Beverly Tatum

Speaker: Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College
Title: Challenge of Diversity in Higher Education


Monday, November 5, 2007

4:30-6:00pm McConomy Auditorium

 University Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum is President of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining Spelman College she was Acting President and Dean and a professor of education and psychology at Mt. Holyoke College. She is a clinical psychologist who has addressed issues surrounding race and racism in her courses, psychology practice and consulting. One area of focus for two of her books has been racial identity as it is experienced throughout our educational system for students of underrepresented racial/ethnic populations.  She is the author of: Assimilation Blues:Black Families in White Communities (1987),Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race, Assimilation Blues:Black Families in White Communities (1997) and published this year  Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (2007)

Supported by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation