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University of Wyoming

Symposium Coordinated by the Office of Conferences and Institutes Receives National Award


July 17, 2006 (Laramie, WY) -- The University of Wyoming’s Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, an annual event that promotes strategies and actions that can eliminate social inequality, is being recognized by a national education organization.

The Shepard Symposium received the 2006 Nicholas Michelli Award for Promoting Social Justice.  The National Network for Education Renewal (NNER) sponsors the award that will be presented at the organization’s annual conference in Cincinnati this October.

An annual event at UW since 1997, the symposium has grown from a local grassroots event to a nationally recognized conference.  The event, originally named “The Symposium for the Eradication of Social Inequality,” honors the work of the Shepard family and the memory of their son Matthew Shepard, a UW student who was murdered in 1998.  Each year the event includes various workshops and keynote addresses.

Several years ago, the NNER instituted two network-wide competitions, one for advancing social justice and another for exemplary partner schoolwork.

UW College of Law Dean Jerry Parkinson; Rosie Castaneda, Department of Educational Studies assistant professor; and Audrey Kleinsasser, director of the Wyoming School-University Partnership, assembled materials, including a detailed nomination form for the Michelli award.

The NNER is a membership network dedicated to the simultaneous renewal of schools and the institutions that prepare classroom teachers.  The organization provides equal access to quality learning for all students; promotes responsible stewardship of schools and universities; improves teaching and learning through pedagogy that nurtures and challenges all learners; and provides students with the knowledge, skills and disposition to become fully engaged participants in society.  The NNER is present in 20 states and one Canadian province.

UW Office of Conferences and Institutes coordinate the Shepard Symposium annually.  For more information on the Shepard Symposium please visitwww.shepardsymposium.org.  To find out how the Office of Conferences and Institutes can help you organize your next event please visit http://outreach.uwyo.edu/conferences/.

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