The Black Alumni Society is incorporating two professional development opportunities for alumni and undergraduates. Professional Development Certificates will be available. Please check with your employer to see if the following topics qualify for your BAS Reunion Registration to be paid or partially paid for professional development.

Black Alumni Society Reunion: Friday, April 17, 2015

Navigating Your Career like an Alumni Hog

Empowering Women: Dreamers Dream; Doers Put Them into Action

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Working Lunch)

Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House

Fayetteville, AR

Welcome and Empowerment Kickoff:

Latonya Foster, Walmart Stores, Inc., 2015 – 2017 BAS President Elect

  • Living Your Dreams (lecture and a workshop)                                                                               Shun Strickland, Motivational
  • Bridging Your Dreams With Your 8 to 5                                                                                          Tracy Rowan, Tyson Foods and Entrepreneur
  • Spirituality in the Work Place                                                                                                             Jacinda Smith, Procter & Gamble, Women of WOW,                                                                     St. James Missionary Baptist Church
  • How to Bloom Where You’re Planted                                                                                         Ulanda Terry, Tyson Foods (Lunch Key Note Speaker
  • Unmasking Your Potential                                                                                                                    Brittany Simmons, Kraft Foods, Inc.

Black Male Leadership Consortium
Friday, April 17th: 9:45 a.m. –        John L Colbert, BAS President, Facilitating

Law School

  • 10:00 a.m. John L Colbert, President of BAS will kick of the Black Male Leadership Consortium and gives the welcome.
  •  10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Judge Wendell – Seminar
  • 11:00 – Noon Black Male Leadership Consortium Panel: Education, Career

Airic Hughes, Introduces Dr. Donaldson

Dr. Charles W. Donaldson (Retired) University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Panel Facilitator

  •   John L Colbert, Association Superintendent for Elementary Education

Fayetteville Public School District, Black Alumni Society, President

  • Victor Wilson, CSI Holsters, President, Director
  • Rashad Delph, Tyson Foods, Inc., Director Talent Branding, Pipeline Strategy, & Global Mobility
  • Dr. Calvin White, University of Arkansas African American Studies
  • Nicholas Glover, Kraft Foods, Inc., Business Development Specialist
  • Paul D. Adams, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Noon – 12:45 p.m. Lunch – African American Studies Center

Law School

  • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Dr. Lonnie Williams: Scars Only Show Us Where We Have Been… They Don’t Dictate Where We Are Going