CASE Events
CASE Events
Upcoming CASE Events
2022 CASE Annual Summit
Save the date - Tuesday, March 8, 2022
More info will be forthcoming.
Past Events
CASE Annual Fall Forum - November 10, 2021
Thank you for attending CASE Annual Fall Forum “Race and Education”!
Center for Access, Success and Equity (CASE)
in partnership with the CED Provost Teaching Fellows
presented:
CASE Annual Fall Forum
Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Charles Dew, author of “The Making of a Racist”,
and faculty keynote speaker Dr. Adam Alvarez.
About Dr. Charles Dew
Charles B. Dew is Ephraim Williams Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Williams College. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, he attended local schools and then graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia in 1954 and from Williams in 1958; he received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied under C. Vann Woodward, in 1964. He taught at Wayne State University, Louisiana State University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Virginia before returning to teach at Williams in 1977.
Professor Dew retired in 2020 following forty-three years as a member of the Williams faculty. His teaching there focused on the American South, the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the institution of slavery. His most recent book is The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade. Earlier scholarship includes: Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge; Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War; and Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Ironworks. Ironmaker to the Confederacy and Apostles of Disunion both received the Fletcher Pratt Award, given by the Civil War Roundtable of New York for the best non-fiction book on the Civil War in its year of publication, and Bond of Iron received the Elliot Rudwick Prize from the Organizations of American Historians and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
In a semester when many of his History Department colleagues will be on leave, he will be returning to the classroom in the spring of 2022 to teach his research seminar, HIST 456 “The Civil War & the Era of Reconstruction.”
About Adam Alvarez, Ph.D.
Dr. Adam Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education, College of Education, Rowan University. While his research aims to support all educators in K-12 settings, Dr. Alvarez is particularly interested in educators who work with children of color, children living in urban environments, and children who are exposed to violence and trauma. He uses various race-based, analytic frameworks and diverse methodological approaches to study how race and racism shape the social context of education across various settings. Featured in Theory into Practice, Equity and Excellence in Education, and Teaching Education, his scholarship contributes to a growing body of research, attempting to shift our institutional approaches toward preparing future educators and researchers to recognize and disrupt longstanding school and social inequalities.
Dr. Alvarez teaches graduate courses, such as critical pedagogy, power and privilege, and other topics related to urban education. Additionally, Dr. Alvarez is a core faculty member in the Urban and Diverse Educational Systems, an area of concentration within Rowan’s PhD in Education program for students seeking to either specialize in urban education research or broaden their understanding of and interdisciplinary approaches to exploring race, equity, and justice across various school and social contexts.
Dr. Alvarez is the 2021 Recipient of American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Review of Research Award. Topic: “Seeing Race in the Research on Youth Trauma and Education.”
CASE Conversations Fall 2021
Thank you for attending CASE Conversations “Education in the Midst of a Pandemic” featuring a panel discussion with Dr. Cory Dixon, Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math Education (STEAM), Dr. Mark Silverstein, Superintendent of Glassboro Public Schools, and Dr. Zenaida Cobian, Superintendent of Penns Grove and Carneys Point Regional School District. Our panel was moderated by Dr. Adrian Barnes, Summer 2021 CASE Fellow and Coordinator of BA in Music Education.
This conversation invited participants to think deeply about education during a pandemic and to uncover what new challenges are now a factor as students and educators across the country transition back to in-person instruction.
2021 CASE Virtual Summit
Impact of a Pandemic and Social Injustice on Access and Equity in Education
March 5, 2021
2020-2021 CASE Conversations series
- A Professional and Personal Journey to Why
Presenter: Dr. Lisa Vernon-Dotson
November 2020 - Understanding the Effects of Trauma on P-12 Students
Presenters: Dr. JoAnn Manning and Dr. Bobbie Mann
December 2020 - Mental Health Awareness for our Black and Brown Communities and the Importance of a Well-balanced Education for Students and educators
Presenter: Jonathan Shepherd, MD, President, Board of Directors of Black Mental Health Alliance
February 2021 - Research Funding Opportunities in Education
Presenter: Stephen Robishaw, MPA, Office of Proposal Development Division of University Research
February 2021 - The Impact of Education on Hate Crimes
Presenters: Dr. Adam Alvarez, Dr. Adrian Barnes, Dr. Kate Kedley, Dr. Anna Sun
May 2021
2018-2019 Real Talk and Book Club Events
- Thanks to all who attended, supported and assisted with the third annual CASE Conference: Educators for Equity on March 19, 2019. With 113 attendees, it was a successful event that really highlighted the equity work of CASE and the College of Education at large.
- Our keynote, Dr. Edward Fergus, helped to set the tone of the day, giving additional emphasize to the importance of engaging in this work.
- Breakout sessions highlighted equity efforts in Bridgeton, Delsea, Glassboro, Haddonfield, Kingsway, Logan and Lumberton school districts.
- Our panel of Superintendents from Delsea, GCIT, Haddonfield, Kingsway, Logan and Lumberton school districts was a great dialogue and opportunity to hear from school leadership about the self-reflection, commitment, and continuous improvement around equity within our areas schools, for many as a result of their partnership with CASE.
2018 CASE Mini-Conference
2017 Inaugural Mini-Conference and Grand Opening Event
2017 Real Talk
2017 Research Panel
2016 Real Talk
American Promise film showing and discussion with filmmakers
