Spelman's Tatum to speak on 'Diversity, Democracy, Leadership'

8:23 a.m., Nov. 5, 2013--Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College in Atlanta, will deliver the annual Distinguished Lecture on Diversity in Higher Education at 4 p.m., Tuesday Nov. 12, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.

Tatum, a widely recognized leader, writer, and race relations expert, will speak on “Diversity, Democracy, and Leadership: Education for the 21st Century.” 

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The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed at 5 p.m. by a reception and book signing in the lobby of the Roselle Center for the Arts.

When Tatum became president of Spelman College 13 years ago, she set the expectation that the institution would be renowned as a top liberal arts college in the country – “a place where young women of African descent could say, ‘This place was built for me and it is nothing less than the best!’”

Her best-selling titles include Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (2007) and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (1997). She is also the author of Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community (1987).

For more information about her talk, see the flyer in PDF format at this link. 

The annual Distinguished Lecture on Diversity in Higher Education is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Diversity, the President’s Diversity Initiative and the Office of the President.