Conscious Campus is very excited to be attending our first NCORE! We will be showcasing Angelica Maria on Saturday and Jeff Schoep on Friday. If you are here, please do stop by booth #417 to say hello.
Formed in 1961, the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies (SWCHRS) is based at the University of Oklahoma Outreach / College of Continuing Education. SWCHRS is devoted to the study, understanding, and resolution of human conflict and to promoting understanding and cooperation among people of different racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. One of the major programs SWCHRS produces is the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE®). Held annually, NCORE® serves as the leading national forum of its kind and attracts national and international attendees representing more than 1,200 institutions of higher education, non-profits and other educational organizations.
NCORE® provides a significant forum for discussion and critical dialogue about race, ethnicity, and its intersections in higher education. This forum allows people and institutions to find effective strategies promoting access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in diverse settings.
In 1988, The Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies launched the first annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE®). This conference addressed the resurgence of racist incidents in higher education. Since its inception, NCORE® has evolved into a vital national resource. NCORE fosters vibrant community understanding across socially constructed differences. We annually convene to share promising and emergent practices and present scholarly findings. The conference affords opportunities to bear witness to our experiences and generate new knowledge as we equip each other with actionable resources. These actions occur in service supporting the development of constructive, equitable, transformative change in our institutions and communities.
The NCORE® conference series constitutes the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in higher education. The conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change. This change work is designed to improve racial and ethnic relations and their intersections with other issues and groups on campus. The conference speakers and sessions offer strategies for expanding educational access and success for diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations.