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12th Annual Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference
This conference is a cross-disciplinary forum designed to provide graduate and professional students of color the opportunity to present their original
work to a community of peers, colleagues, and faculty.
Dates April 11 - 12, 2008
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
For more information and important dates click here.
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17th Annual African American and Latino/a American Adult Education Research Symposium
This year's conference theme is "Social Outcry Continues: Civil Disparity, Cultural Commodification & Social Distancing Affecting Communities of Color," which coincides with the mission of the Symposium Executive Committee.
The mission of the symposia over the years has been to raise the level of awareness regarding social issues that have had detrimental societal impacts on Communities of Color.
Call Paper deadline: February 15, 2008
Location: Northeastern Illinois University Student Union in Chicago
Date: April 19, 2008
Contact: All submissions should be forwarded via email to Dr. Daniela Truty, Northeastern Illinois University, Department of Educational Leadership & Development at d-truty@neiu.edu.
For call for paper & more information click here.
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The African American and Latino Student Leadership Conference
Presented by the Illinois African American and Latino Higher Education Alliance (IALHEA), this conference's theme is "A Place of Our Own: Social Justice in Illinois Higher Education." The goal is to inform African American and Latino students of the unique contribution of African American and Latinos in the quest for access to Illinois public and private institutions of higher education (two and four year colleges and universities); and to inculcate leadership skills and values in order to counteract continuing assaults to higher education for traditionally under-represented groups.
Location: University of Illinois Chicago, The Forum, 725 West Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60607
Date: April 19, 2008, 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
For more information click here.
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The Joint Professional Development Conference and Student Research Forum
Presented by the Illinois African American and Latino Higher Education Alliance (IALHEA), this conference's theme is "Diversity: The Assault on Traditionally Underrepresented Groups." The goal is to combine the annual professional development conferences of the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education (ILACHE) and the Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE); and to increase African American and Latino networking, mobilization, and advocacy on issues pertaining to the concerns of traditionally underrepresented groups in higher education in Illinois.
Location: University of Illinois Chicago, The Forum, 725 West Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60607
Date: April 24, 2008, 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
For more information click here.
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