8:30

9:00

Registration and Breakfast

9:00

10:15

Opening Remarks

Keynote Address:

    Affirming Diversity: Core Agreements for Refashioning Teaching, Learning and Student Development

Laura I. Rendón

10:30

11:45

Debating Diversity

Defining Diversity within Deaf culture

Sharing Stories Making Connections: Creating awareness of cultural differences 

Mixed Loyalties: Ambassadors and tourists since the Italian Renaissance

Diversity is More Than Skin     Deep       

12:00

12:45

Diversifying Mainstream Representations of Romantic Love

Hey! Do I really look like that?:  Media influences on the acceptance of GLBT communities

 Diversifying the Melting Pot

Using Children’s Literature to Teach Awareness and Acceptance of Disabilities

1:00

Lunch

(Potomac)

2:15

3:00

Concurrent Roundtable Discussions

1.  Exploring Institutional LGBT Ally Status at Towson University

2.  Supporting the Social Integration of African American Students at Towson University

3.  Trans Inclusion and the ENDA Debate

4.  Exploring Personality Differences: How does personality fit with our definitions of diversity?

5.  Integrating International Students into the Towson Community

6.  Are Rural Populations a Unique Culture?

7.  Not a Problem Anymore? HAVE we resolved issues related to gender diversity, religious   

    diversity and age diversity on campus?

8.  Do Attachment and Relationship Styles Influence Attitudes toward Sexual Minorities?

4:00

Concurrent Roundtable Discussions

1. The Construction Of Self In The Journeys Of First Generation College Students

2. Promoting Multiculturalism as a Means of Enhancing Campus Community

3. The Unification of Diversity, The Nature of Things

4. Between Two Worlds: The portrayal of immigrants in young adult fiction

5. Diverse Health Beliefs: Broadening students' perspectives through a study abroad   

    experience

6. Practical Strategies for Gaining Benefits from Diversity in the Classroom

7. Getting to Know International Students' Cultures

8. Diversifying A Historically Black Peer Mentoring Program at a Predominantly White

    Institution: Lessons learned