Purpose
In its Final Report to the Chancellor, The City University of New York Black Male Initiative (CUNY BMI) Task Force listed as its first recommendation its conclusion that CUNY has a public responsibility to provide critical leadership on the challenges facing black males and to raise its voice vigorously and unwaveringly to help mobilize efforts to achieve social and educational equity. CUNY BMI represents the University’s acknowledgement of its stature as the nation’s largest urban public university and its obligation to raise societal awareness of the challenges facing underrepresented students, particularly black males, and to create concrete strategies designed to increase their chances of pursuing higher education. Through its programming, particularly the annual Conference, CUNY BMI fulfills its role of raising awareness and sharing information about the pronounced challenges that many black males face in the present society that frustrate their access to higher education. With this in mind, the CUNY BMI Conference should reach a broad audience of persons within the CUNY community and beyond.
Theme
FROM HIGH SCHOOL or G.E.D. to J.D., M.D., or Ph.D.:
EXPOSING AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK AND LATINO/HISPANIC STUDENTS
TO GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES
The Sixth Annual CUNY BMI conference, From High School or GED to J.D., M.D. or Ph.D.: Exposing African American/Black and Latino/Hispanic Students to Graduate and Professional School Opportunities, features morning, early afternoon and late afternoon keynote lectures as well as morning and afternoon panel discussions. The general theme of our morning panel discussions is Pipeline to the Professions. We hope that the morning sessions will create a foundation for our afternoon panel discussions by providing general information on the status of African American and Latino students in graduate education. Additionally, the morning panel discussions will reinforce the importance of performing well as an undergraduate as a first step to planning for graduate and/or professional school. Further, the afternoon panel discussions will offer more specific information on the professions and preparing for graduate school, law school, medical school and business school. In short, the Sixth Annual CUNY BMI conference is dedicated to exposing CUNY BMI undergraduates to post-baccalaureate opportunities and encouraging all of our students to pursue graduate education.
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1. THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BLACK MALE INITIATIVE
SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hunter College, The City University of New York
Friday, October 7, 2011
Morning Keynote Lecture
Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Host, Our World with Black Enterprise
Early Afternoon Keynote Lecture
Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D.
President, Bennett College
Late Afternoon Keynote Lecture
The Honorable Adolfo Carrion, Jr.
HUD Regional Administrator for New York and New Jersey,
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
FROM HIGH SCHOOL or G.E.D. to J.D., M.D., or Ph.D.:
EXPOSING AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK AND LATINO/HISPANIC STUDENTS TO GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES
The Sixth Annual CUNY BMI Conference will also feature the following panel discussions:
Morning Panel Discussions
1. Current Enrollment Trends of African Americans and Latinos in Graduate Education
2. Concrete Strategies to Promote the Academic Success of African American and Latino Male Collegians
3. Navigating Through College: The First Step to Graduate School, Law School or Medical School
4. College and Economic Security: Access to Higher Education as a Reentry Strategy
5. The Dropout Crisis: Why Are So Many Young Men Dropping Out of High School and College?
Afternoon Panel Discussions
6. Becoming a Lawyer: Preparing for the LSAT and the Law School Admissions Process
7. Becoming a Doctor: Preparing for the MCAT and the Medical School Admissions Process
8. Becoming a Teacher: The NYS Teacher Certification Examinations and Careers in the Classroom
9. Pathways to MBA and MPA programs
10. Widening the Doors to Academia: Pathways to Graduate Programs
11. Roundtable Discussion: Supporting African American and Latino Male Collegians
12. Becoming a Human Services Professional: Social Work, Public Health, and Public Service
Hunter College
The City University of New York (CUNY)
695 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10065
(Lexington and 68th Street)*
Friday, October 7, 2011, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
*By subway, take the # 6 train to 68th Street, Hunter College.
