Wednesday, February 10
6:00–8:00 PM
Marvin Auditorium

The chancellor presents “Preparing for Life After High School.” Gray-Little also speaks about her experience with youth and her new role at KU. This event is cosponsored with Golden City Sertoma.

Bernadette Gray-Little is the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas, a post she assumed August 15, 2009. Prior to coming to KU, she was at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she served as a professor of psychology before being named to several top administrative posts, including executive vice chancellor and provost.

Gray-Little has identified enhancing undergraduate education, raising KU's already high scholarly profile, and securing the resources needed for students and the university to succeed as three of her initial goals for KU.

A native of Washington, North Carolina, she and her husband Shade Keys Little have two children and one grandchild.

Bio from: http://chancellor.ku.edu/about/index.shtml

Chancellor Gray-Little's favorite books by African-American authors

Books of fiction:
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
August Wilson: The Piano Lesson; King Hedley II

Non fiction:
Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
W. E. B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk
E. Franklin Frazier: The Negro Family in the United States
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks
James McBride: The Color of Water