The Challenge of Providing Access
2023-04-26 12:00
2023-04-26 13:00
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Penn GSE Event: The Challenge of Providing Access
Join us for a free webinar with 2022 McGraw Prize winner in Higher Education Dr. Barry Dunn (President of South Dakota State University) whose strategic leadership and innovative work to expand higher education access for Native American communities has set a course for change at the national level. Dunn will argue that there is a moral imperative for both public and private institutions to provide access to the benefits of higher education to the indigenous people of the United States and, to be successful, institutions must take a uniquely holistic approach to student success beyond free tuition or large renewable scholarships.
Public universities have a pragmatic responsibility to provide access to the benefits of higher education to the indigenous people of the United States. Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, April 26 at 12:00 p.m. ET with McGraw Prize winner in Higher Education Dr. Barry Dunn (President of South Dakota State University) whose strategic leadership and innovative work to expand higher education access for Native American communities has set a course for change at the national level.
In this discussion moderated by Dr. Amalia Z. Daché, Associate Professor of Higher Education at Penn GSE, Dunn will argue that there is a moral imperative for both public and private institutions to expand access, and, to be successful, institutions must take a uniquely holistic approach to student success beyond free tuition or large renewable scholarships.
Dr. Barry Dunn Bio:
Barry Dunn’s work to improve college access for Native Americans exemplifies the democratic principle of equity and the belief in the power of education to elevate human potential, two core principles of the McGraw Prize. Dunn is president of South Dakota State University, where he created the Wokini Initiative to increase programming and support for students from South Dakota’s nine tribal nations. He was also instrumental in advocating for a new federally funded grant program for tribal students at 22 land grant universities and tribal universities.
Dr. Amalia Daché Bio:
Amalia Daché is an Afro-Cuban American scholar and associate professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her experiences as a 1980s Mariel boatlift refugee and student navigating U.S. inner-city schools, community college, state college, and a private research-intensive university contribute to her lines of inquiry. Dr. Daché’s major research areas are postcolonial geographic contexts of higher education, Afro-Latina/o/x studies, community and student resistance, and the college-access experiences of African diasporic students and communities.
Event Contact
Jane Kuntzjkuntz@upenn.edu