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Educational Equity Expert Gives Free Public Lecture at USM

March 4, 2004

Peggy McIntosh, an internationally recognized educator, consultant, and author, will give a free public lecture at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 11, in Room 301 of Bailey Hall, on USM's Gorham campus.

The lecture, titled "Feeling Like a Fraud," is part of her spring visit to USM's College of Education and Human Development, where she is serving as a Visiting Libra Scholar.

The associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, McIntosh has earned an international reputation for her examination of power and privilege as they play out in educational settings. She is founder and co-director of the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Project on Inclusive Curriculum), which helps teachers create year-long, school-based seminars to help their schools, curricula, and teaching methods become more gender fair and multi-culturally equitable.

"We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. McIntosh visit USM," said Betty Lou Whitford, dean and professor at USM's College of Education and Human Development. "Her scholarship on the effects of privilege on education is seminal. Moreover, she has extensive experience in using scholarship to help others examine curriculum, teaching, and learning to uncover the ways in which we often unwittingly are undermined by our lack of attention to differences."

The Libra Professorships were established in 1989 to attract nationally known scholars to System campuses. The Professorships are endowed by a gift of $5 million to the University of Maine System by the late Elizabeth B. Noyce.

For more information, call Kim Warren at (207) 780-5902, or visit www.usm.maine.edu/cehd/Peggy_McIntosh.htm.

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