1. Black Public Intellectuals: A Better Model for the Whole Scholar
Dr. Lennie Amores
Essence Hall

3. What does it take to engage black students in college?

4. Is scholarship a “white” pursuit?
scholarship: learning at a high level

5. “You gotta put on your ‘white coat’ and hope no one says anything to make you mad”
-A student during “The Black Experience” event at Albright College

6. Community Partnerships
Marc Lamont Hill
bell hooks
Imani Perry
Cornel West
Urban Education
Intellectual Activists
Feminism
African American Studies
Philosophy
How do you make connections with the organizations that will give your students opportunities? In our case, we applied for and was awarded a 10K grant to create programs that bridge the community and students. For example...

7. Scholars produce new knowledge.
From theory to practice
Scholarship as storytelling
In the town, not from the tower
Scholars produce new knowledge.

8. Activism and Scholarship
Engagement

9. Engagement
Classroom Affect +
Learning Styles

10. “to bind by a contract or formal promise”
-The Oxford English Dictionary (1525 edition)

11. EVERYDAY LIFE: INTERSECTIONALITY
Definitions for each.

12. - Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District
Classroom Affect
According to Models of Classroom Management, classroom management is “those activities of classroom teachers that create a positive classroom environment within which effective teaching and learning can occur” (Martin and Sugarman p.9, 1993).
Knowledge
Create Conversation
Support
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District
In NC, Chapel Hill-Carrabo City schools district decided to fight low test grades in the minority student by having someone mentor them in their community to possibly pull out their potential. They engage by going to sports events, movies, and museums (KQED). In Student SIx, the student is able to teach their teachers about “race sensitivity”. (KQED)
Be visible
Safe space
Connections to student lives
Culture
Address race in classroom
Connect to future selves

14. “Cultures do have distinctive learning style patterns, but the great variation among individuals within groups means that educators must use diverse teaching strategies with all students.”
- Pat Guild, “The Culture/Learning Style Connection”

15. Learning Styles Oral Experiences Physical Activity
individual learning differences beyond generalizations
Loyalty in interpersonal relationships