Do you worry about your students' detachment from broader community involvement? Would you like to see them more socially engaged? This session will explore these issues with fellow faculty and staff. The session will discuss the barriers to involvement faced by this new generation and how you can help your students overcome them. The presenter will go beyond prevailing media stereotypes to understand the struggle of this new generation to find its place in a confusing world. Hearing a range of voices from "I'm not that kind of person" to "I had to take a stand." This session will examine students' concepts of social, political, and environmental responsibility, what matters in their lives, and how they view themselves in relation to a larger human community. Loeb challenges images of a generation universally perceived as apathetic and greedy, and asks how students and citizens in general can gain the moral, political, and intellectual tools to take responsibility for the future, and how faculty and professional staff can help in this journey. The session will provide an opportunity for discussion, exploring the themes Paul Loeb raises, and the experience of participating faculty, administrators and staff with what works and doesn’t work in getting students more engaged in critical social justice issues.

Paul Loeb has spent thirty-five years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment—asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain. Paul is an Affiliate Scholar at Seattle's Center for Ethical Leadership, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Mother Jones, The Nation, Redbook, the International Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor, and has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, NBC news, CBC, and the BBC. Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, winner of the 2005 Nautilus Award for the best book on social change, and Soul of a Citizen.  Book Signing by Paul Rogat Loeb to be scheduled.

Paul Rogat Loeb, Author of Soul of a Citizen, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, and Generation at the Crossroads, —Seattle, Washington

Professor of Law and Asian American Studies, and Director, Law School Clinical Program, University of California-Davis; General Counsel, Immigrant Legal Resource Center; Member, Board of Directors, Asian Law Caucus and Migration Policy Institute; Member, National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center—San Francisco, California

Bill Ong Hing, a Professor of Law, teaches Judicial Process, Negotiations, Public Service Strategies, Asian American History, and directs the Law School Clinical Program. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. His books include Deporting Our Souls—Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy (Cambridge Press 2006), Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple University Press 2004), Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford Press 1993), Handling Immigration Cases (Aspen Publishers 1995), and Immigration and the Law—a Dictionary (ABC-CLIO 1999). His book To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York University Press 1997) received the award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by the librarians’ journal Choice. He serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center. Professor Hing also served as co-counsel in the precedent-setting Supreme Court asylum case, INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987). Professor Hing is the founder of, and continues to volunteer as General Counsel for, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco. He also is on the Board of Directors of the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute.

Consultant on Organizational Change and Communication, Specializing in the Issues of Diversity—Albany, California

Frances Kendall is a nationally known consultant who has focused for more than thirty years on organizational change and communication, specializing in issues of diversity and social justice. Because she believes that personal and organizational change is possible, she is committed to facilitating the core changes necessary to create work and learning environments that are hospitable to all people. She doesn't skirt the deeper challenges inherent in helping organizations accomplish that mission. In the last ten years, she has worked with various colleges and universities, as well as numerous corporations, not-for-profits, government agencies and educational institutions. Recently she has been involved in: Facilitating an 8-year project on dialogue, women, race and privilege at Michigan State University; Providing on-going consultation to the Office of Institutional Diversity at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Leading institutes for faculty and the entire library staff at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Speaking to the U.S. Marines at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Presenting major, day-long workshops and institutes on organizational change and white privilege at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE); Guiding a strategic planning process for the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, Oakland, California; and Serving for 2 years as consultant to the provost and Diversity Fellows at Gallaudet University, the national university for the deaf, in building a strategic plan for diversity. Kendal is the author of Diversity in the Classroom.  She has received her M.S. from Bank Street College of Education and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her newest book, Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships (Routledge, April 2006) will be available for book signing.

Former President, Diné College, Tsaile, Arizona—Bozeman, Montana

Cassandra Manuelito‑Kerkvliet received her Baccalaureate and Master’s Degrees from the University of Wyoming in Social Work and Counselor Education. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in Educational Policy and Management with a special emphasis in Higher Education Administration. Dr. Manuelito‑Kerkvliet was the first woman President of the Navajo Nation’s Diné College (2000‑2003), a tribal college with eight campuses, serving 2000 students on Navajo reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. She has also worked for over 16 years in Indian higher education at the University of Wyoming, New Mexico State University, University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, and Oregon State University. In July 2006, Dr. Manuelito‑Kerkvliet assumed leadership of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe as college President.

Professor Emeritus, Asian American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California—Berkeley, California

Ron Takaki is one of the most preeminent scholars of our nation’s diversity.  He is a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught over 10,000 students during 34 years of teaching. Born in 1939, Takaki is the grandson of  immigrant Japanese plantation workers in Hawaii.  He graduated from the College of Wooster, Ohio, in 1961.  Six years later, after receiving his Ph.D. in American history from University of California at Berkeley, Takaki went to University of California at Los Angeles to teach its first Black history course.  While there, he helped to found its centers for African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American studies. In 1972, Takaki returned to Berkeley to teach in the newly instituted Department of Ethnic Studies.  He served as department Chair from 1975‑77.  His course,  Ethnic Studies 130, The Making of Multicultural America: A Comparative Historical Perspective, provided the conceptual framework for the B.A. and the Ph.D. program in Comparative Ethnic Studies, as well as for the university’s multicultural requirement for graduation, known as the American Cultures Requirement. The Berkeley faculty has honored Takaki with a Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1988, Takaki was awarded the Goldwin Smith University Lectureship at Cornell University, and in 1993, Cornell’s Distinguished Messenger Lectureship, the university’s most prestigious lecturer appointment. Professor Takaki is the author of 11 books. They include significant titles: Iron Cages:  Race and Culture in 19th Century America (Knopf, 1979) has been critically acclaimed. Now in its third edition (Oxford, 2000), this book is still widely read in college courses across the country; Strangers from a Different Shore:  A History of Asian Americans (Little, Brown, 1989) was selected by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year and by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best 100 non‑fiction books of the 20th century, with over 100,000 copies in print; A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Little, Brown, 1993) is the winner of numerous prizes, including the American Book Award.  Publishers Weekly hailed the book as a “brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies,” with over 400,000 copies in print; Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (Little, Brown, 1995) offers the first study to examine the significance of race in Harry Truman’s fateful decision.  In his welcome of the book, Studs Terkel wrote:“Ronald Takaki, a probing and perceptive historian, offers us the until now unwritten story of the bombing of Hiroshima.  He explodes the myth of its ‘military necessity’.” Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II (Little, Brown, 2000) is the only study of the “Greatest Generation” from the perspectives of our nation’s diverse racial and ethnic minorities.  This book challenges the memory of the war as a war fought only by white Americans, as reflected in the movie, ‘Saving Private Ryan’.  Takaki has been on national television to discuss issues of race, U.S.‑Japan relations, multiculturalism, affirmative action, etc.  The programs include the NBC “Today Show,” ABC “This Week with David Brinkley,” CNN “International Hour,” “Cross Fire,” “Jim Lehrer Newshour.” In 1980, the University of Wisconsin invited Takaki and Nathan Glazer to debate the issue of affirmative action.  Since then, the two of them have had debates at Michigan State University in 1994, Berkeley in 1995,  the University of  Pudget Sound in 1996, and Ohio University in 2004.  In We Are All Multiculturalists Now (1997), Glazer stated that he had changed his mind on affirmative action. In 1997, the Council on Foreign Relations hosted a debate between Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Takaki at the opening plenary session of its conference on America’s diversity and America’s foreign policy. They were presented respectively as the authors of The Disuniting of America and A Different Mirror. Takaki has lectured in Japan, Russia, Armenia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Austria, and South Africa. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Wheelock College, the College of Wooster, Macalester College, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts,  the Massachusetts College of Art, and Whitman College. He was also honored by the 2003 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award, and by the 2003 UC Alumni Association’s Award for Excellence in Achievement. In 1995, Takaki attended two seminars on race at Vice President Al Gore’s home to advise him; in 1997, he attended a White House meeting with President Bill Clinton to help brainstorm ideas for his major speech, “One America in the 21st Century: The President’s Initiative on Race.”  Significantly, Clinton took the dialogue on race beyond the black‑white binary, and presented an inclusive definition of Americans as a diverse people belonging to one nation. Takaki was elected to be a fellow of the prestigious Society of American Historians, whose membership is limited to 250 scholars including David Brion Davis and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.  Its executive secretary, Mark Carnes, stated: “Takaki has reshaped American History.” The Los Angeles Times has described Takaki as a “minority Everyman.  He is a rare hybrid, a multicultural scholar.”

Lucie Stern Professor, Social Sciences, Past Chair, Department of Psychology, and Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University—Stanford, California

Claude Steele received his Baccalaureate Degree from Hiram College and his Master’s Degree and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Steele has received the Dean’s Teaching Award at Stanford University, the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society, the Kurt Lewin Award and the Gordon Allport Prize in Social Psychology from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the Senior Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association, and the Cattell Faculty Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and he has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Univ. of Chicago, Yale Univ., and Princeton University.

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Portland State University—Portland, Oregon

How does the past, affect our future? What issues impact the notion of collective work within the black community? Why does there seem to be issues with trust among African Americans? Do we need to re-examine how we discipline children of color? 
Dr. Leary provides challenging, energetic and relevant information to the many issues of diversity, cultural competency, identity, collaboration, privilege and race relations discussed throughout NCORE.  For more information on Dr. DeGruy Leary or her book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, please visit www.joyleary.com

Those who have experienced Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary’s lectures have been stimulated,
enlightened, educated, and more during her workshops. Dr. DeGruy Leary’s seminars have been lauded as the most dynamic and inspirational currently being presented on the topics of culture, race relations and issues of social justice. Clients have included Harvard University, Columbia University, Fisk University and the University of Chicago. She has also presented to federal and state agencies such as The FBI, Probation and Parole agencies, the Juvenile Justice Judges Association and Police departments. Dr. DeGruy Leary has worked with major corporations and companies such as Nordstrom’s, Nike, the NBA’s Rookies Camp and the renowned G-CAPP program in Atlanta. Other noteworthy appearances include keynotes for the “United Nations Conference for Africans and Their Descendents” held in Barbados in 2002 and the “Essence Music Festival” that same year. Dr. DeGruy Leary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications, a Master’s Degree in Social Work, a Master’s Degree in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Work Research. Dr. DeGruy Leary is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University. Her twenty years of practical experience as a professional in the field of social work provides insight into various cultural and ethnic groups that form the basis of contemporary American society. Dr. DeGruy Leary’s workshops go far beyond the topic of cultural sensitivity; she provides specialized clinical work in areas of mental health and ecological resilience.