Educational Sessions
March 2, 2006
| Location: | Seymour College Union, Room 114 |
| Moderator: | Caitlin Landers |
| Presenter: | Rose Merrell-James, School Counselor, Rochester City School District |
| Presentation Description: | This presentation focuses on the needs, issues and concerns that students-of-color bring to the student/counselor relationship. Emphasis is placed on the role of school counselors in addressing diversity in school counseling practices and serving as advocates for academic, social and emotional support for students, thus bridging the gap between community and school. |
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| Location: | Seymour College Union, Room 220-221 |
| Moderator: | Jenna Tonkery |
| Presenter: | Tim Madigan,
Assistant Visiting Professor of Philosophy, St. John Fisher College |
| Presentation Description: | In “The Case for Contamination” (January 1, 2006 New York Times magazine) Kwame Anthony Appiah makesa plea for cultural diversification rather than cultural preservation. He credits this view to the Ancient Greek Cynics. Dr. Madigan will discuss the Cynic concept of “Cosmopolitanism” and why he agrees with Appiah that this ancient philosophy, with its inclusive universalism, has much to offer for the 21st century. |
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| Location: | Seymour College Union, Room 119 |
| Moderator: | Jeff Nutting |
| Presenter: | Kenneth J. Herrmann,
Jr., Associate Professor and Director, SUNY College at Brockport Vietnam Program |
| Presentation Description: | This presentation will examine the efforts of the SUNY Brockport Vietnam Program in helping students to immerse themselves in the culture of Central Vietnam while engaging in efforts to build friendly relationships with the people of Vietnam, assist the poor and those still suffering from the war, and communicate caring and genuine concern. The only international education program of its kind, SUNY Brockport’s Vietnam program has been functioning in Danang since it was established in 1999. The program has been the subject for hundreds of media reports around the world. |
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| Location: | Seymour College Union, Room B116 |
| Moderator: | Elizabeth Wiley |
| Presenter: | Edward Lemon, Jr.,
President, Lemon Enterprise |
| Presentation Description: | This morning more than 40 percent — some 24 million — of our children awoke in households in which their biological fathers do not live. What is this doing to our society and our way of life? |
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| Location: | Seymour College Union, Room 185 |
| Moderator: | Chris Daudnhauer |
| Presenter: | Pat Tweet,
Instructor, Department of Sociology, SUNY College at Brockport |
| Presentation Description: | Tired of always working for yourself? After Hurricane Katrina, people across the country volunteered to help flood victims. But volunteers are also needed day to day in their home communities. Come to this workshop to discover how volunteer workers rebuild relationships and civic institutions in crisis situations and on an everyday basis, and in the process, grow as people and as members of their communities. |
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| Location: | Seymour College Union Ballroom West |
| Moderator: | Greg Murray |
| Presenter: | Richard E. Matland,
Professor of Political Science, University of Houston, Texas |
| Presentation Description: | Dr. Matland will describe levels of representation and present explanations as to why the United States, at 84th in the world, finds itself far behind the levels of representation found in virtually every other industrialized democracy and more in line with the levels of representation found in Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe and Angola. |
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Zotero (Education focus)
5 pm - 6:15 pm
Naturalization Ceremony
11 am - noon
Leadership Program Kick-off
3:30 pm - 5 pm
ADP Distinguished Speaker Series "The Audacity to Heal: Our Rape Culture"
7 pm - 9 pm
Faculty/Staff Campaign Kickoff
noon - 1:30 pm
