Award-Winning Author to Headline U of A Multiculturalism Symposium
H. Richard Milner IV
H. Richard Milner IV, a professor of urban education at the University of Pittsburgh, will be the keynote speaker for the 2014 Multiculturalism and Social Justice Symposium set for June 23-24 at the University of Arkansas.
Milner’s book, Start Where You Are But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classrooms, won the 2011 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award and the 2012 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Outstanding Book Award.
Online registration is open or you can register at the symposium. Teachers will receive six hours of professional development credit for attending the symposium sponsored by the curriculum and instruction department in the College of Education and Health Professions.
For more information, call 575-7244.
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Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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