Join us for a special session of our virtual 2021-22 University Advising Professional Development Series: Advising Students of Color: Do You Know Your Students? Unpacking The Effects of Implicit Bias on Students of Color.
We strongly encourage all advisors (faculty and staff) to attend. This session is also open to any staff, faculty and campus partners who would like to attend.
Details:
Wednesday, April 13th from 10:00-11:30am
Registration Link
This session will give participants the opportunity to have brave conversations, specific to the implicit bias and institutional inequities students of color face while attending a Primarily White Institution. Advisors specifically, will have the opportunity to examine how they can build a more trusting and culturally responsive environment for students of color.
About the speaker:
Malik Champlain is a Racial Equity and Social Justice Educational Consultant with the State Education Resource Center. Also, Malik is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and author of "Passion Hunger Drive: Live Your Dreams, Not Your Fears" an inspirational best-selling book. Malik has been recognized by the Hartford Business Journal 40 under 40 award recipient, 100 Men of Color Award, and several NAACP community service awards. Malik has been seen presenting on NBC, FOX News, The Grio and as a Tedx speaker. Malik resides in the Greater Hartford area with his wife Rosalyn Champlain and three children.
This session will be recorded.
Please contact me with any questions.
Kelly Gilbert
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Coordinator, Advising Learning and Development
advising@uconn.edu
(860)486-0463
For more information, contact: Kelly Gilbert at kelly.gilbert@uconn.edu