Ed School to Host National Meeting Of Black Educators

The Center for Urban Studies at the Graduate School of Education has invited administrators and faculty members from many of the nation's 88 predominantly black colleges to a four day conference on "Black Education and the Education of Blacks."

The purpose of the conference is to lay a foundation for continued academic research into the educational needs of black students, teaching methods at black colleges, and the effects of racism perceptions of black education in America.

The conference, organized by Charles Willie, Professor of Education and Urban Studies, will feature panel discussions and talks. The conference will be held March 18-19 and April 22-23.

Ronald R. Edmonds, director of the Center for Urban Studies, and one of the organizers of the conference, said that holding the conference at Harvard is of great symbolic importance. "The most invidious maligning of the character of black higher education has been done here at Harvard," he commented.

Willie said he expects the papers submitted at the conference, as well as the substance of the scheduled discussions, to form the nucleus of a book on the subject of black higher education to be published next year.

All conference events will be free and open to the public and will be held at the Gutman Library of the Graduate School of Education.