Nursing Education
Examining Diversity: An Intellectual Adventure
June 16-18, 2008
Gideon Putnam Resort, Saratoga Springs, NY
For three days, nurses from throughout New York will converge on Saratoga Springs, to immerse themselves in an intellectual party designed to explore diversity, social justice, and the inseparable linkages between these two complex notions. With offerings ranging from the Diversity Enlightenment session to actually being submerged in two days of an abbreviated slice of the Examining Diversity through Film course, the workshop's participants will have an opportunity to not only consider their reality, but the reality of others, within the context of the participants actions towards and in response to others. Participants will leave this experience with a more profound knowledge of not only diversity, social justice, but also the multiple identities we all have but often, unfortunately, don’t consider. Participants will as well come to understand their ongoing roles as both dominants and oppressed, culminating with a invigorating understanding of their potential as agents of change.
Objectives
- To introduce the notions of diversity and social justice as significant to all, not some
- To frame leadership as unavoidable within the context of social justice
- To explore cultural difference in contemporary pluralistic society
- To develop critical analysis skills, particularly in examining how societal differences (ability, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class) operate as socially constructed systems of differentiation and power that shape society and the individual
- To examine how xenophobia affects our functioning in society
- To introduce the distinction and relationship between individual prejudice and institutional bias
- To analyze the relationship between privilege, power, and disenfranchisement
- To explore the value of diversity and social justice in society
- To examine related issues of social justice and individual responsibility in creating a just society
Agenda
| Monday - June 16, 2008 | |
1:00 – 1:45 PM |
Welcome, Introductions, Expectations |
1:45 – 3:15 PM |
Diversity Enlightenment |
3:15 – 3:30 PM |
Break |
3:30 – 5:00 PM |
Examining Diversity Through Film (Introduction) |
5:00 PM |
Homework |
6:00 - 7:30 PM |
Networking Dinner (included with full registration) |
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | |
7:30 - 8:45 AM |
Breakfast (included with registration) |
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM | Examining Diversity Through Film (Ability, Part 1) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM– 1:00 PM | Examining Diversity Through Film (Ability, Part 2) |
| 1:00 PM | Homework |
1:00 PM |
Lunch (included with registration) |
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | |
7:30 - 8:45 AM |
Breakfast (included with registration) |
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM | Examining Diversity Through Film (Race, Part 1) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Examining Diversity Through Film (Race, Part 2) |
| 12:15 – 1:00 PM | Lessons Learned? |
1:00 PM |
Lunch (included with registration) |
About the Presenter
J.W. Wiley is Director of the Center for Diversity, Pluralism and Inclusion, and a lecturer in philosophy and minority studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. A prolific writer and presenter, he is the author of a chapter on “Retaining African American Administrators: A Subconscious Deluge of Neglect, or Conscious Subterfuge to Reject” in the book “Retaining African Americans in Higher Education.” He has been a presenter at the Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, and at the New York State Nurses Association Annual Convention.
Additional Information/Contact Hours
Registration Fees
Registration for Examining Diversity is $395. for NYSNA members, $455. for non-members. Full registration fees include all breaks, networking dinner on June 16, breakfast and lunch on June 17 and 18, and all course materials. Daily registrations include breaks, meals (except Monday, June 16 dinner) and course materials for that day. Registration fees do not include hotel accommodations; you must contact the Gideon Putnam Resort directly.
Contact Hours
The New York State Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. A total of 11.5 contact hours will be awarded to participants completing the entire three day workshop; partial contact hours are awarded for daily attendance.
Please note: In order to receive contact hours, participants are required to attend the entire session and complete an evaluation.
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hotel Information
This workshop is being held at the Gideon Putnam Resort in historic Saratoga Springs, NY. The hotel is located in a 2,000 acre state park and is reminiscent of the Georgian Era. For more information about the conference site and activities within the site, please visit the Gideon Putnam Resort online.
To receive the group discounted rate of $168.37 (standard room) or $224.87 (suite), please call 800.732.1560 or 518.584.3000 and use the code “Nurses Association”. These rates are per day, single or double occupancy and include a 13% tax.
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Cancellation Policy
All cancellation/refund requests must be received in writing. An administrative fee will be deducted from refunds for all cancellations made after June 9, 2008. The cost of meals will also be deducted for any cancellation made less than 72 hours prior to the beginning of this workshop. NYSNA reserves the right to cancel this workshop if a sufficient number of participants are not registered by May 12, 2008.
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For more information about the conference site, visit the Gideon Putnam Resort online