The annual MEEC Member Conference and Vendor Showcase is March 28, 2019 at Martin’s West on Dogwood Road, Baltimore, MD. This year is the 11^th annual conference. 

This one-day Conference/Showcase is designed to explore new technologies and best practices and to educate Members about the many resources and opportunities that are available.

More information is available here:  http://meec-edu.org/events/meec-member-conference-and-vendor-showcase/

Maurice Berger's RACE STORIES essay, "50 Years After Their Mugshots, Portraits of Misississpi's Freedom Riders" was included in this year end article of note. Hundreds of black and white volunteers descended on Southern bus and train stations. The Freedom Riders "occupied segregated waiting areas, lunch counters, and restrooms in an attempt to compel the federal government to do what local authorities would not: enforce a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared discrimination in interstate public transportation illegal."

From the New York  Times: "Tig Torres, a high school junior, has a true crime podcast. Its purpose: To discover the true identity of the Lit Killer, the well-read murderer who terrorized Tig’s hometown, Hollow Falls, a decade ago. Trouble is, the Lit Killer is listening in. And he or she wants Tig on permanent hiatus. This never happens to Sarah Koenig! A digital-native Nancy Drew bristling with wit, snark and vocal fry, Tig is the creation of comics writers Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher. Each episode (there are six in the first season of “Lethal Lit”) is structured as a podcast within a podcast as Tig and her classmates narrate their investigations, searching for clues in battered copies of “Lord of the Flies” and “The Great Gatsby.” Call it nerd-pride noir. The vocal talent is variable, but the writing is savvy, the nods to genre are droll and the cliffhangers — don’t go into the abandoned amusement park, Tig! — just about unbearable." — ALEXIS SOLOSKI

Preminda Jacob, visual arts, writes about the counterintuitive effects of artists destroying or damaging their work in her story "Banksy and the tradition of destroying art". The story originally published in The Conversation also ran in Salon, The Wire, The Raw Story, artsHub, Irish Examiner.

In an opinion piece in Frieze, James Smalls, professor and chair of visual arts department, analyzes how Beyoncé and Jay-Z exploit Western Art History to ask who controls Black bodies. He writes on the musicians takeover of the Paris museum and what its says about art, race and power, describing the potency of the Carters's contemporary message.

Join Microsoft, Dataprise, and Coppin State as they share best practices on how IT Leaders in education are formulating their cloud strategy. Learn action steps you can take in the near term to optimize efficiency, enhance security, and maximize your cloud investment.

We will provide breakfast and coffee. All you need to bring is yourself and your insights! No laptops necessary.

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Where:

Coppin State Science and Technology Center

Room 120

2500 W North Ave

Baltimore, MD 21202

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