Conference Opportunities

Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Bryn Mawr Summer Institute Institute 2008 Announcement
Each summer since 1976, the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute has provided a month-long residential program presenting an intensive leadership and management development curriculum for approximately seventy women faculty and administrators on the campus of Bryn Mawr College.
Date: June 21 - July 16, 2008
Location: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania
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Leadership Development Program in Higher Education (LDPHE)
Co-sponsored by APAHE and LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.), LDPHE is a four-day program of intensive leadership development designed for individuals in mid-career and preparing for advancement opportunities. 2008 is the 12th year of the program. Alumni of the program have gone on to become college presidents, vice presidents, deans, and faculty department chairs. Although Asian Pacific Islander Americans comprise 15% of college students across the U.S., less than one percent of all college and university presidents and chancellors are Asian Pacific Islanders.
Date: July 9-12, 2008
Location: Cal Poly Pamona
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2008 Summer Conference: Keeping it Civil: Religion in an Election Year
The conference seeks to answer some of our most vexing questions as a religiously pluralistic society: • What is the role of education in promoting civil discourse and religious tolerance? • How does our political process promote or hinder religious freedom, tolerance, diversity, and literacy? • As a country, how do we benefit from religious diversity? How do we avoid the kind of conflict that has led to tragedy in many parts of the world? • What does it mean to be religiously pluralistic? In particular, what does it mean for public and private organizations, including educational institutions and government agencies?
Date: July 23-27, 2008
Location: College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
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Teaching Religion & Media: Best Practices and Models for the 21st Century
pre-conference to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention. Models for innovative course designs, strategies for incorporating new media, resources for students, discussion of ethical quandaries, research about teaching religion and media, tips for approaching religion as diversity, syllabi to swap, and a networking reception. Sponsored by the Center on Religion & the Professions, the Missouri School of Journalism and the Council of Affiliates.
Date: August 6-9, 2008
Location: Chicago Marriott Downtown Chicago, Ill.
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Understanding Conflicts--Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This event is the first of a series of large international interdisciplinary meetings that will bring together researchers from different cultural background working on the analysis and transformation of conflicts due to cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity.
Date: August 19-23, 2008
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
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Sixth National Conference on: Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
This conference, which has been held biennially since 1998, is one of the most respected and well-supported conferences on cultural competence and health disparities reduction in the United States.
Date: September 21-24, 2008
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Eighth Annual Diversity Conference: "Briding the Gap" Building Community Through Diversity
Bridging the Gap strives to be informative on issues of diversity while promoting open-mindedness, celebration of diversity, and acceptance of others on our college campuses and within our communities. The conference also serves as a forum in which to establish or enhance self-awareness in relation to community building endeavors.
Date: September 25, 2008
Location: College at Brockport State University, New York
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National Diversity in Libraries Conference: Spectrum of the Future
Details available soon
Date: October 1-4, 2008
Location: Marriott, Louisville Downtown
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XII North American Higher Education Conference: Higher Education Collaboration
Join leaders and practitioners of higher education, business, government and students in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico for CONAHEC’s 12th North American Higher Education Conference!
Date: October 8-10, 2008
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Moving Beyond Mobility
The conference is part of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and is organised with the support of the European Commission. It will bring together both researchers and practitioners in the field of international youth exchanges and aims at presenting the state of the art in intercultural theory and practice.
Date: October 13-14, 2008
Location: Berlin
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Diversity Learning and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress
The conference will highlight curricular, co-curricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments—environments in which all students develop, in increasingly sophisticated ways, critical knowledge, skills, and capacities for work and citizenship.
Date: October 16-18, 2008
Location: Long Beach, California
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Ninth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
conference will address a range of critically important themes in the study of diversity today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the field, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners.
Date: June 15-18, 2009
Location: Riga, Latvia
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