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1999 CONFERENCE Women and Education in the New Millennium The conference "Women and Education in the New
Millennium," held
September 30 through October 2, 1999 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
was sponsored by Western Union International and the following donors: Dr.
Hassan Adamu, Wakilin Adamawa; Embassy of Nigeria, Howard University Ralph
Bunche International Center; Howard University Center for Urban Progress and
individuals.
The conference emphasized education as the backbone for social, economic and political development. It identified factors devastating to women such as lack of education, disabling/negative social attitudes, and differential financial constraints. These aforementioned constraints limit women’s aspirations. Thus the seminar examined ways and means of reforming traditional views to allow equity in access to quality education. Through the conference ACODI has set the stage to enhance awareness of the importance of education in human, institutional and community development. Speakers included: Ambassador Horace Dawson, Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; His Excellency Prince Abubakar Audu, Executive Governor of Kogi State; Dr. Bertha Koomson, Embassy of Ghana; Dr. Serara Mogwe, Embassy of Botswana; Dr. Mobolaji Aluko, Howard University; Edward Hayes, Jr., Hayes & Associates, Attorneys at Law; Mr. Joseph Saffel, International Business Development Services Ltd.; Mr. Sean Chrysostom, BB&T Bank; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, The World Bank; Ms. Ngozi M. Awa, Colela Group International, Namibia; Emmanuel Ike Udogu, Francis Marion University; Ms. Elizabeth Thomas, Academy for Educational Development; Professor Ilhan Izmirli, Strayer University; Dr. Kelechi A. Kalu, University of North Colorado; Ms. Deevia Bhana Pather, University of Durban Westville; Ms. Arsiyanti Ardie, University of Redlands; Ms. Patricia Bowen, University of North Colorado; and Chigozie F. Obi-Nadozie, Embassy of Nigeria. PROCEEDINGS EXCERPTS: Education and Community Development by His Excellency, Prince Abubakar Audu, Executive Governor of Kogi State, Nigeria
* Identifying common community needs; * Planning the strategies to address the specific needs; * Implementing the planned strategies; and * Evaluating the impact of the actions taken." The Role of Women in Africa's Economic Development by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ph.D.and Andrea Merrick "Inclusiveness and participation have become parts of the development lexicon. There is growing recognition that the inclusion of women in the development process can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction. These links are borne out in the African experience where gender inequalities in education and employment alone are estimated to have accounted for up to one-fifth of the difference in growth performance between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the pre-crisis East Asia region." Ethnicity, the State and the Issue of Nation-Building in Nigeria's Fourth Republic by Emmanuel Ike Udogu, Ph.D. "There is a tendency to assume the primary of the nation-state, and to assign universal legitimacy to its existence without ever elaborating the normative justifications for the validity of the nation-state. This is an inherited problem in LDCs (Less Developed Countries), where the problems of development are usually analyzed almost exclusively in national terms." Reducing Reproductive Health Barriers to Primary School Completion Among Kenyan Girls by Elizabeth Thomas "In many developing countries, girls do not receive the same educational opportunities as boys. Even when given the opportunity to be educated, they typically face formidable barriers to the completion of their studies. Many of the barriers that girls face in striving to stay in school are either directly or indirectly related to reproductive health, sexual behavior, and maturation. Some of the causes of school dropout in Kenya include early marriage, pregnancy, lack of gender-appropriate facilities in schools, low self-esteem, lack of money, harassment by male teachers and students and the low value placed on the education of girls by their parents and society overall." Mathematics and Atonal Music by Ilhan Izmirli "There are many reasons for writing a paper on the relation between mathematics and music. First and foremost can be traced back to the fact that one of the most profound, most universal, and most natural of all human reactions is the one evoked by the experience of beauty. Although beauty can be found in such diverse places as paintings, literature, natural landscapes, biological organisms, or the cosmos, and although it is not easy to determine what exactly awakens or stirs our sense of beauty, mathematics and music are often considered to be the most unadulterated forms of expressing it."
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"The process
of community development as a strategy for
integrated development involves four vital actions that can only be carried out
effectively by enlightened operators. These four levels of action are: