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First-year Announcements
September 25 (b), 2000

To: Advocates Students and Alums
From: Stephen Wright <sw125@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: Fwd: a late invitation for a great seminar on inner city youth
in Jamaica

FYI - Speaker on campus tomorrow about children's issue:

>From: "Steve Klees"
>Subject: a late invitation for a great seminar on inner city youth in Jamaica
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:26:23 -0400
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I would like to invite you to attend a seminar on:
>
>"TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION FOR JAMAICAN INNER CITY YOUTH"
>
>by PROF. ANNE HICKLING HUDSON, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
>
>on TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 3:00-4:30, Room 3237, Benjamin Bldg.
>
>Refreshments will be served afterwards.
>
>I apologize for this late invitation, but I just learned that Prof. Hudson
>could pay us a quick visit on her way back to Australia from doing research
>in the Caribbean. Prof. Hudson is a very well-published and well-known
>scholar in comparative and international education. She is the President of
>Australian and New Zealand comparative education society and is on the
>executive board of the U.S. society and of the World Congress, the global
>umbrella organization for comparative education societies. Much of her work
>research on marginalized groups. She has done significant work on adult
>education, literacy, and cultural issues in teacher education curriculum.
>She also is completing a study on higher education in the English-speaking
>countries in the Caribbean. Prof. Hudson is from Jamaica and her early work
>as a teacher was in Kingston's inner city schools. Prof. Hudson is an
>exceptional scholar, an exceptional human being, and a very engaging
>speaker. Please take advantage of this opportunity if you can.
>
>Steve Klees
>
>Prof. Steven J. Klees, Coordinator
>International Education Policy Program
>2110 Benjamin Bldg.
>University of Maryland
>College Park, MD 20742
>
>TEL: 301-405-2212
>FAX: 301-405-3573
>E-MAIL: sklees@wam.umd.edu
>

If you don't know where the building is, go to
http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/About_UMCP/Maps/
or http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Facilities/Buildings/EDU/
Both have links to the southwest quad map (find H-4):
http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/About_UMCP/Maps/southwest.html
Benjamin Bldg. is between Tawes Theater (southwest quad) and Cole Field
House / Stamp Student Union (northwest quad)

--
-Steve Wright (sw125@umail.umd.edu)
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/family/Steve.html

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