Increasing Academic Outcomes for Black Caribbean Students: An Interactive Workshop

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 1:00pm

What:  Human Rights & Diversity Speaker Series - Increasing Academic Outcomes for Black Caribbean Students: An Interactive Workshop
When:  Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012
Time:  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Refreshments served at 12:30 p.m.
Where:  B 308, North Campus
For:  All interested Humber employees

To register, please email nancy.simms@humber.ca

Dr. Craig James, faculty member and director of the Centre for Education & Community at York University will be presenting.

Workshop participants will learn strategies to:

  • tap into and maximize the diversity within the black student body to enrich academic success
  • increase students' ownershipof and engagement in their learning by leveraging the high expectations that black communities have of their youth