Day One September 11, 2019 

Welcome and Opening Address: 9:30 am – 10:45 am (Beckendorf Conference Center)

"Remaking Our National Narrative: Diversity and Inclusion in the Trump Era."

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Littlejohn, Professor of History and author, Sam Houston State University                    

Interactive Stations : 11:00 am – 12:20 pm (Beckendorf Conference Center)

Students will choose to participate in several activities to explain their own perspectives and understand others about diversity and beyond.

Creation Stations: Each creation station will offer students the opportunity to express themselves.  Guiding questions they can use are: What is the biggest misunderstanding about your race?  Your gender? Your ethnicity? Your age?  What rings true to you about your race? Your gender? Your ethnicity? Your age?  What have you always wanted to ask someone of a different race? Different gender? Different ethnicity?  Different age? The stations will include:

• Artwork: Student may express their responses on a large canvass with paint.
• Writing: Students may express their responses by writing.
• Random Acts of Kindness: Students may create and take ideas for how to spread kindness.
• Free Speech Wall: Respond to a prompt.

Insight Stations: Each of these stations will provide the students with greater insight about our nation’s past, as well as present thoughts on race and beyond.  The stations will include:

• • Find Out!: Students may take the Harvard Implicit Bias quiz, learn about history, and hear from others about their experiences. 
  • One-on-One: Students will have the opportunity to interview someone one-on-one to get to know them, their experiences, and what motivates them.
  • Fishbowl issues: Students may identify an issue or question that they would like to address.
  • Kahoot!: Play a game and win a prize to see who knows their history.  
  • Virtual Reality: Tentative

Lunch and Deliberative Dialogue: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm (C 210)

Topic: TBA

Students will engage in a deliberate dialogue around a diversity related topic.

Day Two September 12, 2019

Environmental Justice: 9:30 am – 10:45 am (C 210)

Dr. Krista Hiser, Kapi'olani Community College will visit to address Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Lunch and a Movie: 11:00 am – 12:20 pm (E 100)

A movie will be shown on environmental issues.

LGBTQ Awareness: 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm (E 100)

In recognition of #Stonewall50, a discussion/activity will take place related to the LGBTQ community.

Conference hosted by the LSC-Tomball Center for Civic Engagement and the Center for Leadership Academic and Student Success