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Thursday, November 15
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8:30am – 6:00pm
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Registration
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CSU Ballroom
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9:00 – 9:30am
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Welcome Remark
Henry Morris, Interim Dean of Institutional Diversity
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CSU Ballroom
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9:30am – 12:00pm
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Keynote: Changing Faces, But Too Many Old Ideas: Cultivating Social Justice & Flourishing Lives.
Speaker: Carl Grant, Ph.D, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education, UW-Madison
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CSU Ballroom
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Panel Discussion on Multicultural Education
Moderator: Professor Carl Grant
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CSU Ballroom
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12:00 – 2:00pm
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Lunch
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CSU Ballroom
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Keynote: The State of Southeast Asian students in Higher Education
Speaker: Ka Vang, Diversity Programs Director, Office of Diversity and Equity, MnSCU
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CSU Ballroom
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Keynote: Changing Demographics and Their Implications for Multicultural Education
Presentation
Speaker: Phillip Chinn, Ph.D,Former Director of Center for Multicultural Education, CSU-Los Angeles
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CSU Ballroom
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2:00 – 3:30pm
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Concurrent Sessions I
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South Sudan: The world’s NEWEST nation
Presenter: Lero Odola, Masters Student in Ethnic & Multicultural Studies, MSU-Mankato
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CSU 254
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Introduction to AAPI Communication Style
Presenter: Kang Vang, Hmong filmmaker, writer, and musician and current Director of Programming for Asian Media Access
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CSU 255B
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Illegal Democracy: Undocumented youths taking their futures into their hands
Presenter: Juventino Meza, Founding Member of NAVIGATE, a network of undocumented students for access to higher education
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CSU 284A
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How Asian Are You?
Presenter: Terry Cheng, Senior Server Software Engineer, Wells Fargo
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CSU 201
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Assessing Attitudes towards Equity and Diversity at MNSU, Mankato
Presenters: Penny J. Rosenthal, Ph.D and Nadarajan Sethuraju, Ph.D
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CSU 284C
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Five Lenses for Educating and Assessing Cultural Competence
Presenter: James F. Bonilla, Ph.D, Associate Professor, School of Business, Hamline University
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CSU 253
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Indian Education: Where it was, where it is, and where it’s going?
Presenter: Ramona Kitto Stately, Indian Education Program, ISD 279, Osseo District
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CSU 204
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3:45 – 5:15pm
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Concurrent Sessions II
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Introduction to AAPI Communication Style
Presenter: Kang Vang, Hmong filmmaker, writer, and musician and current Director of Programming for Asian Media Access
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CSU 255B
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The Changing Faces of Students Becoming Multi-lingual in Minnesota Students of Color
Presenter: Jodi James, Teacher at St. Paul Preparatory School and Education Staff Writer for China Insight
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CSU 204
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How Asian Are You?
Presenter: Terry Cheng, Senior Server Software Engineer, Wells Fargo
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CSU 201
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Students of the Future: Viewing multiculturalism from multiple dimensions
Presenter: Katelyn Romsa, Assistant Professor, Counseling Student & Personnel, MSU-Mankato; Kristina Mandell; Katrina Wheeler-Floyd, MSU-Mankato
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CSU 284C
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Prejudice Reduction Workshop: How we were formed, what we do, and impacts on local community. Demonstration of Kindergarten and 6th grade curriculum.
Presenter: Greater Mankato Diversity Council
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CSU 253
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Graduate Assistants Panel: Trails, Roads, and Highways towards Higher Education
Presenters: Bruce Yang, Oscar Cueva-Bravo, Grant Eustice, Oscar Gonzalez, Barnieh Manu
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CSU 284B
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5:00 – 6:00pm
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Break
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6:00 – 8:00pm
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Dinner
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CSU Ballroom
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Keynote: Embracing Global Education
Speaker: State Senator Patricia Torres Ray, Minnesota, 62nd District
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CSU Ballroom
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Keynote: Take It Higher Than Just Higher Education
Speaker: Michael Reyes, Spoken Word Poet, Performer and Educator
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CSU Ballroom
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8:00pm
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Social Event
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CSU Ballroom
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Friday, November 16
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8:30 – 10:00am
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Concurrent Sessions III
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Encouraging Many Stories: Critical thinking and multicultural narratives
Presenter: Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Ph.D, Professor of Literature & Writing, SCC-Mankato
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CSU 255B
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Multilingual Careers, Language Access, and Technology Tools
Presenter: Tessa Donato, Certified Medical Interpreter, LinguaOne Agency
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CSU 204
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Assessing Attitudes towards Equity and Diversity at MNSU, Mankato
Presenters: Penny J. Rosenthal, Ph.D, College Student Affairs and Nadarajan Sethuraju, Ph.D, Sociology & Corrections
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CSU 284C
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Illegal Democracy: Undocumented youths taking their futures into their hands
Presenter: Juventino Meza, Founding Member of NAVIGATE, a network of undocumented students for access to higher education
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CSU 284A
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Dream Bigger, Reach Higher: Critical Thinking, Social Justice
Presenter: Michael Reyes, Spoken Word Poet, Performer and Educator
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CSU 284B
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History of American Indian Educational System and Its Effects on the Current Educational System
Presenter: Dave Larsen, Formal Tribal Chair of Lower Sioux Community
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CSU 253
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Opportunities and Challenges of Latino Educational Gap in Minnesota
Presenter: Rodolfo Guiterrez, Ph.D, Executive Director of HACER, Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research
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CSU 254
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10:00am – 12:00pm
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Brunch
Greater Mankato Diversity Council: Prejudice Reduction Workshops
Speaker: Bukata Hayes, Executive Director of GMDC-Mankato
Keynote: Changing Faces: Masking dilemmas in the curriculum
Speaker: Mwalimu Shujaa, Ed. D, Dean of College of Education and Human Development, Southern University at New Orleans
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CSU Ballroom
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12:00 – 2:00pm
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Panel Discussion with Mankato Symphony Orchestra
Moderator: Mohamed Alsadig, Quiet Storm-KMSU Radio
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CSU 253/4/5
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