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<div align="center"><font size=6><b>UCR's Graduate School of
Education<br>
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attend upcoming colloquia <br><br>
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<i>Dr. Walter Allen<br>
</font><font size=4>Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher
Education<br>
UCLA<br><br>
</i></font><font size=6>“Till Victory is Won: the Black Struggle for
Higher Education in<br>
California”<br>
</b>Monday, April 7, 2008<br>
1215 Sproul Hall<br>
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.<br>
</font>The underrepresentation of African Americans in higher education
is a stubbornly persistent problem. Much of what we know about the status
of African Americans in the American educational system is gained by
understanding the factors that facilitate or restrict student progress in
the academic pipeline. Changes currently underway in California signal
ongoing challenges for African American youth to gain access and success
in California higher education. Using data from the California
Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) and the California Department
of Education (CDE), we describe patterns and trends and share findings
regarding academic preparation at the<br>
secondary level, undergraduate and graduate enrollment, undergraduate and
graduate degree completion, and participation in the teaching
profession.<br><br>
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Dr. Kevin K. Kumashiro<br>
</b></font><i>Founding Director of CAOE<br>
University of Illinois-Chicago<br>
</i>Kevin K. Kumashiro is an associate professor of education and the
coordinator of Asian American Studies at the University of
Illinois-Chicago, and the founding director of the Center for
Anti-Oppressive Education. He is the author of several books on
education, including Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward
Social Justice, and Troubling Education, which received the 2003 Gustavus
Myers Outstanding Book Award.<br><br>
<font size=5><b>"Troubling Lenses and Paradoxes for Anti-Oppressive
Education"<br>
</b></font>Troubling Lenses: an informal seminar for graduate students on
the challenges of theorizing and engaging in anti-oppressive
education.<br>
<font size=5>Tuesday, April 8, 2008<br>
1215 Sproul Hall<br>
5:00pm – 6:30 p.m .<br><br>
<b>"The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the
Debate on America's Schools"<br>
</b>Tuesday, April 8, 2008<br>
UCR Extension Center (Conference Room E)<br>
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.<br>
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<font face="Garamond" size=4 color="#000080"><b>Leslie Bushong<br>
</b></font><font color="#000080">Director, California
Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI) <br>
1104 Pierce Hall<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
voice: (951) 827-4970<br>
fax: (951) 827-4971<br>
website:
<a href="http://smi.ucr.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://smi.ucr.edu<br><br>
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