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AWARD-WINNING EDUCATOR, AUTHOR TO SPEAK AT HCC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

BRIDGEPORT – Award-winning educator and author Dr. William A. Howe will be the guest speaker at Housatonic Community College's International Festival April 27.

Dr. Howe is the founder and chairperson of the annual Connecticut Multicultural Education Conference, and is co-authoring a textbook on multicultural education called "Becoming a Multicultural Educator: Theory to Application." He also received an award from the "National Association for Multicultural Education" for achievement in 2000, and is mentioned in the "International Who's Who of Professionals" in 1998.

The festival, sponsored by HCC's Multicultural Club, also will include live Caribbean music and bongo players, ethnic food, a fashion show, student presentations, poetry, a quiz game, and prizes.

"The festival will let people learn from other cultures," said Multicultural Club President Ricardo Nogeuiro of Trumbull, a native of Zimbabwe As the world becomes smaller, he added, "more cultures are interacting with each other with new ideas,"

The Multicultural Club is made up of HCC students from Ecuador, Bulgaria, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, Nigeria, Yugoslavia, Ghana and Puerto Rico. This year, club members will be preparing dishes from their native lands.

The International Festival will take place in the college's Performing Arts Center between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. The free event is open to the public.

With an eight year old campus in the heart of Connecticut's largest city, Housatonic is one of the country's fastest growing public community colleges. Since it moved to the new downtown campus in 1997, Housatonic's enrollment has increased 77 percent. According to the most recent statistics released by the Washington D.C.- based American Association of Community Colleges, Housatonic was the Northeast's second fastest growing community college and its fastest growing in terms of full time students.

In response to increased enrollments and changing workplace needs both regionally and nationally, Housatonic has increased the number of programs offered from 43 to 63 since moving to its new campus.

The college is located in downtown Bridgeport one block from the Arena at Harbor Yard.