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OASPA/OCPA 2012
Annual Conference
Ohio's Conference for Student Affairs
January 25 - January 27, 2012
Worthington, OH
Double Tree Hotel |
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2012 Pre-Conference - "On the Margins "
What does it mean to be an underrepresented student in higher education today? Marginalized students today are not limited to race, gender, sexual orientation. Rather identity is constantly being formed in connection to social structures like the military, our foster care system, and the prison system in the United States.
In order to know what the future holds for diversity in higher education, it is imperative that we examine all aspects of identity. During our Pre-Conference we will explore students with a variety of identities that are truly on the margin. Students who are veterans of war, those who have aged out of the foster care system, and students with parents who are incarcerated are just examples of the social structures that we will take on during our afternoon together.
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Multicultural and Diversity Practitioners
- Administrators interested creating better support models to aid in student success for underrepresented students
- Mid-level professionals with high student contact who are interested in having a better understanding of their student body
- Graduate students and young professionals interested in careers in diversity and inclusion
CONFERENCE GOALS
- Greater understanding of the less discussed identities
- Increased ability to actively participate in diverse discussion
- Improved openness to others' beliefs and views
- New ideas for support and collaboration in efforts to serve campus constituents
CONFIRMED GUEST SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
Mansfield Frazier
Mansfield Frazier began writing seriously at age 50 while serving a sentence in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit credit cards, a nefarious career he'd pursued for close to 30 years. During his last incarceration he wrote From Behind the Wall, Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass. The hardback was published the same month he was released from prison for the final time, in April of 1995.
Within a month of regaining his liberty he began work as an associate editor of a local newsmagazine. He went on to hold the position of editor at a number of urban weeklies, and his writing currently is featured nationally on The Daily Beast/Newsweek, among numerous other outlets.
For the last decade he has been in the vanguard of the reentry movement and he and his wife Brenda (who holds a master's degree in Social Work) are co-publishers of Reentry Advocate, a national magazine that goes into various prisons, libraries, county jails, halfway houses and prison ministries around the United States.
Mansfield resides in the Hough neighborhood of his hometown of Cleveland, OH where he enjoys tending the grapes on his inner-city, three-quarter acre Vineyards of Château Hough.
Rabekah D. Stewart, M.A.
Project Director, TRiO Upward Bound Program
The Ohio State University
Ms. Stewart has a Bachelor's of Science degree in English and Secondary Education from Lincoln University, a Master's degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Leadership at Walden University. Her research interests include social action initiatives in education and first-generation college students. Ms. Stewart taught high school English for five years, and most recently, was an adjunct instructor in the English Department at Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio.
Ms. Stewart began serving in the TRiO programs first as a GEAR UP educational advisor at the University of Kansas, and then as the Academic Coordinator for Wittenberg University Upward Bound Program in Springfield, Ohio. Finally, Ms. Stewart's passion for learning and student success led her to Buckeye land as the Project Director for The Ohio State University Upward Bound Program.
Chris Bennett Klefeker
Higher Education Chair for Ohio Reach
Academic Adviser, Retention Specialist, Foster Care Liaison and Adjunct Faculty
Miami University Hamilton
Chris received both a Bachelors in Social Work (BSW) and a Masters in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education (MA) from Ball State University. Since 2001 she has worked as an academic adviser and retention specialist for Miami University. She has presented at five national and three regional NACADA conferences where she facilitated sessions on working with foster care alumni, adult learners, students on academic probation in addition to hosting a pre-conference session on advisor training. She has been twice published within NACADA and since 2006 has been the NACADA's representative for Casey Family Program's Higher Education Consortium.
In 2008 Chris co-founded Ohio Reach; which gained NACADA allied org status (and a small NACADA grant) in 2009. They have hosted three state wide summits with the endorsement of the Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
HOTEL INFORMATION
Doubletree Hotel Columbus/Worthington
175 Hutchinson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43235
Phone: 614-885-3334 | Hotel Home and Reservations
PRE-CONFERENCE CONTACT INFORMATION
Liz Gordon , OCPA Equity and Inclusion Chair and Diversity Pre-Conference Coordinator
Miami University
(W) 513.529.7903 E-mail: gordonea@muohio.edu
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