Educational Equity Expert Gives Free Public Lecture at USM
March 4, 2004
Peggy McIntosh, an internationally recognized educator, consultant,
and author, will give a free public lecture at 4:30 p.m.,
Thursday, March 11, in Room 301 of Bailey Hall, on USM's Gorham
campus.
The lecture, titled "Feeling Like a Fraud," is part of her
spring visit to USM's College of Education and Human Development,
where she is serving as a Visiting Libra Scholar.
The associate director of the Wellesley College Center for
Research on Women, McIntosh has earned an international reputation
for her examination of power and privilege as they play out
in educational settings. She is founder and co-director of
the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity
Project on Inclusive Curriculum), which helps teachers create
year-long, school-based seminars to help their schools, curricula,
and teaching methods become more gender fair and multi-culturally
equitable.
"We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. McIntosh visit USM,"
said Betty Lou Whitford, dean and professor at USM's College
of Education and Human Development. "Her scholarship on the
effects of privilege on education is seminal. Moreover, she
has extensive experience in using scholarship to help others
examine curriculum, teaching, and learning to uncover the
ways in which we often unwittingly are undermined by our lack
of attention to differences."
The Libra Professorships were established in 1989 to attract
nationally known scholars to System campuses. The Professorships
are endowed by a gift of $5 million to the University of Maine
System by the late Elizabeth B. Noyce.
For more information, call Kim Warren at (207) 780-5902,
or visit www.usm.maine.edu/cehd/Peggy_McIntosh.htm.
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