UC-wide conference on "Changing the Culture of the Academy"
March 22, 2007 @ UC Berkeley

The conference will consider new paradigms for rethinking the academy that are rigorously inclusive of a variety of cultural and disciplinary traditions, learning styles and identities.

Keynote Speakers: Professor Troy Duster (Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge); Maria Ledesma (UCLA Student Regent)

Panel and Workshop Topics Include:

* Diversity and Excellence
* Disciplinary Cultures, Standards and Reproduction of Knowledge
* Pedagogy and Diversity
* Mentoring Across Difference
* Rethinking the Pipeline Post Proposition 209
* Disability in the Academy

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE http://cci.berkeley.edu/news/register.html
Limited Travel Stipends Available

For more information, visit http://cci.berkeley.edu/news/
or contact community_initiative [at] lists [dot] berkeley [dot] edu

Sponsors: President Robert Dynes, UC Office of the President; Chancellor
Robert Birgeneau, UC Berkeley; National Science Foundation; Graduate
Divisions, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UCSF, UC Santa
Cruz; Division of Social Sciences, College of Letter & Sciences, UC
Berkeley; Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley