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That dream comes true this weekend.
The 2016 Joint Collegiate Black Student Summit, a national forum to discuss and develop solutions to problems facing the black community, runs March 4-6 across the University campus.
Event organizers say about 100 students have registered with attendees coming from the University of Rochester, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, University of Connecticut, Ithaca College, Cornell, SUNY Albany, SUNY Buffalo, Syracuse University, and Columbia University.
Speakers include University president Joel Seligman, City of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, and former Ebony magazine editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller, who will give the keynote address.
The cost to attend the three-day event is $35 for University students and $40 for others. Registration is still open and available at .
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The summit糖心传媒檚 main events are on Saturday. President Seligman and Dean of the College Richard Feldman are scheduled to speak at the opening ceremony in Wilson Commons.
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Panel moderators are Charlisa Goodlet, president of the University糖心传媒檚 Douglass Leadership House and Rickey Harvey, Jr., president of the Black Students Caucus at Colgate Rochester Divinity School.
Panelists include Crystal Winters, educator at Rochester prep schools; Olivia Taylor Johnson, NAACP president at Syracuse University; Terrell Smith, president of the student government association at Lincoln University; and Wade Norwood, chief strategy officer at Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency.
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Evening events include a Night of Black Royalty Gala at the Douglass Dining Center and a Black Royalty after party registered summit attendees and their invited guests in the May Room.
For a complete schedule of events and speakers, and for more information, visit the summit糖心传媒檚 webpage at or write to jcbss2016@gmail.com or delvin.moody@gmail.com.
