| Who
is our Presenter?
Blane
Harding
Director
of Advising, Recruitment, and Retention for the College of
Liberal Arts
Colorado
State University
Blane
Harding serves Colorado State University
as Director of Advising, Recruitment, and Retention for the
College of Liberal Arts, Prelaw Advisor, and adjunct faculty
member for the Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity
(CASAE). He is the former coordinator of the Black Studies
program at CSU and has taught courses in African American
history, Black Studies, and Ethnic Studies for the past seventeen
years. In addition, he serves as Chair for the CASAE Advisory
Board, the Admissions Advisory Council, and as faculty representative
on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Blane also serves
as a retention faculty member with the Council for Opportunity
in Education which oversees the national TRio programs, and
he is involved in a variety of activities, workshops, and
multicultural training sessions for area schools and organizations.
He is the recipient of many honors and awards including: CSU
Minority Distinguished Service Award, College of Liberal Arts
Excellence in Teaching Award, CSU Alumni Association "Six
Best" Teacher Award, History Department Phi Alpha Theta Outstanding
Professor Award, Mortar Board "Rose", the Provost's Jack E.
Cermak Advising Award, the Athletics Department Excellence
in Education Award, and the Blanche M. Hughes Distinguished
Faculty/Staff Award.
Blane
has served NACADA as a Faculty member for the Academic Advising
Summer Institutes and as a member of the Summer Institute
Advisory Board. He has presented at a variety of NACADA
Regional and Annual Conferences, and in 2005 received the
NACADA Region 10 Conference "Best of Region" designation
for his presentation, The Changing Face of America.
He has presented and conducted workshops at various NACADA
events on topics such as Supporting the Achievement &
Success of At-Risk Students and Vital Signs: Blacks
in Higher Education.
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