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UCEA Presidential Lecture Series
5th Annual UCEA Presidential Spring Lecture
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
1:00 PM ET
A Career Informed by Personal Enlightenment & Social Impact:
A Focus on the Education of Black People
Kofi Lomotey, Western Carolina University
In this autobiographical discussion, Dr. Lomotey will speak of the underwhelming academic, social, cultural, and spiritual success of Black children in US schools as an intractable dilemma. He will describe the development of his passion for the education of Black children going back more than 50 years. He will chronicle his related productive social justice-oriented experiences as an undergraduate at Oberlin College, as a graduate student at Stanford and as an academic during the past 40 years. Lomotey will highlight the importance of mentoring, emphasizing the extensive support he has received over the years and will describe--and stress the importance of--such connections. His presentation ends with several powerful lessons drawn from his experiences and highlights a moral and social imperative.