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"Fifty years after Brown, there is an important challenge for those of us who are involved in higher education in this country: How can we improve the ability of our universities to educate students for the world in which they will live for the next 50 years?"...click here to read the complete opening address. |
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"When I returned home from the war in Korea , 50 years ago in 1953 I was as disillusioned and disappointed as anyone could be. Job prospects were slim, and slimmer for African-Americans, even though I had graduated from college prior to being drafted into the army. I was still reeling from the impact of going overseas to fight for freedoms for those in another country when I could not enjoy those freedoms in my own country. I questioned the law and my continuing belief in the system. Just when it appeared that my positive hopes were at their nadir, something akin to a cataclysm occurred. Nine white men ruled that the law had been wrong and that a separate system of education for the American people was in violation of the U.S. Constitution."... click here to read the complete keynote address. |
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 George C. Wright |
"If we are truly to make inroads in educating for a diverse America , we must remain consistent and committed to that goal. We must understand the depth of the problems and how these problems have persisted for decades. We must also find some innovate ways to address diversity. And, perhaps ironically, we must adopt some of the ideas and maybe even the rhetoric of the past (of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s) when some very significant changes did in fact occur for minorities in American society."...click here to read the complete speech. |
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"I thought about it... Here are a number of people from different backgrounds, all speaking and differing in opinion but yet listening, learning, and reshaping. Pushing each other challenging each other, learning from each other. If our students are going to graduate from our institutions and live in a diverse society, what we need is not only the ability to say something, the confidence to say something, but the ability to be heard by others.” ...complete speech coming soon. |
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