Program
THURSDAY, JULY 10, Evening
| Time | Session | Room |
| Noon - 5:30 | Registration | Foyer |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Reception (open bar) Official Welcome |
Foyer |
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Plated Dinner Keynote Address:
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Gallery 2 |
FRIDAY, JULY 11
| Time | Session | Room |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast & Networking | Foyer |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Chairperson's Welcome David A. Kravitz |
Gallery 2 |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Facilitated Discussion: What should be the goals for diversity classes and training? Facilitator: Bernardo M. Ferdman |
Gallery 2 |
| 10:30-10:40 | Break [light refreshments] | Foyer |
| 10:40- 12:10 | Workshop: Metrics & measurement of training/teaching success: Awareness, attitudes, and knowledge. Co-leaders:Caren Goldberg and Maria Mercedes Olivieri |
Gallery 1 |
| 10:40- 12:10 | Workshop: Diversity training in organizational context
Co-leaders: Mary L. Connerley and Renee Yuengling |
Gallery 3 |
| 12:10- 1:10 | Buffet Lunch & Networking | Foyer |
| 1:10 - 2:40 | Workshop: Metrics & measurement of training/teaching success: Skills, competencies, and behavior. Co-leaders: Eden B. King and Maria Morukian |
Gallery 1 |
| 1:10 - 2:40 | Workshop: Diversity training in global context. Co-leaders:Mary Lou Egan and Karyn Trader-Leigh |
Gallery 3 |
| 2:40 - 2:50 | Break [light refreshments] | Foyer |
| 2:50 - 3:50 | Keynote Address: Bernardo M. Ferdman will present "On the shoulders of giants? The role of scholarship and research in diversity teaching and training" |
Gallery 2 |
| 3:50 - 4:00 | Break [light refreshments] | Foyer |
| 4:00 - 5:30 | Scholar Panel: What guidance do research & theory offer for diversity education (both teaching & training)? Panelists: Derek R. Avery and Lynn Bowes-Sperry. |
Gallery 1 |
| 4:00 - 5:30 | Workshop: Bridging the research-practice gap in diversity training. Co-leaders: David A. Kravitz and Howard J. Ross |
Gallery 3 |
| 5:30 - 6:45 | Open time | |
| 6:45 | Dinner (group reservations will be made at two or three restaurants) |
SATURDAY, JULY 12
| Time | Session | Room |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast; Chairperson's Welcome | Foyer |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Practitioner Panel: What problems encountered by diversity trainers and teachers call out for research on what works? Panelists: Gwendolyn K. Crider, Shirley Davis, and Tammy L. MacLean. Moderator: Ron Ophir. |
Gallery 1 |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Workshop: Dealing with resistance to diversity teaching and training): Structural (preplanning & positioning) and process approaches. Co-leaders: Kecia M. Thomas and Mauricio Velasquez |
Gallery 3 |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break [light refreshments] | Foyer |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Keynote Address
Mary-Frances Winters will present "Diversity training: Does it make a difference?" |
Gallery 2 |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Chairperson's Farewell Address | Gallery 2 |
| 11:45 onwards | Networking time |