April 9, 2003
Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Street (509-963-2153/fax 509-963-3206/e-mail: streetl@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Dr. Geneva Gay, nationally and
internationally recognized for her scholarship in multicultural
education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, classroom
instruction, and the intersections of culture, ethnicity and learning,
will deliver the next Central Washington University Presidential
Speaker Series lecture.
Her free, public presentation, titled “Achieving Educational
Excellence and Equity for Racial and Cultural Diversity,” is slated for
Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the Samuelson Union Building (SUB)
Ballroom. Seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis,
with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m.
CWU President Jerilyn S. McIntyre established the
Presidential Speaker Series to provide an additional source of
intellectual stimulation on the campus and a forum for collegiate
discourse.
“Dr. Gay is highly respected for her research and teaching in
the areas of curriculum theory, African-American culture and
multicultural education,” McIntyre says. “I invite our students,
faculty and staff, as well as members of the community to join us at
this event.”
Gay serves as both a member of the curriculum and instruction
department and as a faculty associate at the Center for Multicultural
Education at the University of Washington.
She received the 1990 Distinguished Scholar Award, presented
by the Committee on the Role and Status of Minorities in Educational
Research and Development of the American Educational Research
Association. In 1994, she was honored with the Multicultural Educator
Award, the first to be presented by the National Association of
Multicultural Education, and the Ann Baker Award, “In honor of her
distinctive leadership, scholarship, and service to women.”
Gay has contributed to numerous journals and books, including
“Teaching Ethnic Studies: Concepts and Strategies,” “Language and
Cultural Diversity in American Education: Curriculum Guidelines for
Multicultural Education,” and the “Handbook of Research on
Multicultural Education.”
In addition, she is co-editor of “Expressively Black: The
Cultural Basis of Ethnic Identity” and author of “At the Essence of
Learning: Multicultural Education.” Her most recent book is the 2000
work “Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice.”
Her professional service includes membership on several
national editorial review and advisory boards.
She has also held international conferences on multicultural education
in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Japan, Scotland and
Taiwan.
Gay’s appearance is part of a yearlong focus on diversity and
multiculturalism on CWU’s Ellensburg campus. For more information
about the presentation, or for persons of disability to arrange for
reasonable accommodation, call 509-963-2111, or (for the hearing
impaired) TDD 509-963-2143.
Prior to her public address, Gay will conduct a CWU faculty
development workshop titled “Strategies for Culturally Responsive
Teaching” from 2 to 4 p.m. in Grupe Center. Interested faculty and
staff are encouraged to reserve a space by calling (509) 963-3101.
