ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/10/2014)(readMedia)-- POSTPONED

Dr. Daryl G. Smith, professor of education and psychology at Claremont (Calif.) Graduate University, is this year's Martin Luther King Jr. keynote speaker at Elizabethtown College. Smith will address "Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making it Work" at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the College's Gibble Auditorium. The talk, sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee, is free.

Smith is the author of the book "Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making it Work." She was the co-principle investigator for a major project with the James Irvine Foundation, part of which evaluated the impact of the Campus Diversity Initiative. The six-year $29 million effort involved 28 private colleges and universities in California that were aiming to increase access and success of historically underrepresented students. The initiative intended to build institutional capacity to develop and evaluate diversity efforts.

You can read more about Davis at http://www.cgu.edu/pages/938.asp.

Contact: Diane Elliott at elliottd@etown.edu or 717-361-1198

Elizabethtown College, located in historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Learn more: http://www.etown.edu/about/

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Posted Friday January 10, 2014 at 06:01 am by Elizabethtown College
Last Updated Tuesday January 21, 2014 at 02:19 pm