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January 30, 2009   
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER AT SUNY ONEONTA TO EXPLORE DIVERSITY STAGES AND COALITION BUILDING

ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Dr. Troy Duster, Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge and Professor of Sociology at New York University, will offer a presentation on "Diversity Stages and Coalition Building among Campus Constituencies" on Tuesday, February 10, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center at the SUNY College at Oneonta. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.

In addition to his work at NYU, Dr. Duster is a Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the former Director of the American Cultures Center and founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, both at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a mentor to students and colleagues and a consistent voice in the recruitment and retention of social identity groups that have not been an integral part of higher education.

Dr. Duster has been a member of the Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences; the Committee on Social and Ethical Impacts of Advances in Biomedicine, Institute of Medicine; the Special Commission of the Association of American Law Schools; the Commission on Meeting the Challenges of Diversity in an Academic Democracy; and the Science Advisory Panel, National Institutes of Health, Research, on Violence. He has served as President of the American Sociological Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council.

Dr. Duster's books and monographs include The Legislation of Morality, Aims and Control of the Universities, Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge, Backdoor to Eugenics, and Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Colorblind Society.

Dr. Duster's appearance at SUNY Oneonta is sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Experiences and the Office of Equity and Inclusion. More information is available from Dr. Cecilia Zapata of the Office of Equity and Inclusion at (607) 436-2830.

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For more information about the College, please call the Community Relations Office at (607) 436-2748 or send e-mail to Carol Blazina, Vice President for Community Relations.   
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