About the Conference
We are excited to host our second annual Black Boys and Men Symposium on June 14-16, 2023. The inaugural symposium was a huge success with just under 300 attendees. We hope you can join us!
Grand Valley State University seeks to bring together youth service providers, K-12 educators, higher education faculty and staff, and community leaders to understand and interrogate the “systems” that impact the lives of Black boys & men in order to deconstruct and rebuild for their success.
Through a lens of intersectionality, the Black Boys & Men Symposium looks holistically at the lives of Black boys & men in a variety of educational and other contexts. The symposium is focused on creating a vision for equitable transformation throughout the educational pipeline, from K-12 to higher education and beyond. The symposium is designed to be a place of personal and professional growth for those who walk alongside Black boys & men to engage in discussion, learning, and action.
Register for BBMS & Sneaker Ball
Goals for Symposium
Goal 1: Bring state stakeholders together to begin to outline a plan for success and create a pipeline to include K-12, higher education, and beyond.
Goal 2: Acknowledge the historical realities that have shaped outcomes for Black boys and men in order to create new realities.
Goal 3: Identify systemic barriers in order to generate discussion, ideas, and solutions for equity.
Goal 4: Create change agents by sharing leading practices and creating the capacity to create new and better outcomes.
Goal 5: Deconstruct and rebuild systems to create the conditions for Black boys & men success.
Attendee Registration Rate
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Registration |
Fee |
Date |
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Regular (Includes Sneaker Ball ticket) |
$400 |
Until May 31 |
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Late (Includes Sneaker Ball ticket) |
$450 |
Starting June 1 |
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High School Student Rate |
Contact [email protected] for information |
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Sneaker Ball ONLY |
$100 (Adult only) |
Thursday, June 15 |