Multicultural Education Focus of Creekmore Symposium

Contact: Michael Cinelli
Phone: (713) 831-4794

Multicultural Education Focus of Creekmore Symposium

The challenges college administrators and
faculty face in helping teachers to provide quality educational
opportunities for minority students is the focus of this year’s
Hazel G. Creekmore Symposium.

The symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, March 21, 1995, in the
Grand Hall of the Rice Memorial Center at Rice University. The
program starts at 4:30 p.m. and is open to the general public. There
is no charge for admission.

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, the Charles Howard Candler Professor
of Urban Education at Emory University and the director of The
Center for Urban Learning/Teaching and Urban Research in Education
and Schools in Atlanta, Ga., will deliver the symposium’s keynote
address entitled “Multicultural Education: Perplexing Problems and
Promising Practices.”

Irvine will be available for interviews either shortly before or
shortly after her presentation.

The Hazel G. Creekmore Memorial Curriculum Collection at Fondren
Library on the Rice University campus was established in 1993. The
collection provides teachers, education students and Rice faculty
with professional resources on curriculum, teaching and children.

The collection, honoring a former Houston teacher, will be built
over time with earnings from the initial gift of $100,000 from the
Houston Endowment Inc., plus any future gifts to the fund.

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