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Background
 Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foreword
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NEF Purpose
Conference
Conference
Mission
Conference
Objectives
Research
Plans
Conference
Agenda
Conference
Summary
Workshop
I Summary
Workshop II Summary
 Workshop III Summary
What's Next?
Photographs
Human
Genome News article
Presenters
Dr.
Aristides A. Patrinos
Dr.
John Quackenbush
Dr.
Georgia M. Dunston
Dr. Mary
Kay Pelias
Dr.
Fatimah Jackson
Dr. Christopher
Adams
Dr. Rosalind
P. Hale
Dr.
Margaret C. Werner-Washburne
Rev. Dr.
Deborah P. Wolfe
Dr. Jeroo
S. Kotval
Betty
K. Mansfield
Issie
L. Shelton Jenkins, Esq.
Phyllis
Griffin Epps, Esq.
Dr.
Kathryn T. Malvern
Contact Information
Board of Managers
Presenters
National
Educational Foundation
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Workshop II Summary
Genomics and its Challenge in the Education of Minorities
Facilitator:
Dr. Rosalind Pijeaux Hale
Panelists: Reverand
Dr. Deborah Partridge Wolfe, Dr. Margaret Werner-Washburne, and Dr. Jeroo
S. Kotval
Recommendations:
- Create settings that will
develop good mentoring situations for minorities.
- Develop a working committee
to continue to find solutions.
- Create a network of young
people who have completed various programs.
- Develop the teaching force
that is knowledgeable about these topics and that encourages minorities
to pursue these fields.
- Capitalize on government funds
for teacher training and for student scholarships.
- Use curriculum specialists
to develop the curriculum needed.
- Involve a variety of community
groups to discuss these issues and help (churches, sororities, fraternities,
etc.)
- Increase the awareness of
the large number of careers needed in the Genome Project besides scientists:
Social Workers, Sociologists, Psychologists, Anthropologists, Genetic
Counselors, Theologians, Public Relations, etc.
- Increase the awareness of
teachers concerning the curriculum areas involved.
- Require Federal Agency Institutional
training grants to include:
- Adequate minority representation
- An infrastructure in place
to make it work
- An evaluation process
- Support leaders who take risks
that indicate an understanding of these issues.
- Develop more training opportunities
for veteran teachers (summer, internships).
- Provide meaning as to why
minorities should select these careers. They bring cultural factors that
would otherwise be excluded.
- Become more knowledgeable
about the various sources of information available.
Remember: It takes a community
to raise a child. Therefore, everyone must be involved
in the success of minority students in these fields.
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