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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration features dinner speech
January 17, 2005 —
Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell will deliver the keynote address for SVSU's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration Thursday. The Dartmouth College professor will provide the speech "What has Become of the Dream?" during a 6 pm dinner in the Curtiss Hall seminar rooms.
Dr. Mamie T. Thorns, special assistant to the president for Diversity Programs, says that having an individual such as Bell on campus is quite a special occasion. "We are very excited and honored to host one of the nation's leading scholars both in industry and academy with regards to organizational change and management of race, gender, and class," she says.
Bell, an authority on topics related to organizational change and the management of race, gender and class in organizational life, has been a consultant to Fortune 500 companies including Procter and Gamble, General Electric and Salomon Smith Barney. Along with her consultations, Bell has appeared on CNN's "Democracy in America 1996" and writes a regular column for Essence magazine. She co-authored the 2001 book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity and has contributed to numerous management journals and magazines.
"Dr. Bell's presentation will provide wisdom, open and honest assessment of what's become of the dream," Thorns says.
"It will provide some practical solutions in addressing diversity and multiculturalism in the academic and business community."
No matter the brevity of Bell's time on campus, Thorns believes her appearance will leave a lasting impression on SVSU, its students and the faculty.
"Dr. Bell's visit here at SVSU will be educational, thought-provoking, and will assist us in fully embracing diversity in all facets of the institutions and the community as we continue to keep Dr. King's dream alive," she says.