Office of Undergraduate Admission

Office of Undergraduate Admission

Native American Student Symposium



The registration deadline for this event has passed.
If you are interested in attending, please contact
Associate Dean Timothy Fields (tlfield@emory.edu).



The Office of Undergraduate Admission, along with Emory faculty and staff, is exploring how Emory University can better support and grow the Native American community on campus.

We are hosting a Native American Student Symposium November 14 - 16, 2018, to foster further dialogue on this important topic. Emory faculty and staff who work in the areas of enrollment, campus life, academic and student support, among others, are invited to attend and participate.

Experts in higher education for Native American students will help lead discussions and offer insights: 


Jonathan R. Burdick is Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid and Vice Provost for Enrollment Initiatives at the University of Rochester. He oversees university financial aid, marketing, undergraduate and international admissions. He has contributed to the field for 33 years with a focus on increasing campus inclusiveness and internationalization. While delivering enrollment success at Rochester, he has also traveled worldwide on behalf of the College Board, Educational Testing Service, and the International Baccalaureate Organization. He is a frequent speaker at numerous annual national and international conferences and has been widely cited in both the press and social media, and was awarded the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC’s) Inclusion, Access, and Success Award in 2016.



Carmen Lopez, Ed.M., is Executive Director of College Horizons; Carmen assumed the directorship of College Horizons in 2009 after serving for five years as the Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP). At HUNAP she oversaw the operation of the university-wide Interfaculty Initiative which focused on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian recruitment and student support; interdisciplinary teaching and research projects on Native issues; and community outreach. Carmen also served as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on Ethnic Studies, The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Admissions Reader for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Policy program, and a Reader and Site Visitor for the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Honoring Nations Program.


Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (Tuscarora) grew up in Syracuse, NY. She received her Ph.D. in History from Cornell University. Currently a member of the faculty at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), she works at the intersection of American Indian history and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Mt. Pleasant’s research focuses on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history during the colonial period and early American republic. She is completing a book about Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people in the post-Revolutionary War period that focuses on the history of the Buffalo Creek Reservation near today's Buffalo, NY. She has published many articles and book chapters about Indigenous education, Indian-missionary relations, material culture, Indigenous biography, and the early American republic. Her scholarship has been supported by numerous fellowships, including a year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Beyond her work as a faculty member, Mt. Pleasant serves as founding Program Director of the Native American Scholars Initiative at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. She has also served on the elected council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and was recently elected to the Council of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture.

Richard A. Shaw, M.A., began his tenure as Stanford's dean of admission and financial aid in 2005. Upon his appointment, Stanford Provost John Etchemendy said, “Rick Shaw offers proven experience in several areas of vital importance to Stanford, including creating a diverse student body. He also knows the challenges involved in selective admissions, in making the case for the liberal arts and for ensuring that higher education is accessible to everyone.” Dean Shaw led Yale's undergraduate admissions and financial aid office from 1993–2005. Prior to joining Yale, Shaw served as Director of Admissions at the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1993, Associate Director of Admissions and records at the University of California-Berkeley from 1983 to 1988 and in various admission and residence positions at the University of Colorado-Boulder from 1972 to 1981.


Jace Weaver, Ph.D., is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and the Director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. As director, he serves as advisor for all students in the undergraduate and graduate Native American Studies Programs. He holds two doctorates, a J.D. from Columbia Law School of Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is an established leader in Native American Studies, specializing in cultures, literature, and law. He is the author or editor of fifteen books.



Jason Younker, Ph.D., is the Assistant Vice President and Advisor to the President on Sovereignty and Government-to-Government Relations at the University of Oregon and a citizen of the Coquille Indian Tribe. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the UO (2004) and returned to Oregon after teaching at Rochester Institute of Technology for a decade. Younker received the prestigious Ely S. Parker Award from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (2014) for his work with tribal governments and students in higher education. He is the Past-President of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists and is originally from Coos Bay, Oregon.




 

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