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Retain Or Let Go!, Angela Mcintyre

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Participation in the Cultural Diversity Peer Mentoring Program is voluntary for all students. The program is developed under the supervision of the Director of Multicultural Student Services.

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Supporting Students Of Color: A Residential Peer Mentoring Model, Alana Mcclelland

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Improving the collegiate experience for students of color remains a central concern in higher education. The Students of Color Mentoring, Aiding, Retaining and Teaching (S.M.A.R.T.) Program was developed by the Office of Resident Life to assist the retention and academic achievement of students of color. This presentation highlights this peer mentoring program, its distinctive features, and its assessment results indicating positive impact on retention and academic achievement.

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Maximizing The Potential Of Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Getting Back To The Basics, John Leonard Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This workshop examines: 1) the history behind the origin of Black Greek-letter organizations; 2) their special role on campus and in the community; 3) the reasons why people join and myths about membership; 4) current concerns and problems; and 5) keys for getting back to the basics.

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Academic Achievement Through Cultural Autonomy: Enhancing Higher Education Persistence For Culturally Traditional American Indians, Terry Huffman

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This session examines the contrasting experiences between groups of culturally traditional American Indian students and the college encounter. The session will discuss the practical implications emerging from the findings of a five-year research project. Policy and educational practice suggestions for making the predominantly non-Indian campus more accommodating for Native students will be explored.

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Leaving Them Hanging: Why Predominantly White Institutions Fail To Retain Minority Students, John Leonard Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The purpose of this workshop is to help those professionals who work with and for minority college students. This workshop will examine: 1) institutional recruitment strategies; 2) campus climate and similar issues; 3) problems associated with retaining minority students; 4) the campus community and 5) keys to retaining minority students.

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A Model For Enhancing Retention Of Students Of Color: Living The Legacy, M. Colleen Jones

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Colleges and universities are very concerned and employ considerable resources toward the retention and academic success of all students; but for students of color, those objectives are particularly salient. The Melvin W. Jones Learning Community was established in 2003 (with the first class enrolling in 2004) through the initiative of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln’s African American Caucus to enhance the first-year experience and improve the retention of first generation students and students of color on the UNL campus. The learning community was originally conceived as an “urban” transition facilitator to help students from larger cities and smaller, rural …

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How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty At A Predominantly White Institution Of Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Small Liberal Arts College In Virginia, Dorothy A Smith Akubue-Brice

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This session will address historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives that should lend insight into fostering the effective performance of culturally diverse individuals within a predominantly Euro-American institutional setting. Research-based implications will be shared through the lens of three African-American female professors within such a context.

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How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty At A Predominantly White Institution Of Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Small Liberal Arts College In Virginia, Loretta C. Jones

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This session will address historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives that should lend insight into fostering the effective performance of culturally diverse individuals within a predominantly Euro-American institutional setting. Research-based implications will be shared through the lens of three African-American female professors within such a context.

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How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty At A Predominantly White Institution Of Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Small Liberal Arts College In Virginia, Carolyn E. Gross

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This session will address historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives that should lend insight into fostering the effective performance of culturally diverse individuals within a predominantly Euro-American institutional setting. Research-based implications will be shared through the lens of three African-American female professors within such a context.

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Multicultural Research Issues And Perspectives—How Do You Frame It?, Jolie Ogg Graybill

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This workshop explores issues surrounding faculty recruitment and research efforts of both faculty and students from multicultural perspectives. Presenters will utilize a panel perspective and lead audience discussion sharing tips from personal experiences.

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Multicultural Research Issues And Perspectives—How Do You Frame It?, Charlene Maxey-Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This workshop explores issues surrounding faculty recruitment and research efforts of both faculty and students from multicultural perspectives. Presenters will utilize a panel perspective and lead audience discussion sharing tips from personal experiences.

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Incarceration And The Family Today, Suzanne Mayo-Theus

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This presentation will 1) provide knowledge and theory of caregivers as it relates to incarceration, 2) lead the participants through a description of the societal concern of grandparents raising grandchildren as caregivers, and 3) encourage participants to share their own experiences and ideas associated with care giving for children with parents incarcerated.

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The Prairie Ph.D.: A New Model For Tribal Graduate Education, Diane H. Rickerl

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

A cohort of tribal college faculty and tribal professionals are working toward graduate degrees in the biological sciences through a collaborative program nicknamed the “Prairie Ph.D.” Results to date show promise for graduate education targeted at American Indian communities. Program history, approach, and formative evaluation are discussed.

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The Prairie Ph.D.: A New Model For Tribal Graduate Education, Henry S. Miller

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

A cohort of tribal college faculty and tribal professionals are working toward graduate degrees in the biological sciences through a collaborative program nicknamed the “Prairie Ph.D.” Results to date show promise for graduate education targeted at American Indian communities. Program history, approach, and formative evaluation are discussed.

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The Demise Of African American Participation In Baseball: A Cultural Backlash From The Negro Leagues, David C. Ogden

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Sixty years ago baseball was a major business and cultural force for African Americans. But the end of the Negro Leagues and the desegregation of baseball heralded a new era that marked the beginning of a cultural drift between baseball and African Americans. This paper will explore the social factors embedded in the Negro Leagues that gave baseball cultural relevance for African Americans and what is impeding those factors from operating again.

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Mentoring And Latino College Students, Cameya Ramirez

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This session will provide an overview of mentoring and how it relates to Latino college students. Session participants will be provided with information about Latino demographics, a successful program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln called NU Connections Mentoring Program, and an opportunity to hear from a student panel made up of current Latino college students.

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Swimmers Of African Descent 1988-2004, Eric H. Shanks

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This power point presentation is a discussion of the participation levels in competitive swimming organizations. The presenter will suggest that African American participation in competitive swimming is far more frequent than generally believed.

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Predominantly White Institutions As Leaders For Diversity, Jane Smith Ph.D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Predominantly white institutions have a responsibility to educate students for an engaged leadership role in respecting diversity domestically and globally. To do otherwise lessens the opportunity for academic excellence. She will provide diversity strategies for an engaged leader.

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Preferential Treatment And The Demands Of Fair Competition, Edward R. Abplanalp

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The issue of the fairness of many current affirmative action policies stands in a necessary juxtaposition with the relationship citizens have with each other in the U.S. free enterprise system. Although it is the case that many of today's affirmative action programs that involve preferential treatment are flawed and morally unjustified as they stand, it is not the case that no strong affirmative action policy is morally justified. By appealing to historical facts and basic intuitions about fair competition, I present a cogent counterfactual argument that suggests that, due to the competitive nature of our present society, some forms of …

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Developing Interactive Cds To Address Racial Intolerance On Campus, Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

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The Four Suns Of Healing, Roberto Dansie

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

We have calendars in the American continent that go back thousands of years. Researchers today confirm that these calendars not only measure the Macro-cosmos: They are also a sophisticated charting of the inner-world, particularly the dynamics between the body, the emotions, and the multiple elements that constitute our Self. These views are represented in calendars, ancient codices, and pre-Hispanic ceremonial centers. They are also alive in popular views, and traditional healing practices known today as “Curanderismo.” One of these perspectives is the use of the four suns. This presentation will explore this perspective.

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The Phenomenon Of Biculturalism And Stress Among Ethnic Minority Nurse Faculty, Sheila P. Davis

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This is an interactive presentation of a husband and wife team in which results of a methodological triangulation study that compares and contrasts ethnic minority faculty at both predominantly white and predominately ethnic minority institutions on bicultural and occupational stress are discussed. The investigator-generated, Bicultural System’s Conceptual Model, is used to interpret results and derive strategies for achieving a climate more conducive to optimal engagement of all faculty. Seven themes emerge from this study: Appraising, Proving, Fitting-In, Defending, Distancing, Being Invisible, and Mentoring are discussed in light of coping strategies used by ethnic minorities in bicultural settings. Understanding these behaviors …

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The Phenomenon Of Biculturalism And Stress Among Ethnic Minority Nurse Faculty, Melvin Davis

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This is an interactive presentation of a husband and wife team in which results of a methodological triangulation study that compares and contrasts ethnic minority faculty at both predominantly white and predominately ethnic minority institutions on bicultural and occupational stress are discussed. The investigator-generated, Bicultural System’s Conceptual Model, is used to interpret results and derive strategies for achieving a climate more conducive to optimal engagement of all faculty. Seven themes emerge from this study: Appraising, Proving, Fitting-In, Defending, Distancing, Being Invisible, and Mentoring are discussed in light of coping strategies used by ethnic minorities in bicultural settings. Understanding these behaviors …

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Why Should I Work Hard, My Teacher Doesn’T Like Me: Educational Experiences Of Impoverished Students, Katherine Sprott

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Relationships and communication are two key factors that impact learning. The values and beliefs for some white, middle class, female, teachers contradict these factors with students of color, even greater for impoverished students. Included are strategies, students’ voices, and recommendations for effective relational and communicative techniques between these two groups.

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Equality Is A Bitch! Blackness Is A State Of Mind. Internalization Of Whiteness Is A Forced Reality, Ida Stewart

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This presentation will demonstrate how the striving and struggle for “equality” by non-white students (Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, and other groups) in predominantly white educational institutions have not achieved “equality” when they graduate. They have acquired an “equivalent” rank of “as if equal” non-white elite in a non-white world separate (de facto) and unequal that is an imitation of the white world. The socioeconomic hierarchy is an abstract, powerless dependent world in a colony-like state. The power that they have serves the white powerful ruling white group more than it serves the nonwhite community. The relationship between the white ruling …

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Developing A Culturally Responsive Intervention For African American Caregivers: Encouraging Partnerships Between Universities, Medical And Mental Health Agencies, & Faith-Based Organizations, Dolores D. Tarver

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The goals of the presentation are to: 1) raise awareness about the “silent epidemic” of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (ADRD) in the African American community and factors that influence caregivers’ decisions to seek help; and 2) present a proposed model of culturally responsive services based on African worldview.

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Critical Pedagogy, Image Theater, Forum Theater And The Instruction Of Diversity Education, Franklin Titus Thompson Iii

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This interactive workshop utilizes Critical Pedagogy, Image Theater, and Forum Theater in the instruction of race, human, and gender relations. It borrows from Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal’s concept of Humanizing Education. Praxis, the dialectical relationship between thought and practice, becomes the vehicle for establishing a problem solving process that leads to “Permanent Relationships.” Participants are encouraged to discover the missing gaps of human relations by overcoming the gap between the science of “knowing” and the art of “doing.” This workshop is designed for educators and community specialists who are willing to both give and receive new information about diversity …

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Whose Voice?, William T. Waters

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This presentation suggests ways in which students of color can learn, through meaningful research experience, to place into proper context the “majority rules” of a predominantly white institution (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). This process will start with a grassroots experience in Haiti and will end with students incorporating that experience into the campus community.

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Teaching North, Teaching South: Differences That Make A Difference, Carole A. Winston

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This presentation will address challenges faced by an African American women from the North (New York City) teaching in a predominantly white institution in the South (Charlotte, North Carolina). Issues confronted include student expectations/instructor expectations; instructor’s presentation (e.g., style of dress, speech pattern and temp; interpersonal communication style); myths and half-truths about “Southern hospitality” and “Northern rudeness.”

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Equality Is A Bitch! Blackness Is A State Of Mind. Internalization Of Whiteness Is A Forced Reality, William B. Stewart

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

This presentation will demonstrate how the striving and struggle for “equality” by non-white students (Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, and other groups) in predominantly white educational institutions have not achieved “equality” when they graduate. They have acquired an “equivalent” rank of “as if equal” non-white elite in a non-white world separate (de facto) and unequal that is an imitation of the white world. The socioeconomic hierarchy is an abstract, powerless dependent world in a colony-like state. The power that they have serves the white powerful ruling white group more than it serves the nonwhite community. The relationship between the white ruling …

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Full-Text Articles in Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Retain Or Let Go!, Angela Mcintyre

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Supporting Students Of Color: A Residential Peer Mentoring Model, Alana Mcclelland

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Maximizing The Potential Of Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Getting Back To The Basics, John Leonard Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Academic Achievement Through Cultural Autonomy: Enhancing Higher Education Persistence For Culturally Traditional American Indians, Terry Huffman

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Leaving Them Hanging: Why Predominantly White Institutions Fail To Retain Minority Students, John Leonard Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

A Model For Enhancing Retention Of Students Of Color: Living The Legacy, M. Colleen Jones

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty At A Predominantly White Institution Of Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Small Liberal Arts College In Virginia, Dorothy A Smith Akubue-Brice

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty At A Predominantly White Institution Of Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Small Liberal Arts College In Virginia, Loretta C. Jones

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

How We “Fit”: African-American Faculty At A Predominantly White Institution Of Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Small Liberal Arts College In Virginia, Carolyn E. Gross

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Multicultural Research Issues And Perspectives—How Do You Frame It?, Jolie Ogg Graybill

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Multicultural Research Issues And Perspectives—How Do You Frame It?, Charlene Maxey-Harris

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Incarceration And The Family Today, Suzanne Mayo-Theus

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The Prairie Ph.D.: A New Model For Tribal Graduate Education, Diane H. Rickerl

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The Prairie Ph.D.: A New Model For Tribal Graduate Education, Henry S. Miller

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The Demise Of African American Participation In Baseball: A Cultural Backlash From The Negro Leagues, David C. Ogden

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Mentoring And Latino College Students, Cameya Ramirez

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Swimmers Of African Descent 1988-2004, Eric H. Shanks

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Predominantly White Institutions As Leaders For Diversity, Jane Smith Ph.D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Preferential Treatment And The Demands Of Fair Competition, Edward R. Abplanalp

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Developing Interactive Cds To Address Racial Intolerance On Campus, Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The Four Suns Of Healing, Roberto Dansie

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The Phenomenon Of Biculturalism And Stress Among Ethnic Minority Nurse Faculty, Sheila P. Davis

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

The Phenomenon Of Biculturalism And Stress Among Ethnic Minority Nurse Faculty, Melvin Davis

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Why Should I Work Hard, My Teacher Doesn’T Like Me: Educational Experiences Of Impoverished Students, Katherine Sprott

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Equality Is A Bitch! Blackness Is A State Of Mind. Internalization Of Whiteness Is A Forced Reality, Ida Stewart

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Developing A Culturally Responsive Intervention For African American Caregivers: Encouraging Partnerships Between Universities, Medical And Mental Health Agencies, & Faith-Based Organizations, Dolores D. Tarver

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Critical Pedagogy, Image Theater, Forum Theater And The Instruction Of Diversity Education, Franklin Titus Thompson Iii

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Whose Voice?, William T. Waters

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Teaching North, Teaching South: Differences That Make A Difference, Carole A. Winston

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)

Equality Is A Bitch! Blackness Is A State Of Mind. Internalization Of Whiteness Is A Forced Reality, William B. Stewart

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 10th Annual National Conference (2005)