conference, *Policies, Programs and Practices: Latino Education for a New Era*, to be held on October 31, 2008 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. The Institute is now accepting presentation proposals for the 5th Annual Education Conference. The conference will focus on building, expanding, and sustaining the social network of resources needed to improve the quality of education for Latinos in this era of change. Several presentation formats are available, including symposium and research panels, and policy and/or program implementation initiatives.

Contact: not available, trpi@trpi.org, 650 Childs Way, RGL 102 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, (213) 821-5615, http://www.trpi.org/

Third Annual Hispana Leadership Summit

September 11-13, 2008
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico

Hispanic Enterprise magazine and KFC are proud to announce the return of their third annual Hispana Leadership Summit. Hispanic Enterprise magazine's destination leadership conference for Latina professionals and entrepreneurs offers a true "makeover" experience, designed to sharpen skills, expand your network and reinvigorate your personal journey.

Today's most successful Latinas can take their professional and personal development to a completely new level through inspiring keynotes, interactive seminars and peer-to-peer coaching sessions.This summit is the promise of a relaxing, yet empowering weekend for women!

For more information: www.hispanicenterprisemagazine.net

Women Administrators In Higher Education 2008 Conference

September 19, 2008
Washington, DC

WAHE’s inaugural full-day conference, Connecting Women Leaders in Higher Education, will feature several speakers, concurrent sessions, a networking lunch, and a closing reception. The conference will address issues of importance to women in higher education such as Making the Education and Advancement of Women Matter; Developing Mentoring Relationships; Dealing with Difficult Employees, Peers, and Supervisors; Making Career Transitions; and The Art of Leadership, among many others. WAHE’s signature program elements, Networking and Career Connections, also will be featured throughout the conference.

Please mark your calendars now and plan to attend this inaugural WAHE conference on September 19. More information and registration materials will be forthcoming on WAHE’s new website that will be unveiled later this spring.

We’re very excited about this new initiative for WAHE and hope it will be a resounding success. Please forward this Save the Date notice to other friends and colleagues who you think might be interested.

4th International Conference on Research in Access and Developmental Education

September 24-27, 2008
Condado Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico

This conference held once only every five years brings researchers and practioners together to discuss how developmental students can best be served. The conference where all presentations are research- based is designed to provide educators from the U.S., Europe, and around the world a forum for both practitioners and researchers. This forum will not only teach practitioners the most modern, research- based techniques for serving underprepared students, it will also enable practitioners to provide researchers with guidance on emerging issues for future research. In addition, the conference features plenary and concurrent sessions presented by leading researchers and scholars in the field.

Deadline: April 30, 2008

Contact: Evelyn Asher, ashere@appstate.edu, National Center for Developmental Education, Appalachian State University, P.O. Box 32098, Boone NC 28608, 828-262-2876, www.ncde.appstate.edu

2008 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and Innovations

September 25-26, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

The 2008 Refugee and Immigrant Conference offers groups and individuals assisting refugee and immigrant children and their families an opportunity to network and learn about issues affecting refugee and immigrant children and their families, schools, health, and health care, along with the challenges of cultural adjustment. This conference is valuable if you are a ... state refugee coordinator, RCSIG coordinator, bilingual education coordinator, resettlement worker, social worker, school teacher, school administrator, counselor, university faculty, university student, healthcare professional or a refugee and immigrant services staff member.

The conference will include sessions on:

* Integration of Services
* Creating Partnerships
* Multiple-risk Families
* PreK-12 Educational Issues
* Family Life Education: strengthening refugee and immigrant
families and facilitating productive cultural adjustment.
* Health Issues
* Refugee Influxes
* Jobs: development, placement and training
* Issues of citizenship and immigration

Information and the Call for Conference Workshop Proposals can be found at http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/refugee.html. If you have any questions, please contact Lynn Osheff.

CONAHEC's 12th North American Higher Education Conference, Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context

October 8-10, 2008
Monterrey, Mexico

Stakeholders interested in higher education collaboration in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada are invited to submit presentation proposals for the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration's (CONAHEC) Twelfth North American Higher Education Conference. CONAHEC's conference "Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context" will take place from October 8-10, 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico and will be hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León within the framework of their 75th Anniversary.

Call for proposals DEADLINE: Monday, March 31, 2008

To submit a proposal, please visit: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/14671/Monterrey2008CallForProposals.htm

National Association of Hispanic MBA's 2008 Annual Conference & Career Expo

October 9-11, 2008
Atlanta, GA

The Annual Conference is where NSHMBA’s mission really comes to life. It features a career expo that serves as a pavilion of job opportunities for thousands of the most excellent Hispanic MBA professionals and students looking for a promising career. Companies that embrace diversity attend to find the most talented Hispanics, and come to this event seeking the finest candidates for a wide range of positions. The NSHMBA Annual Conference and Career Expo is an unparalleled tribute to higher education in the Hispanic community with record-breaking attendance every year. Come to NSHMBA’s 2008 Conference to CONNECT TO OPPORTUNITIES. Whether you are a student, professional, executive, or corporate representative, you will leave with a different vision, new relationships, and many promises for your own future. It all happens when you "make your connection" at NSHMBA’s 2008 Conference.

Contact: not available, membership@nshmba.org, 1303 Walnut Hill Lane, Suite 100 Irving, TX 75038, 877-467-4622, http://www.nshmba.org/

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 22nd Annual Conference

October 11-13, 2008
Denver, CO

HACU’s Annual Conference provides a unique forum for the sharing of information and ideas for the best and most promising practices in the education of Hispanics. The conference goals are to: * showcase successful, effective, and exemplary programs and initiatives of HACU member institutions * promote and expand partnerships and strategic alliances for collaboration between HACU member institutions and public- and private-sector organizations * foster and identify graduate education opportunities for Hispanic students and graduates * deliberate policy issues affecting the education opportunities of Hispanics, including HACU’s legislative agenda * promote greater Hispanic participation in scholarships, fellowships, internships and other such programs funded by private and government organizations * discuss emerging trends in higher education affecting Hispanics and HSIs, e.g., distance learning, student-centered learning, outcomes assessment, and cross-national accreditation

Contact: not available, hacu@hacu.net, One Dupont Circle N.W. Suite 430 | Washington D.C., 20036, 202-833-8361, http://www.hacu.net/hacu/Annual_Conference1_EN.asp?SnID=882994604

Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress

AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 16-18, 2008
Long Beach, California

Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress will highlight curricular, co-curricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments—environments in which all students develop, in increasingly sophisticated ways, critical knowledge, skills, and capacities for work and citizenship.

For more information: www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning

Learning Conversations Conference

October 22-24, 2008
Orlando, FL

 Join Valencia's Learning Conversations Conference as colleagues from community colleges across the country come together to share ideas, experiences, and best practices for creating learning-centered environments.

Community colleges across the country have taken the initiative to move from teaching centered to learning-centered. Refining visions and breaking traditions and habits have resulted in fundamental changes in the way we view and support teaching, learning, assessment, institutional effectiveness, and student success while serving the unique needs of our ever changing and diverse communities. Valencia’s Learning Conversations Conference is designed to elicit purposeful and substantial conversation around these changes, build on current approaches, and consider future steps to support the success of our students, faculty, staff and communities.

For more information: http://www.valenciacc.edu/LearningConference

Fifteenth National HBCU Faculty Development Symposium “Closing the Loop: Research, Assessment & Curriculum Design

October 23-25, 2008
Washington, DC

Friday Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Leonard L. Haynes, III Executive Director White House Initiatives on HBCUs Co-Sponsors: HBCU Faculty Development Network UNCF Institute for Capacity Building ♦ Co-hosts: Howard University & University of the District of Columbia

Contact: Gloria Dean Roberts, network@hbcufdn.org, Tougaloo, Mississippi 39174, (601) 977-4460, http://hbcufdn.org

American Indian Science & Engineering Society 30 Annual National Conference

Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2008
Anaheim, CA

You can’t afford to miss the AISES 30th National Conference and Career Fair! * The AISES National Conference attracts the nation's brightest American Indian students, as well as professionals in the fields of science, engineering and technology. * The 3-day event includes a Career Fair, dynamic nationally-recognized speakers, panel discussions, and workshops for students, teachers and professionals. * The Career Fair offers companies a unique forum for recruiting American Indian students and professionals. There are 1,800 participants and 200+ exhibit booths each year. * Conference sessions are provided by top trainers and are designed to benefit students and professionals alike. * Join AISES in the honoring of the 2008 Professionals of the Year and the hundreds of AISES scholarship winners and their benefactors.

Contact: Pearl Yazzie, info@aises.org, P.O. Box 9828 Albuquerque, NM 87119-9828, 505.765.1052, http://aises.org/Events/NationalConferences/2008NationalConference

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students

November 5-8, 2008
Orlando, FL

Now in its seventh year, ABRCMS is the largest, professional conference for biomedical students attracting approximately 2,600 individuals, including 1,650 undergraduate students, 280 graduate students, 30 postdoctoral scientists and 750 faculty and administrators. Students come from over 285 U.S. colleges and universities. All are pursuing advanced training in the biomedical sciences, and many have conducted independent research. The conference is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and provide faculty mentors and advisors with resources for facilitating students’ success. More than 280 representatives from graduate programs at US colleges and universities as well as scientists from government agencies, foundations, and professional scientific societies join ABRCMS in the exhibitors program to share information about graduate school and summer internship opportunities. These representatives present research opportunities, funding sources, and professional networks.

Contact: Irene Hulede, ihulede@asmusa.org, 1752 N Street, NW, Washington DC, 20036, 202-942-9295 , http://www.abrcms.org/index.html

Beyond Celebrating Diversity: ReACTivating the Equity and Social Justice Roots of Multicultural Education

November 12-16, 2008
New Orleans, Lousiana

The theme of the 2008 NAME Conference, “Beyond Celebrating Diversity: ReACTivating the Equity and Social Justice Roots of Multicultural Education,” is particularly relevant for the setting of this year’s conference in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina hit the city and the Gulf Coast regions of Mississippi and Texas, the gaps between poor people, especially those of color, and the advantaged in this country were exposed to the world. Even developing countries offered assistance to a group of people who were being neglected by a system that had been touted as the most democratic and caring in the world. As the displaced population was being dispersed across the United States, it became overwhelmingly clear the country continued to neglect large segments of the population.

Multicultural education, by that name, has been around since the late 1960s. However, it means many different things to people. Some advocates take a very critical approach to flesh out the oppression, inequities, and injustices that are hidden or ignored by much of the population. Some educators have established democratic classrooms in which students explore these issues. Some educators confront the inequities that exist in their schools and communities and integrate multicultural concepts throughout their teaching. Still others believe that they have addressed multicultural education by having international festivals and celebrating ethnic holidays and heroes. The focus of this conference is to remind us of our roots and reACTivate ourselves to establish equity and social justice in our schools and society.

Call for proposals due March 31, 2008. Registration due July 15, 2008.

For more information: www.nameorg.org/conferences.html

Facing Race: A National Conference

November 13-15, 2008
Oakland, California

The Facing Race conference is a racial justice hub bringing together activists, organizers, journalists, artists, scholars, key policy advocates and researchers interested in exploring innovative strategies and successful models for changing public policy.

Information: http://www.arc.org/content/view/487/111/

Cultural Respect in Preservation and Conservation

November 20, 2008
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Preservation and conservation of collections in libraries, archives, museums, and historic sites are guided by professional ethics, standards, guidelines, and best practices.  This year's North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) annual conference will address the issues of cultural respect.  Objects of material culture often hold intangible values for the community of origin.  Do collection institution leaders honor these values with policies of respect and community collaboration?  Some artifacts may not be intended for use or view by the public.  Do collection institution caretakers place restrictions on access and exhibition?  Some communities may wish to use artifacts in traditional ceremonies and rituals.  Do collection institution stewards approve such requests?  Some communities believe their cultural objects should deteriorate naturally.  Do preservation and conservation professionals permit this to happen?  We often profess to champion diversity in our collections.  Do we respect multicultural perspectives on the preservation and conservation of heritage collections?  Is there a moral imperative to preserve and conserve books, manuscripts, documents, photographs, film, sound recordings, art, and artifacts?  Please join us for presentations and discussions on these and other issues of cultural respect and heritage preservation.

Information: Robert James, Executive Director North Carolina Preservation Consortium, robertjamesncpc@gmail.com

National Multicultural Conference and Summit

January 15-16, 2009
New Orleans LA

National Multicultural Conference and Summit 2009 Advancing Our Communities: The Role of Social Justice in Multicultural Psychology January 15-16, 2009 New Orleans LA. The mission of the National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) is to convene students, practitioners, and scholars in psychology and related fields to inform and inspire multicultural theory, research, and practice. We envision multiculturalism as inclusive of experiences related to ethnicity/race, sexual orientation, gender, physical ability, social class, age, and other social identities. The objective of the 2009 NMCS is to promote social justice and psychological wellbeing for historically marginalized communities, as well as to explore links and tensions between social justice and multicultural psychology. To this end, participants will exchange knowledge, engage in dialogue, develop skills, and honor the wisdom within our fields and cultures.

Contact: Tania Israel, tisrael@education.ucsb.edu, www.multiculturalsummit.org

National Black Graduate Student Association

March 11-15, 2009
Houston, TX

The National Black Graduate Student Association will host it's 21st Annual Conference March 11-15, 2009 at the Doubletree Downtown Houston in Houston, Texas. The National Black Graduate Student Association is the largest interdisciplinary graduate student organization. Top minority undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of academic disciplines including business, science, humanities, computer science, law, education, health, and the medical field attend each year.

Deadline: Registration is available onsite

Contact: Dorothy Hines, vpconference@nbgsa.org, , 919-457-7329, www.nbgsa.org

10th Annual White Privilege Conference

The annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression. WPC provides a forum for critical discussions about diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion and other systems of privilege/oppression. WPC is recognized as a challenging, empowering and educational experience. The workshops, keynotes and institutes not only inform participants, but engage and challenge them, while providing practical tips and strategies for combating inequality. The WPC is pleased to announce the intiation of the WPC Youth Leadership Conference!"

April 1-4 2009, Memphis, TN

Contact: Abby L. Ferber, aferber@uccs.edu, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway Colorado Springs, CO 80918, 719-262-4139, www.uccs.edu/wpc