College of Education Presents 11th Graduate Student Colloquium March 11

Proposals due Feb. 18

The 11th Annual College of Education Graduate Student Colloquium will be held on Tuesday, March 11, in the Student Union Building. Students will present their work 1-6 p.m., followed by a banquet dinner and keynote speech by Manulani Aluli Meyer, associate professor of education at the University of Hawaii-Hilo.

Associate Dean Betsy Noll founded the colloquium 11 years ago as an opportunity for COE graduate students to share their research, ideas and projects, and to receive feedback from peers and faculty. Last year, the event included more than 65 presentations and 90 student presenters. The event is sponsored by the COE Dean’s Office, the Office of Graduate Studies, and the Office of the Provost, along with several COE graduate student associations.

For the keynote, Manulani Aluli Meyer will present “The Integrity of Joy: Indigenous Epistemology, Research and the Changing Face of Academia.” Meyer earned her doctorate from Harvard University researching Hawaiian epistemology, or an indigenous philosophy of knowledge.

She is a founding member of Halau Wanana, a Hawaiian Center of Higher Learning preparing teachers for licensure in the Hawaiian charter school movement. Her book, “Ho`oulu: Our Time of Becoming,” is in its second printing. She is a stone carver and enjoys all aspects of water.

Students may present research, professional practice and creative projects in four formats: individual presentation, group presentation, roundtable discussion, and poster session. Proposals are due by Monday, Feb. 18.

For more information, contact Bonnie Leigh Reifsteck at 277-2254 or bonniec@unm.edu.