Leadership Opportunities

Leadership Opportunities

Student Diversity & Leadership Conference

About The Conference:

The SUNY Oneonta Student Diversity & Leadership Conference is an event designed for individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to interact with student, administrator, and faculty presenters and exchange information to enhance multicultural comprehension, self-awareness, and leadership skills. Participants will apply the acquired skills, tools, and insight to advance their personal development and be effective leaders both on campus and in the surrounding communities.

The 2024 Conference will be held on Saturday March 23rd, from 9:00am - 5:00pm in SUNY Oneonta's Center for Racial Justice & Inclusive Excellence.

Registration is open! Register using this link.

$15 registration fee covers access to panels/workshops and lunch.

SUNY Oneonta Students can register for free before March 8.

Call for Proposals:

For the 13th year, the SUNY Oneonta Office of Equity and Inclusion is happy to host the Student Diversity Leadership Conference. The 2024 conference will consider the following theme:

What Unites Us

In a world that can appear increasingly hostile and divisive, this conference looks to bring together a series of panels, talks, roundtables, artistic expressions, posters, and workshops that consider the concepts of solidarity, equity, and justice in spaces that range from the local to the national and the global. We will be looking at how we view and interact with leaders in our world, schools, and communities, and how we can bring a more equitable environment to all.

Presentations and discussions can follow a range of possible topics and formats. We encourage those who are interested in presenting to submit proposals for this conference that will provide opportunities to explore leadership, culture, beliefs, biases, etc., from their own perspectives. Areas of focus can include, among other things, race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, disability, religion, and intersectionality. Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to:

  • Leadership Development
  • Discourse and Difficult Conversations
  • The Value of Cultural Differences
  • Global Awareness/Global Education
  • Healthcare Access
  • Political Effects on our Society
  • Self-Care
  • Personal and Professional Growth
  • Civic Engagement/Social Justice

Proposals will be evaluated based on relevance to current issues, creativity, ingenuity, and applicability for participants after the conference. Presenters’ registration fees will be waived if their proposals are accepted.

The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to Friday, January 5th, 2024. The conference planning committee will send notification regarding the status of your proposal by Friday, January 26th, 2024. Any questions or concerns can be directed to Chelsea McCracken, Interim Director of the Center for Racial Justice & Inclusive Excellence, at Chelsea.Mccracken@oneonta.edu.

2024 Student Diversity and Leadership Conference Schedule For Saturday, March 23
Time Activity
9:00 a.m. to 10:00a.m. Restorative Justice Workshop: Community Building Circles
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Restorative Justice Workshop: Problem Solving Circles
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Session 1 (Great Room, Lee Hall): Inclusive Programing 101 (Rasheed Elmouchtari) and Career Development as Social Justice (Christy Funsch)

Session 2 (Freedom Room, Lee Hall): Breaking Boarders: Using art to talk about institutional oppression (Dr. Maria Chaves Daza)

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Poster Session:

  • Cultivating Global Leadership Skills in College Students: Navigating Cross-Cultural Employee Management Between Japanese and US Workplaces (Dr. Liyao Pan, Dr. Barbara Durkin)
  • Racial Disparities Between Black and non-Hispanic White Women in Intrapartum Care (Kathryn Pilliod, Jahmani Cox, Duncan Jarvi, Carson Nellins)
  • Diversity within the Divine Leaders (Vanessa Danso, Eliana Lopez, Eric Ruiz, Sally Miranda Gonzalez, Simone John- Sandy, Alicia Griffith, Gianni Charles, Analis Ventura)
  • The Oldest "Kids" in the Class (Julie Condon)
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Session 1 (Great Room, Lee Hall): Diversity of What? Why More of...everything is good for Democracy (Dr. Matt Chick, Dr. Laurel Elder, Dr. Zach McKenney) and Tales for Students: A Latina’s Perspective (Christina Maldonado)

Session 2 (Freedom Room, Lee Hall): SDEIC Presentation

3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Activism’s Influence on Outcomes of Race-Related Stressors Among Black College Students (Dr. Laura Arias and Eric Ruiz)

Contact

Chelsea McCracken
Interim Director of the Center for Racial Justice & Inclusive Excellence
chelsea.mccracken@oneonta.edu

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