The Trustees of the CEJJES Institute are pleased to announce

MONTHLY DINNER CONVERSATIONS
WITH

PROFESSOR EDMUND W. GORDON AND SELECTED SCHOLARS

at the Edmund W. Gordon Library of the CEJJES INSTITUTE
1003 North Route #45 in Pomona, New York 10970.

6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Seating is limited!!! Attendance is by Reservation Only.

Schedule

March 30, 2011
Identity Orchestration and The Black Male with Professor David Wall Rice

David Wall Rice is currently a professor of psychology at Morehouse College where he leads the Identity Orchestration Research Lab, a strengths-based lab that works to understand and to elicit behavioral bests. This emphasis on positives is an approach that frames David's work beyond the academy. As a trained journalist and research scientist, David writes and speaks extensively on youth culture, music culture, media, politics, psychology and faith. He counts among his greatest achievements his consistent work with and for people from places of affirmation. "I appreciate and respect the access that starting from positive spaces can yield," says Rice. "This doesn't mean that we ignore the negatives, it means that we begin with a positive to get a positive.

February 23, 2011
Learning to Think like W. E. B. Du Bois(143rd Birthday Celebration) with Professor David Lucander

W.E.B. Du Bois is recognized as one of the premier scholars born and educated in the Western western Hemisphere. Du Bois was a mentor of Professor Gordon and a model for much of the intellectual activity that is associated with The CEJJES Institute. Professor David Lucander will exchange ideas concerning the approach of W.E.B. Du Bois ' approach to both scholarship and social action.

January 26, 2011
The Moral Development of Children with Professor Ernest Washington

Professor Washington will join us in a conversation about how children develop a sense of right and wrong. He and others have been exploring the bio-social origins of moral behavior, as well the genesis of moral behavior in the cultural forms to which children are exposed. Moral development does not just happen. Sometimes referred to as "character education,much of what happens at The CEJJES Institute by implication falls into this domain. We study our culture and our history not simply to celebrate these achievements but to learn about how our people have struggled through history to be both human and humane beings.

December 16, 2010
Public Health a Model for Public Education with Howard Goldstein, M.D. and Clement Osei, M.D

The Rockland County Commissioner of Public Health Joan H. Facelle, MD, and other specialists in health provision will engage in a conversation to discuss possible strategies in education that could be modeled on successful practices in public health and health maintenance. We know that the nation's health does not depend primarily on the goodness of its hospitals nor upon the quality of available medical treatment. The health of the people of the nation is in part based on the nutritional and exercise habits of the people; on the adequacy with which we dispose of sewage and garbage; our avoidance of airborne pollutants; and the availability of potable water. Health maintenance and the health of the population are based on the quality of available conditions of life and the relevant attitudes and behaviors of the persons in whom we seek to enable good health. Can it be that the effectiveness of public education is symbiotic with access to education relevant conditions of life and the attitudes and behaviors of learners?

November 17, 2010
Cooperative Community Economic Development with Professor Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Professor Nembhard will share her experience studying cooperative enterprises in the US and abroad. This is a model in which consumers cooperate in the purchase of food or commodities oftentimes owning the sources of production and/or the means for the exchange of products. In the case of human services, the workers own the agencies that broker such services. In challenging economic times and especially for marginalized communities, cooperative enterprises are proposed as a viable alternative to capitalist corporate models.

October 1, 2010
The Education of Black Boys with Professor Edmund T. Gordon

Dates to be announced

April, 2011 A Pedagogical Troika: Teaching, Learning and Assessment

with Professors Carol Bonilla Bowman & Eleanor Armour Thomas

May, 2011 African Migrations: Disparate Diasporas with Professor Edmund T. Gordon