In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the College of Charleston Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) and Círculo Hispanoamericano de Charleston will host Fernando Colón-Navarro, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. Dean Colón-Navarro will speak about the Pre-Brown vs. Board of Education struggle for Latino children in the public schools.
The program will take place on September 30, 2011, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Theodore S. Stern Center Ballroom located at 71 George Street. A pre-program reception will be held from 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Both the reception and the main program are open to the public.
Dean Colón-Navarro holds multiple awards and outstanding recognitions, including Professor of the Year and Outstanding Advisor from the Hispanic Law Student Association, and Professor of the Year for three consecutive years from the Chicano Law Association. His professional experience includes twenty years in higher education. He has extensive experience working in multiple State and Federal Courts. Dean Colón-Navarro is the Co-Founder of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law Institute for International and Immigration Law.
For more information on other OID programs, please visit the website at: diversity.cofc.edu.
