BEA Annual Faculty Recognition Reception

BEA Promotion and Tenure Workshop

Spiral Up: Lessons on Leadership

Spiral Up: Lessons on Leadership
Dr. Ronald Crutcher, President University of Richmond
March 20, 2017 
5:00 – 6:00 PM
James Cabell Library Auditorium (3rd Floor)

Dr. Crutcher is a Phi Betta Kappa graduate of Miami University and he is the University of Richmond’s first African American President. Dr. Crutcher is the 10th President for the University of Richmond and a national leader in higher education with honorary degrees from Wheaton College, Colgate University, and Muhlenberg College. He is President Emeritus of Wheaton College in Massachusetts where he held the President’s role from 2004 thru 2014.

Dr. Crutcher actively promotes access, affordability, diversity, and inclusivity. He is the founding co-chair of Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ national campaign to demonstrate the value of liberal education. Dr. Crutcher is actively involved in many local and national for profit, non-profit, and professional organizations.

Dr. Crutcher is a former member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and several other symphonies. He currently performs in the U.S. and Europe as a member of the Klemperer Trio with Erika Klemperer (Violin) and Gordan Back (piano). He serves on the board of the symphony and has served on the boards of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Berklee College of Music. Dr. Crutcher was the first cellist to receive the doctor of musical arts degree from Yale.

Join us as we hear from a national leader in higher education, a distinguished classical musician, and an accomplished administrator.

Sponsored by: The Black Education Association (BEA), the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) and the Anthropology program at VCU.

BEA Holiday Reception

BEA General Body Meeting

Brown Bag Discussion: VCU HR Redesign

Faculty Convocation

OMSA Welcome Week

Student Networking Reception with BEA and BGSA

 

BEA Annual Faculty Welcome Reception

Congratulations to our members on their outstanding accomplishments for the 2015-2016 academic school year! See a detailed list of their accomplishments from our faculty recognition reception.

 

2015-2016 BEA Faculty Recognition Reception

The BEA hosted its annual BEA Faculty Recognition Reception, on Thursday May 5, from 4:00p.m. to 6:00 to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty during this academic year.

Roundtable Discussion
CURRENT ISSUES IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
MCV Campus, Molecular Medicine Research Building, 1220 E. BroadSt., Room 1013

Speakers
Wally Smith, M.D., Florence Neal Cooper Smith, Professor of Sickle Cell Disease, VCU
Gaurav Gupta, M.D., Program Director, Transplant Nephrology Fellowship, VCU
David Klassen, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
Velma Scantlebury, M.D., Associate Director, Kidney Transplant Program, Christiana Care, DE

Convenient guest parking for the Molecular Medicine Research Building is located in the Main Street Deck (801 W. Main St.) for a nominal fee. Additional street parking is available.

 

Community Lecture
HEALTH EQUITY IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION:
EXPERIENCES FROM A SURGEON'S PERSPECTIVE
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monroe Park Campus, VCU Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., Student Commons Theater

Speaker
Velma Scantlebury, M.D., Associate Director, Kidney Transplant Program, Christiana Care, DE

 

Reception Immediately Following

Convenient guest parking for the VCU Student Commons is located in the Main Street Deck (801 W. Main St.) for a nominal fee. Additional street parking is available.

In 1989 Dr. Velma Scantlebury-White became America's first black female transplant surgeon. In her 16 years at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and subsequently at the University of Southern Alabama (USA), Scantlebury dedicated herself to increasing the number of kidney transplants for black patients. She took the lead in educating black Americans about donating organs and tissues for transplantation, and as of 2007, she had performed more than 800 cadaver and 200 living-donor transplant surgeries in children and adults. Scantlebury had coauthored more than 100 research publications, monographs, and book chapters and was twice named one of the America's Best Doctors. 

Event Sponsors

Office of the President; Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences; Office of the Vice President for Research; The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute; The Women’s Network at VCU; VCU Hume-Lee Transplant Center; UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing); American Society for Public Administration, Central Virginia Chapter‌

 

 

My Masculinity Helps

FEBRUARY 10, 2015
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
University Student Commons
Ballroom B

Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Grace E. Harris

FEBRUARY 12, 2015
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
West Grace South Residence Hall, Room 1004a

Guests
Dr. Kate Slevin, Chancellor Professor of Sociology, Former Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, The College of William & Mary
Dr. Jim Hinterlong, Dean, VCU School of Social Work
Dr. Blue Wooldridge, Professor, VCU L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Join the Black Education Association as we honor the legacy of Dr. Grace E. Harris. Our invited guests will share their unique vantage point and valuable context for helping us celebrate the contributions  Dr. Harris has made to VCU, to the profession of social work, and to higher education at large.

RSVP is NOT required but is kindly requested to bea@vcu.edu.

This event is open to the all members of the VCU community. (Light refreshments will be served.) 

Annual BEA Recognition Reception

APRIL 27, 2015
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
University Student Commons
Richmond Salons

The BEA Faculty Recognition Reception recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty during this academic year. This event highlights members who: have received distinguished university awards; have received an award/honor/recognition in a professional association/society; have been elected to office of a professional association/society; have been awarded external funding for a competitive grant; have received promotion and/or tenure; or have authored or edited a book released during this academic year.