Noted multicultural educator to lecture at Vassar College, April 2

Dr. Carl A. Grant, professor, author, and advocate for multicultural education, will give a lecture entitled "Oppression, Privilege, and High Stakes Testing" on Wednesday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. in the Villard Room, Main Building, at Vassar College.

A former classroom teacher and administrator in the Chicago public schools, Grant is currently chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Grant was president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) from 1993-1999, editor of the "Review of Educational Research" from 1996-1999, and a member of the National Research Council Committee on Assessment and Teacher Quality from 1999-2001. In 2001, he received the G. Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator Award from NAME and the Angela Davis Race, Gender and Class Award from the Race, Gender and Class Project.

Grant's publications include "An Education Guide to Diversity in the Classroom" (2003), "Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender" (2003, 4th edition), "Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability" (2003, 3rd edition), and "Global Construction of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities" (with Joy Lei, 2001).

Grant's lecture, the biennial Elaine Lipschutz Lecture on Multicultural Issues, is sponsored by the Department of Education at Vassar with financial support from the Arlington and Poughkeepsie school districts, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the Programs in American Culture, Africana Studies, and Urban Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Vassar College Urban Education Initiative.

For more information, call the Vassar College Department of Education at (845) 437-7360. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Cathy Jennings, Office of Campus Activities, (845) 437-5370, as far in advance as possible to request reasonable and appropriate accommodations for the event.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

This article was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003.