2024 Conference Registration Form
The division hosts an annual conference that aims to build better relationships and connections between students, faculty, staff, and administrators by engaging in timely and relevant dialogues and conversations. Additionally, the conference contains targeted breakout sessions focused on practical tools, critical conversations, and opportunities to build community within the institution. Our overall goals include, but are not limited to:
- Creating educational opportunities that contribute to student success
- Fostering positive employee environments, and
- Providing space for community-building across the institution.
2024 Conference Information
The Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is looking forward to our second annual DEI conference to help kick off the 2024-2025 academic year. On Friday, September 20, 2024, from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, the division will host Making Sense of Our Identities through Culture, Politics, Policy, and Social Constructions.
The conference will feature a distinguished keynote by Dr. OiYan Poon. Dr. Poon is an educator, author, speaker, and race and education scholar. She is co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative and a Senior Research Fellow for Education Equity at the NAACP LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute. Dr. Poon will discuss her latest book, Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family.* Additionally, the conference will welcome Angela’s Pulse to help ground our time together and help us process our new learning.
We will ask participants to critically engage with the intersections of their lived experience. Moreover, the conference will allow us to think deeply about our educational environment and how we can continue to be in community with one another during a time of war, political unrest, and intra-and inter-communal conflict. We will learn alongside one another how to mobilize the lessons of our past and present.
*Copies of Dr. Poon’s book will be made available to those attending her breakout session.
