Patton College to host Black Lives Matter panel discussion on Sept. 14

The Patton College of Education is featuring the second panel discussion in its new Black Lives Matter Series. The Black Male Experience: Academic and Professional Worlds session will be held on Monday, Sept. 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

The session begins by establishing the definitions of racism and anti-racism. The panel is composed of African American males who will share challenges and strategies in navigating their professional lives. The panel will also discuss anti-racist behaviors they would have valued to help them succeed rather than block their academic and professional trajectory.

The panel features Dr. Robert Murphy, Patton College alumnus and administrator of Columbus City Schools; Dr. Jason Rawls, Patton College alumnus and resource coordinator at Columbus City Schools; Lindsey Ladd, director, Patton College Data Analytics and Academic Technology Center; Marcquis Parham, CLDC’s assistant director of career and leadership development; and Dr. Akil Houston, associate professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. The moderator is Dr. Duane Bruce, interim assistant director of Multicultural Programs & Multicultural Center. And the converser is Dr. Beth VanDerveer, chair of The Patton College’s Human and Consumer Sciences Department.

Take-aways include:

• Develop teaching, curriculum, research and creative activities, and service/outreach that expose students to diverse cultural perspectives.
• Expose students and faculty to different ways of seeing the world, different points of view, and different assumptions about how the world operates.
• Adapt and integrate innovations by developing and executing practice-based inquiry.
• Remain current and relevant by responding to internal and external environmental changes.

This series is open to Ohio University and the community and will be hosted on Microsoft Teams Live. It will be recorded for those who cannot participate live and posted on The Patton College’s YouTube channel.

Click here to join the discussion at noon on Sept. 14.

This session is sponsored by The Patton College Strategic Work Group: Academic Excellence.