It will be a tremendously important conference to attend.

The conference theme is, “Facing Our Future Together: A New Way Forward” Don’t miss it!

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Please join us at the University of Pittsburgh on June 13-14, 2024 and get ready for inspiring speakers, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities! More info and a detailed map will be provided closer to the conference date. The Early Bird registration deadline is May 1, 2024, so make sure to register now!

The conference theme, “ Defenders of the Bridge: Preserving DEI Policies for Community Success” will facilitate deep and enriching conversations around the changing climate of higher education and explore how these critical issues affect our campuses and communities.

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The annual conference theme for 2022, “#R.E.A.C.H.: Race, Economics, Academia, COVID-19, and
Health: Examining the Impact of Racism on Leaders” invites us to consider how racism impacts leaders within our student body, on our campus, and across our communities. Over the past two years, there have drastic changes in communities of color have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and we must name and address them if we have any chance of developing sustainable solutions in the return to a new normal.

This year, we invite you to submit workshop proposals that examine or address the impact of race on one or more of the other four areas (economics, academia, COVID-19, and health) through the lenses of policy, practice, pedagogy, and/or research.

Please submit this completed Presentation Proposal form and a copy of each presenter’s brief CV or
resume via email to rjb54@psu.edu by March 13, 2022. If proposals are accepted, presenters are required for register for the annual conference, which includes a one-year membership to PBCOHE. All proposals can also be submitted to the PBCOHE Journal for consideration of inclusion.

“Pipelines, Pathways, and Institutional Leadership in a Changing Climate”

Call for Proposals – Deadline January 30, 2019

Forty-eight years ago, K. Leroy Irvis, the first African American Speaker of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, founded the Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education (PBCOHE). The purpose of PBCOHE is to examine the impact of state and federal educational policies on persons of color in Pennsylvania and to advocate for the postsecondary access and success for minority students, faculty, and staff. This year’s theme, “Pipelines, Pathways, and Institutional Leadership in a Changing Climate” is intended to for us to examine the changing landscape of higher education, current policies, and practices, while considering how they serve all of the stakeholders in higher education.

In line with the Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education mission and the desire of K. Leroy Irvis to ensure that minorities have access to quality education, we invite scholars, educators, and policy makers to submit papers that examine these issues within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and throughout the nation at large. We invite you to submit your ideas, inspiration, and innovative presentations that reflect the essence of this year’s conference theme. Please submit your proposal on one of the following (or other related) topics:

• Diversity and inclusion in Higher Education
• Black and Brown Males in Higher Education
• Student Retention and Achievement
• The political climate and Higher Education
• Success for Students of Color
• Supporting Higher Education Professionals
• Funding sources for Higher Education
• Affirmative Action in Higher Education
• Health (mental and physical) and Student Wellbeing

To submit a proposal go to: https://www.pbcohe.com/uploads/4/2/1/1/42111999/2019_pbcohe_registration_booklet.pdf and look at pages 9 & 10 of program booklet.

For information go to: https://www.pbcohe.com/

The theme of this year’s conference will be “Inclusion: The New Face of Affirmative Action.” If anyone is interested in either attending, placing an ad in PBCOHE’s Annual Conference program, or would like to submit their interest to be a presenter during this conference, please see below.

http://www.pbcohe.com/annual-conference.html

Pennsylvania Black Conference On Higher Education, Inc.
http://www.pbcohe.org
47th Annual Conference

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh/Monroeville Convention Center
February 23 – 25, 2017

“Inclusion: The New Face of Affirmative Action?”
Call for Presentation Proposals

Founder K. Leroy Irvis (Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives) in 1970, founded PBCOHE with the mission to ensure that underrepresented minorities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would have access to a quality education. While the main focus remains constant, different sub-themes and issues continue to be brought forth.

The annual conference theme for 2017, “INCLUSION: The New Face of Affirmative Action?” is meant to explore various transition points for education in general and post-secondary education in particular. This theme is inclusive of issues for administrators, faculty, staff, and students.

This year we want to focus on just what the term “Inclusion” means? Who and what is inclusion targeting? Who and what is inclusion meant to serve? How will inclusion benefit minorities and other underrepresented groups? Is the term inclusion legitimate? What is the difference between Inclusion and Affirmative Action? What is expected of us in the inclusive world? Is this an evolution or a digression from the norm? Realistically, what is the norm? We invite you to submit proposals to present at the conference addressing the theme. Some topics and sub-themes include:

• What is Diversity?
• What is Inclusion?
• Is there a need for Diversity and/or Inclusion?
• The Current Disconnect – Affirmative Action/Diversity/Inclusion
• The Ethics of Inclusion
• Inclusion in the Workplace – Higher Education or Public Schools
• Developmental Issues related to Diversity and/or Inclusion
• A Sense of History about Diversity and Inclusion and Affirmative Action
• Diversity and/or Inclusion Campus Needs and Campus Climate
• Best Practices on Diversity and/or Inclusion for Campus Climate
• Diversity/Inclusion/Affirmative Action on your Campus

For more information contact:
Theo Turner
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
724-357-2598
tturn@iup.edu

Brenda Sanders Dédé, Workshops Chair
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
814-393-2223
bdede@clarion.edu

Michael Phillips, Western Region Director
Penn State University, Pittsburgh CRC
412-263-2903
map5@psu.edu

Cahndice S. Matthews
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
814-393-2072
cmatthews@clarion.edu