SAN FRANCISCO – The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), the most comprehensive national forum on race relations, equity, and access on college campuses, will take place May 31-June 4 in San Francisco at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union and highly influential labor leader of the twentieth century, will be one of the five featured keynote speakers at the 2016 conference. Also featured are Reza Aslan, internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religion; Danny Glover, renowned actor, producer, and humanitarian; Shaun Harper, author and one of the most influential professors in the field of education; and Matika Wilbur, celebrated photographer and social documentarian.
NCORE serves as a vital national resource for higher education institutions. It offers hundreds of pre-conference institutes, workshops, and keynote addresses that provide its attendees with the tools they need to affect positive change in the campuses they represent. Topics and sessions include:
- The Pervasiveness of Racism in U.S. Higher Education
- Approaching Issues of Equity and Diversity in STEM through Multidisciplinary STEM Faculty Learning Communities
- Confronting Anti-Immigration Hysteria
- Is Race a Choice? A Conversation on MultiRacial Identification Fluidity and Ethnic Fraud in a post-Dolezal Context
- Unintended Outcomes of Diversity on Campus: White Students and Perceptions of Discrimination
- Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Activating Intersectionality to Support LGBTQ+ People of Color
- Confronting Islamophobia: Proactive Efforts to Address Hate and Bias on and off Campus
More information including registration, schedule, hotel, session list, and exhibit information can be found at www.ncore.ou.edu.
