Contact: Heather Hoy, Continuing Education, (785) 864-3978.
LAWRENCE--Panels of African-American students at the University of Kansas will join area leaders for the program of KU's 15th Annual Black Leadership Symposium, "Black Leadership for the 21st Century," Thursday, Oct. 26 in the Kansas Union.
About 500 Kansas and Missouri students in grades 9 through12 who have at least a 3.25 grade-point average in their pre-college curriculum or who are viewed as gifted with leadership potential will attend this year's symposium. Participants of the African American Male Leadership Academy, sponsored by the Village Foundation of Alexandria, Va., are included in the symposium.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. on Level 5 of the Kansas Union. At 9:45 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium, Jacob U. Gordon, executive director of KU's Center for Multicultural Leadership will introduce keynote speaker
Sheila Kinnard, a motivational speaker with the Center for Health and Wellness in Wichita.
Gordon will talk on "Black Leadership for Social Change" during the noon luncheon in the union ballroom. Gordon's speech is based on his new book published in August by Greenwood Press in Westport, Conn.
Area leaders meeting with symposium students include Barbara Ballard, KU associate vice chancellor for student affairs and a state representative for Kansas district 44, and Rod Bremby, assistant research professor and associate director of KU's Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development in the human development and family life department.
Symposium sponsors include the Office of the Provost, Center for Multicultural Leadership, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Office of Admissions, Department of African and African-American Studies, KU Continuing Education and the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
KU student panelists will speak at 1:45 p.m. in sessions meeting in Alderson Auditorium for ninth-grade students, the Kansas Room for 12th-grade students, and Woodruff Auditorium for students in grades 10 and 11. The panelists are
--SHAUNTE S. ABERNATHY, freshman planning to major in business administration and in journalism, a J.C. Harmon High School graduate and daughter of Corida Abernathy, Kansas City, Kan.;
--COURTNEY D. BATES, sophomore majoring in psychology and in human development, an Ann Arbor Pioneer High School graduate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo Bates, South Orange, N.J.
--MARINA T. BURTON, sophomore majoring in computer engineering, a Topeka High School graduate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dixon, Topeka.
--ERNEST MICHAEL CONLEY, December 1999 KU graduate in French, a Dodge City High School graduate and son of Linda Conley, Dodge City.
--HOWARD G. FRANKLIN II, freshman majoring psychology and in human development, an Olathe East High School graduate and son of Shirley Jackson, Olathe.
--ALFRED L. HARRIS, senior majoring in architecture and urban design, a Grandview, Mo., High School graduate and son of Ophelia Ledbetter, Gardner.
--CANDACE L. HARRISON, junior majoring in French and planning to major in business administration, a Shawnee Mission Northwest High School graduate and daughter of Charles and Beth Harrison, Shawnee.
--JAIME S. JONES, senior majoring in psychology, a Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park graduate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Greg Jones, Overland Park.
--ERIKA A. KENCY, freshman planning to study law and majoring in voice, a Salina High School Central graduate and daughter of Annett Smith, Salina.
--KORBALAGAE P. KUAWOGAI, freshman majoring in biology and in psychology, a Washburn Rural High School in Topeka graduate and daughter of Zaka and Vivian Kuawogai, Topeka.
--KRISTIN LAMBERT, freshman majoring in psychology and planning to study medicine, a Blue Valley Northwest High School graduate in Overland Park and daughter of Charles and Janice Lambert, Overland Park.
--ANDRE L. MCCLOYN-FORTUNE, senior majoring in communications studies, a Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., high school graduate and son of Mr. and Mrs. Andre Fortune, Kansas City, Kan.
--SHANIKA N. MCPHAULL, junior planning to major in business administration, a North High School in Omaha, Neb., graduate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin McPhaull, Omaha.
--PHILLIP MOORE, senior majoring in chemistry, a Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., graduate and son of Sharon Moore, Kansas City, Kan.
--MENNEKA J. SCOTT, junior planning to major in nursing, a Wichita High School Southeast graduate and daughter of Joe Scott, Wichita.
--SHAYLA P. STEVENS, sophomore majoring in political science, a Derby High School graduate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnie Stevens, Derby.
--CONSTANCE S. PATTON-TAYLOR, freshman, a Derby High School graduate and daughter of John and Ida Phillips, Wichita.
--VERNESHA S. THOMAS, sophomore planning to major in nursing, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School graduate and daughter of Vernestine Gipson, Shawnee.
--NICOLE M. WRIGHT, freshman planning to major in business administration, a Northeast Senior High School in Kansas City, Mo., graduate and daughter of Cheryl Wright, Kansas City, Mo
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