Black graduate students hold conference

The 12th Annual National Black Graduate Student Conference, in conjunction with UW–Madison, will be held at Madison’s Concourse Hotel March 29-April 2.

The conference will draw more than 400 participants from colleges and universities around the nation. It is sponsored by the National Black Graduate Student Association, founded in 1989 to improve the status of African Americans in higher education.

The conference sessions, which are all open to the public, will include keynote addresses, paper presentations by participants and roundtable discussions. Keynoters are Erroll Davis, president of Alliant Energy in Madison; filmmaker Yvonne Welbon; poet and essayist Nikki Giovanni; and Lawrence Bobo, professor of Afro-American studies at Harvard University.

For details on the conference program and registration, call (608) 265-3163 or check the conference Web site.