Black Leadership Across Campuses
BLAC Fall 2023 Virtual Symposium @ Rice University
HBCUs & IDENTITY FORMATION
September 22 & 23, 2023
Part of a series of conferences addressing a range of themes that explore the mission and cultural world(s) framed by HBCUs.
“Black Leadership Across Campuses” (BLAC) – expands our efforts to foster new generations of impactful leaders and recognizes a need to move beyond individual campuses in ways that serve to dismantle the divide between historical Black institutions of higher education (HBCUs) and predominantly white institutions of higher education (PWIs). The goal is to develop and nurture strategies for fostering generations of academic leadership equipped to address issues of justice demanding attention, and to do this in ways that entail collaboration across HBCUs and PWIs.
Friday, September 22, 2023
All times are CST
1:00 PM
Welcome & Introduction
1:10 - 2:10 PM
Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes | Harvard University
Booker T. Washington’s Protestant Coloniality in the Afterlife of the Plantation
2:20 - 3:20 PM
Dr. Carol Hightower Parker | Texas Southern University
Personal, Social, and Cultural Identity Development: My HBCU Experience
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Dr. Jeanelle Hope | Prairie View A&M University
Teaching Black Fugitivity: The Role of HBCUs and African American Studies in the era of Anti-Black Fascism
4:40 - 5:40 PM
Dr. Cheryl Kirk Duggan | Dr. Cheryl Enterprises, LLCCapitalism, Classism, Colorism, and Code Switching: Challenges to Healthy Black Identity in Higher Ed
5:50 - 6:50 PM
Dr. Jakia Marie | Grand Valley State UniversityTies That Bind: HBCUs as a catalyst for identity development and incubator for Pan-African realization
Saturday, September 23, 2023
All times are CST
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Dr. Candy Ratliff | Texas Southern University
HBCUs and Identity Formation: One Heart, Two Worlds
10:10 - 11:10 AM
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn | Virginia Union University
The Irrefutable Power of People: Estimating the Influence of HBCUs on Students’ Personal and Collective Identity Formation
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Dr. Maurice Hobson | Georgia State University
Pressing on for the Prize: The Long Shadow of Jim Crow for Black College Goers in Today’s Society
Black Leadership Across Campuses (BLAC)
A Joint-Project by CERCL and the Virginia Union University Center for the Study of HBCUs
