Colorado State Hosts Second Annual Mcnair Conference April 5-7
Wednesday, April 2, 1997
FORT COLLINS--Colorado State University will host the second
annual Rocky Mountain McNair Graduate Education Conference and
Research Symposium April 5-7 at the Fort Collins Marriott Hotel.
The symposium will include about 150 potential graduate-school
students from ethnic minorities or low-income, first-generation
households.
The three-day conference will feature research
presentations, panel discussions, an award ceremony and keynote
speakers, including Rick Williams, a Native American educator and
storyteller from the University of Colorado. In addition to
research presentations, the conference will serve as a forum to
introduce college and community college students to graduate
education and careers that require a graduate degree. McNair
scholars from Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska
and Oklahoma will present research projects along with in-state
students.
The conference is co-sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Co. and
the McNair programs at Colorado State University, University of
Northern Colorado and University of Wyoming. The programs are
named after Dr. Ronald McNair, a shuttle astronaut who rose from
a background of poverty and segregation to obtain a doctorate
degree. His remarkable life ended in the Challenger explosion in
1986.
Currently, 99 McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement programs
across the country are funded by the U.S. Department of
Education. The programs help increase the rate of doctoral
degrees from groups underrepresented as faculty members or
researchers in those fields.
The McNair Program was initiated at Colorado State in
Oct. 1995. Since then, 33 students have been involved in the
program at the university.
For more information, call Anne Wilcox at (970) 491-3702.
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