Monday, October 24, 2016

Venue: Bicknell Family Center for the Arts

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5:30 – 6:30 pm
Conference Registration - Lobby Area
Reception - Dean Family VIP Room

6:15 pm
Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana and Deatrea Rose, Conference Planning Committee Co-chairs, Pittsburg State University
Linda & Lee Scott Performance Hall  

7:00 pm
Welcome and Introduction of the Featured Speaker
Dr. Steve Scott, President, Pittsburg State University

“The Struggle is Real: Staying Right Side Up When Things Are Turned Upside Down”
Dr. Marche Fleming - Randle                            
Assistant to the President for Diversity and Senior Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wichita State University

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Venue: Overman Student Center

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8:00 – 9:00 am 
Registration and Breakfast
C&G Lounge

9:00 – 9:30 am 
Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana and Deatrea Rose, Conference Planning Committee Co-chairs
C&G Ballroom

Provost's Welcome
Dr. Lynette Olson, Provost of Pittsburg State University

Tilford Conference Retrospective
Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana, Conference Planning Committee Member

9:30 – 11:00 am 
Introduction of the Featured Presenter
Deatrea Rose, Conference Planning Committee Member

Featured Presentation
Cultivating Success: Why Belonging Really Matters                
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn
The Ohio State University

11:00 – 11:10 am 
Break

11:10 – 12:00 pm 
Workshops

Meadowlark    
Institutional Acceptance and Legitimacy: The Twice-Annual, Campus-wide Cultural (Competence Training at Butler Community College
Crystal Aluko, Cory Teubner, Andy Jones, and Donnie Featherstone: Butler Community College

Kansas 1    
Engaging the Engine: Establishing Inclusive Teaching with New Teaching Assistants 
Darren DeFrain: Wichita State University

Kansas 2    
Thinking Outside the University: Shared Curriculum Programs for Increased Baccalaureate Degree Attainment
Pamila Barnes, PhD: KU School of Nursing

Kansas 3    
Teaming for Diversity: Using team-based models and practices to advance organizational diversity and inclusion goals
Jennifer D. Keeton, EdD and W. Todd Moore, MPS: KU Medical Center

Kansas 4    
Using Student Survey Data to Create an Inclusive University Environment 
Catherine Ayantoye, PhD and Marla Darby: Emporia State University

Sunflower    
Teachable Moments: Strategies for Responding to Student Bias 
Sandra Cox, PhD and James Greene, PhD: Pittsburg State University 

Governors    
The Emporia State Imperative: a Transformation of Inclusion
Robert N. Page Jr.: Metropolitan Community College 

Cottonwood    
Student Growth from Service Learning: Increasing Persistence in First-Generation College Students
Lisa Stoothoff: Donnelly College 

Prairie 
Onboarding Underrepresented Students at the University of Kansas – Hawk Link and Multicultural Scholars Program
Lindsey Deaver, M.S.E.: University of Kansas

12:00 – 1:00 pm 
Luncheon
C&G Ballroom

1:00 – 1:50 pm
Workshops Repeated - Round 2

1:50 – 2:00 pm 
Break

2:00 – 2:50 pm 
Plenary Session
C&G Ballroom
Cultivating Success, Navigating Culture: 3 Key Insights                
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn
The Ohio State University

2:50 – 3:00 pm 
Break

3:00 – 3:30 pm 
Institutional Focus Groups

Kansas 1 - Emporia State University
Kansas 2 - Fort Hays State University
Kansas 3 - Kansas State University
Kansas 4 - University of Kansas 
Balkans - University of Kansas Medical Center
Sunflower - Pittsburg State University    
Sunset A - Washburn University         
Prairie - Wichita State University
Meadowlark - Community Colleges

3:30 – 3:40 pm 
Break

3:40 – 4:00 pm 
Closing Session
C&G Ballroom
Dr. Ananda Jayawardhana
Dr. Lynette Olson

Workshop Descriptions

Institutional Acceptance and Legitimacy: The Twice-Annual, Campus-wide Cultural Competence Training at Butler Community College

Crystal Aluko, Academic Success Coach/Coordinator of Tutoring, Cory Teubner, Associate Professor, English/Personal Development Chair, Andy Jones, Associate Professor, English, and Donnie Featherston, Associate Professor, Religion and Philosophy

Butler Community College implemented a twice-annual, campus-wide Cultural Competence Training beginning in Spring 2016. This workshop will describe the training designed and implemented by Butler’s Inclusion Council; identify obstacles and successes encountered in pursuit of administrator, faculty, and staff buy-in; and model how other schools may learn from our success.

Engaging the Engine: Establishing Inclusive Teaching with New Teaching Assistants

Darren DeFrain, University Director of the Writing Program, Wichita State University

This workshop will focus on the challenges and importance of inculcating graduate teaching assistants with a strong understanding as to why diversity and multiculturalism are integral and essential. The workshop will include practical approaches to help graduate students understand and deal with the challenges of the contemporary classroom and to better understand how these efforts support improved student performance.

Thinking Outside the University: Shared Curriculum Programs for Increased Baccalaureate Degree Attainment

Pamela Barnes, PhD is an Associate Dean for Student Affairs and a Research Assistant Professor at the KU School of Nursing

Early results of the KU-Community College Nursing Partnership program signifies potential for increased baccalaureate degree attainment by under-represented student groups. The program’s development is explained followed by exercises for exploring university-community college partnership opportunities benefiting diverse student populations within the State’s community colleges.

Teaming for Diversity: Using team-based models and practices to advance organizational diversity and inclusion goals

Jennifer D. Keeton, EdD, Director of Special Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Kansas Medical Center and W. Todd Moore, MPS, Project Director of Community Partnership for Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center

Learn about how cultivating a team mindset and behavioral practices can help advance your institutions goals to increase diversity and build a more inclusive climate. Through an interactive format, presenters will share the approach based on structured, action-oriented teams as well as “teamwork on the fly” to help overcome perennial hurdles.

Using Student Survey Data to Create an Inclusive University Environment 

Catherine Ayantoye, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Emporia State University and Marla Darby, an Instructor of Special Education at Emporia State University.

This presentation’s two objectives are to first, share the process and outcomes of the inclusion survey given in ESU’s Teacher’s College, and second to have attendees and presenters share ideas and strategies that can be implemented to build campus communities where everyone feels a strong sense of belonging.

Teachable Moments: Strategies for Responding to Student Bias

Sandra Cox, PhD and James Greene, PhD Assistant Professors of English at Pittsburg State University

This workshop provides strategies for responding productively to expressions of social bias by students. The workshop will share contemporary research on the topic and then encourage conference attendees to discuss how they would respond to a series of hypothetical scenarios involving student biases.

The Emporia State Imperative: a Transformation of Inclusion

Robert N. Page Jr., Executive Director of Inclusion and Engagement, at the Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City

With an ever changing diverse global society and increased issues around institutional inequities, colleges and institutions of higher learning will need to evaluate their practices related to campus climate, diversity and inclusion issues and institutional initiatives that support campus inclusion and engagement. Under the direction of the Diversity and Inclusion Alliance and campus leadership, Emporia State University embarked on an comprehensive process to infuse inclusion throughout the entire university supporting students success. This model will be outlined in this interactive and engaging session.

Student Growth from Service Learning: Increasing Persistence in First-Generation College Students

Lisa Stoothoff, Director of Developmental Education at Donnelly College

The primary purpose of this 50 minute workshop is to provide pedagogy and research-based strategies when choosing a service learning project for first-generation college students. Participants will view components of service- learning and tailor a framework for their own student population.

Onboarding Underrepresented Students at the University of Kansas – Hawk Link and Multicultural Scholars Program

Lindsey Deaver, M.S.E., Director of the First Two Years in the Multicultural Scholars at University of Kansas.

The challenges of navigating college life can be greater for first generation, low income, and other students from underrepresented backgrounds. At KU, we have worked to reduce the stress and isolation of students in Hawk Link and MSP by developing hands-on onboarding programs. Our interactive workshop will share our onboarding programs and give the audience a chance to walk through students’ experiences with different onboarding programs.

Monday Night Featured Presenter

Dr. Marché Fleming-Randle is a senior assistant dean for the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and assistant to the president for diversity. She is the college liaison for student services planning and implementation, encompassing undergraduate recruitment activity, the enrollment process, and matriculation to degree completion. She consults with faculty and students on academic issues, including administrative withdrawal, coordinating the representation of the college at admissions programs, representing the college with Kansas community colleges, and analyzing student data. She is also an Ethnic Studies lecturer. Her research and academic interests include mental health, substance abuse, child and youth programs, educational leadership, and diversity. She is an author, motivational speaker and public intellectual.

Dr. Fleming-Randle has  received a number of awards and honors for her efforts in diversity. She is a Fellow of WSU's Leadership Academy and was recognized in 2013 with a Unity Award for her commitment to diversity at Wichita State University.

Her publications include The Gumbo Analysis of Diversity Handbook; The Bold, Black and Beautiful; The Dreams Kings are Made of; and the Dr. Martin Luther King Handbook and many articles.

Dr. Fleming-Randle’s hobbies include listening to her favorite musician, Prince; bowling with friends; reading an enlightening book; talking with her father, James Sr., about social issues; and spending quality time with her husband, Aron, and her only sibling, James Jr. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

Tuesday Featured Speaker

Dr. Terrell Lamont Strayhorn is Director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise at  Ohio State University, where he is also Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies within the College of Education and Human Ecology. Dr. Strayhorn is faculty affliate in the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, the Todd A. Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male, the Criminal Justice Research Center, and Penn GSE Center for MSIs. He has faculty appointments in the Ohio State John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Department of African American and African Studies, and Education Policy, Engineering Education, and Sexuality Studies programs. Professor Strayhorn maintains an active and highly visible research agenda focusing on major policy issues in education: student access and achievement, equity and diversity, impact of college on students, and student learning and development.

An acclaimed higher education researcher and policy analyst, Dr. Strayhorn has authored 8 books and monographs including Evolving Challenges of Black College Students (Stylus Publishing, 2010), College Students’ Sense of Belonging (Routledge, 2012), and theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research (Rowman & Littlefeld, 2013); over 50 book chapters; and more than 100 refereed journal articles, reviews, and scientific reports. Named “one of the most highly visible new scholars in his field,” by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Dr. Strayhorn has received numerous national awards and honors, including the ASHE Early Career/Promising Scholar Award, ACPA Annuit Coeptis Award, among others. Diverse Issues in Higher Education named him one of the nation’s Top 12 Diversity Scholars, BusinessFirst Magazine named him one of the “Top 20 to Know in Education,” and he was named an ACPA Diamond Honoree in 2014.

Venue

Bicknell Family Center for the Arts

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Hotel

Comfort Inn and Suites
(620) 231-8800
$83.00 (state rate) tax Exempt
Reservations should be made by October 19th.

Statewide Planning Committee

Susan Bradley, Butler CC
Crystal Jackson Aluko, Butler CC          
Jason Brooks, ESU
Marla Darby, ESU
Sheryl Lidzy, ESU
Kathryn McGonigal, FHSU
Star Trisconnia, JCCC
Zelia Wiley, KSU
Madai Rivera, KSU
E Nathan Thomas III, KU
Mike Werle, KUMC
Jennifer Keeton, KUMC
Todd Moore, KUMC
Bryronni Ferguson, PSU
Deatrea Rose, PSU
Ananda Jayawardhana, PSU
Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas, Washburn
Patricia Dahl, Washburn
Jean Griffith, WSU
Alicia Sanchez, WSU

The 2016 Onsite Planning Committee:

Jeff Burns
Bryronni Ferguson
Jay Hodges
Ananda Jayawardhana
Gregor Kalan
Deatrea Rose

Tilford Emeritus Members of the Statewide Planning Committee

Dr. Joe Bast, member 1994-2011 
Dr. Juanita McGowan, member 1997-2012 
Dr. Myra Gordon, member 2003-2015

Past Conferences

2015 Tilford Conference - Pittsburg State University - October 19-20, 2015

2014 Tilford Conference - Emporia State University - October 20-21, 2014
     
2013 Tilford Conference - Emporia State University - October 21-22, 2013

2012 Tilford Conference - Kansas State University - October 29-30, 2012

2011 Tilford Conference - Kansas State University - October 24-25, 2011

2010 Tilford Conference - University of Kansas - October 12, 2010

2009 Tilford Conference - University of Kansas - October 5-6, 2009

2008 Tilford Conference - Wichita State University - October 2-3, 2008

2007 Tilford Conference - Wichita State University - October 4-5, 2007

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