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NASPA thanks the participants of the 2011 Conference on College Men and host institution, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis! Program and speaker information for the 2011 Conference is linked below. The next Conference will take place in May 2013. Time and location to be determined!

Program Description | Schedule | Speakers
 

May 23, 2011 Afternoon Keynote Address

College Men Without Gender: The Sociohistorical Origins of the Model Gender Majority Myth in American Higher Education

Dr. Frank Harris III, Assistant Professor, Postsecondary Educational Leadership and Student Affairs, San Diego State University, and Research Associate, Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California

Dr. Frank Harris III is an assistant professor of postsecondary educational leadership and student affairs at San Diego State University. His research is broadly focused on student development in higher education and explores questions related to the social construction of gender and race on college campuses, college men and masculinities, and racial/ethnic disparities in college student outcomes. His scholarship has been published in the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Men’s Studies, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, and a range of other journals and edited books. He is co-editor (with Shaun R. Harper) of College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Since 2004, he has delivered more than 50 professional conference presentations, research papers, workshops, symposia, and other scholarly addresses. In 2007, Harris received dissertation of the year awards from the American Educational Research Association (Division J) and the Association for Student Judicial Affairs. In 2008, he received an Outstanding Research Award from the American College Personnel Association’s (ACPA) Standing Committee for Men. In 2010 he was named an ACPA Emerging Scholar and received the ACPA Annuit Coeptis Award for early career achievement. Harris was program chair for the ACPA/NASPA 2009 Conference on College Men and currently serves on the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice editorial board.

Before joining the faculty at San Diego State, Harris spent nearly 10 years as a student affairs educator and college administrator working in the areas of student affairs administration, student crisis support and advocacy, new student orientation programs, multicultural student affairs, academic advising, and enrollment services. His most recent administrative appointment was at the University of Southern California as Associate Director of the Center for Urban Education.

Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Loyola Marymount University, a master’s degree in Speech Communication from California State University Northridge, and an Ed.D. in Higher Education from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.

May 24, 2011 Morning Keynote Address

Dr. Susan Marine, Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life and Director of the Harvard College Women's Center

For the past 17 years, Susan has held a variety of leadership roles in higher education gender equity and has special expertise in violence prevention, leadership development, women's empowerment, and support of LGBT students.

Susan founded the Harvard University Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in 2003, and the Harvard College Women's Center in 2006. She served as NASPA National Co-Chair of the Women in Student Affairs Knowledge Community from 2009-2011. She also serves on the National Board of the Take Back the Night Foundation, and has received awards for outstanding service from The Network/La Red: Ending Abuse in Lesbian, Bisexual Women's, and Transgender Communities and The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

Susan's academic work has focused on the intersectionality of feminism, transgender men's identity development, and institutional history and identity. Her dissertation, entitled Navigating Discourses of Discomfort: Women's College Student Affairs Administrators and Transgender Students, was supported by a research grant from the NASPA Foundation, as well as a dissertation grant from the Myra Sadker Foundation. Susan's current projects include authoring an ASHE Monograph entitled Queering the Campus: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in Higher Education and editing a handbook for colleges endeavoring to create optimal support structures for transgender students.

Susan holds an M.A. In College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University and a PhD in Higher Education from Boston College, where she teaches as an adjunct instructor. She is an avid yogi and practitioner of Vipassana meditation, and lives in Waltham, Massachusetts with her wife Karen.

May 24, 2011 Closing Panel

The conference will conclude with a panel of scholars and practitioners who will discuss masculinities in higher education and implications for work on campus.

Dr. Jason Laker, Vice President for Student Affairs, San Jose State University (Moderator)

Dr. Jason Laker is the Vice President for Student Affairs at San José State University, and Professor within the Connie L. Lurie College of Education.  He has chaired ACPA's Standing Committee for Men and was the Founding Chair of NASPA's Men and Masculinities Knowledge Community.  He is a frequent presenter, consultant, and writer on the subject of men's issues and development, including the upcoming texbook (with Dr. Tracy Davis), Masculinities in Higher Education, to be released in April by Routledge; and Canadian Perspectives on Men and Masculinities, due out in November from Oxford University Press.

Dr. Tracy Davis,  Professor and College Student Personnel Program Coordinator Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Illinois University

Dr.Tracy Davis is a Professor in the Department of Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Illinois University where he also coordinates the College Student Personnel Program. He also serves as Director of the newly established Center for the Study of Masculinities and Men's Development.  He has published widely regarding men's development, sexual assault prevention and social justice.  For example, Dr. Davis co-authored the book "Developing Social Justice Allies" and his next book, co-edited with Jason Laker, is entitled "Masculinities in Higher Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations". His sexual assault prevention research has won numerous awards including both the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and NASPA outstanding dissertation award. Tracy was also selected to the inaugural class of ACPA Emerging Scholars in 1999 and has received the SCM Outstanding Research Award and the Commission on Student Development Assessment's Outstanding Assessment Article award. He was also selected to receive the ACPA Annuit Coeptis award for Senior Scholars and the SCM Harry Canon Outstanding Professional in 2006. He is a frequent presenter, speaker and consultant on college campuses. Most importantly, he remains wildly unfinished.

Dr. Shaun Harper, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Prior to his appointment at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in 2007, Dr. Harper was an assistant professor and research associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State University. He also formerly served as an assistant professor and executive director of the Doctor of Education Program at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Harper received the 2005 Emerging Scholar Award and the 2006 Annuit Coeptis Award for early career achievement, both from the American College Personnel Association. He was also awarded the 2004 NASPA Dissertation of the Year Award. In September 2007, Dr. Harper was featured on the cover of Diverse Issues in Higher Education for his National Black Male College Achievement Study, the largest-ever empirical research study on Black male undergraduates. The National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics gave him its 2008 Outstanding Contribution to Research Award.

Dr. Susan Marine, Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life and Director of the Harvard College Women's Center

For the past 17 years, Susan has held a variety of leadership roles in higher education gender equity and has special expertise in violence prevention, leadership development, women's empowerment, and support of LGBT students.

Susan founded the Harvard University Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in 2003, and the Harvard College Women's Center in 2006. She served as NASPA National Co-Chair of the Women in Student Affairs Knowledge Community from 2009-2011. She also serves on the National Board of the Take Back the Night Foundation, and has received awards for outstanding service from The Network/La Red: Ending Abuse in Lesbian, Bisexual Women's, and Transgender Communities and The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

Rachel Wagner, Assistant Director, Residence Life, University of Dayton

Rachel Wagner is currently an Assistant Director in Housing and Residence Life at the University of Dayton and is a doctoral candidate in the Social Justice Education program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Rachel has presented on men and masculinities, anti-racist and social justice education at a number of campuses and national conferences.  She has trained Anytown facilitators for the National Coalition on Community and Justice and consulted with the Anti-Defamation League for their Making Diversity Count continuing education course for K-12 teachers.  Her research interests include male gender identity and the influence of masculinity performance on diversity related outcomes.  Rachel co-chaired the Knowledge Community on Men and Masculinities for the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators from 2006-2009. Her most recent publications address the intersection of gender and ability and the costs of fostering men's identity development for women administrators.