Calendars & Events
Dialogue Series presents Walter E. Dellinger lll
Friday, December 2, 2011
College of Educational Studies and The School of Law will host a
Dialogue Series Presentation
Lincoln, King and Mendez: The Quest for American Equality
Speakers: Walter E. Dellinger lll, Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, Duke University School of Law, Member of the Appellate Practice at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and head the Harvard/O’Melveny Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Clinic.
Kennedy Hall, Room 237 A/B, 11:30 a.m
CES and School of Law to Host Emergency Scholars Conference
Exploring Difference: Disability and Diversity in Education, Law, and Society
 Event Website
Celebration of Sylvia Mendez Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Inauguration of the MvW 5,001 Campaign
Event Invitation and Information (PDF)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
5pm - Appetizer Reception
6pm - Formal Remarks
7pm - Mendez Film Screening
Space is limited, please RSVP to CES@chapman.edu
Friday, March 18th, 2011
4:30pm - 6:30pm Presentation
6:30 - 7:30pm "Fireside Chat"
Beckman 103
Truth, Lies & O-Rings: Lessons From Challenger
A leadership symposium commemorating the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster
Featuring:
Allan J. McDonald
Director, Solid Rocket Motor Project,
Morton Thiokol (ret.)
Author, Truth, Lies, & O-Rings
Richard C. Cook
NASA Solid Rocket Booster
Resource Analyst (ret.)
Author, Challenger Revealed
Moderated by
Mark Maier, Ph.D.
Director, Leadership Studies Program
College of Educational Studies
Monday, January 24, 2 - 5 pm
Sandhu Conference Center
Chapman University
Race to Nowhere Film Screening and Q&A with Director, Vicki Abeles
"Race to Nowhere" (PDF)
Monday, November 29 - Irvine Lecture Hall
7:00pm Reception
7:30pm Film Screening
Followed by Q&A with Producer and Director Vicki Abeles
Learn more about this event
Rueben Martinez to speak at Chapman
"Embracing Literature and Strengthening Communities" (PDF)
November 17th 2010
4:30pm-6:30pm Presentation
6:30pm-7:30pm Reception
Irvine Lecture Hall
Dr. Kent Keith coming to Chapman...
CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (PDF)
Library Archives Established to Honor Architects of Education
Mendez v. Westminster
In Orange County in 1947, Mexican-American Gonzalo Mendez and Felicitas, his Puerto Rican wife, courageously challenged the nationwide practice and accepted norm of school segregation. Emboldened by dreams for their children, the Mendez couple filed a lawsuit with four other families against school districts in Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Orange on behalf of 5,000 children who had been excluded from attending white schools. The bold actions of these individuals opened a floodgate of support, including the backing of Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP, and California Governor Earl Warren. The successful Mendez lawsuit resulted in California being the first state to end school segregation, helping pave the way for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. The Board of Education, which finally closed the chapter on school segregation. The Mendez case will become an essential element in the official California curriculum frameworks and, furthermore, the significance of the Mendez decision has been commemorated on a national level through the issuance of a stamp by the U.S. Postal Service in 2007. The archival commemoration is a collaborative initiative undertaken by the Leatherby Libraries and the College of Educational Studies. The collection will recognize the valuable contribution made by the five families represented in the case: the Mendez family and the co-plaintiff families of Ramirez, Palomino, Estrada, and Guzman.
The date of the official opening of the archive collection will be announced shortly.
 Paulo Freire 1921-1997
One of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Freire's work began an international dialogue that continues to change and shape modern pedagogy. In his home country of Brazil in the 1960s, Freire embarked on a campaign to teach literacy to impoverished workers, enabling them to vote and participate in policies that affected their lives. His actions endangered his state position, led to imprisonment and eventually exile. However, his voice would not be stilled, beginning with his internationally acclaimed book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which has been translated into 18 languages and sold over 750,000 copies worldwide. He subsequently authored two dozen education books that have also been published internationally, and traveled extensively, building a network of disciple educators. His legacy includes numerous worldwide Paulo Freire Institutes that continue to weave in the voices of impassioned educators, as well as publication of countless books. In addition to international awards, Freire received an honorary doctorate in 1998 from Chapman University.
The opening for the archival collection will be
held on February 25, 2009, with a keynote address by one of his many disciples, Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her most recent book is Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach, Paradigm Publishers, 2008.
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