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Disability Awareness Month Programming Brings Focus to Key Issues
October is Disability Awareness Month, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has partnered with the Disability Cultural Center and the Center for Disability Resources to offer programs that highlight key issues impacting the disability community. The virtual programming, which…
Equity Educational Workshops Offered by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) is now offering equity educational workshops on a monthly basis for students, staff and faculty. The workshops will offer participants a more thorough understanding of equity and its impact and how to be…
Panelists to Discuss Aktion T4 and Contesting the Erasure of Disability History During Virtual Event Oct. 18
Three queer Jewish disabled writers and artists each discuss their work on Aktion T4, a prime crucible of disability history, during a Zoom virtual event on Monday, Oct. 18, from 3-4:15 p.m. ET. Aktion T4 was a eugenics project in…
Faculty Professional Development Series 鈥楳oving the Needle鈥 Toward DEIA
At her core, Melissa Luke says she is a 鈥渃onsummate scientist practitioner鈥 who prefers to rely on research and data to inform her work. So when the division of Faculty Affairs in the Office of Academic Affairs asked Luke and…
BioInspired Institute Partners With Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The BioInspired Institute focuses on leading-edge research in materials and living systems and trains students at the undergraduate and graduate level. When the United States faced a reckoning on racism and structural inequities, BioInspired鈥檚 faculty and staff asked, 鈥淗ow can…
Co-Chairs, Search Committee Appointed to Identify the Next Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the members of the search committee charged with identifying 黑料不打烊鈥檚 next chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO). Co-chairs of the committee are Cerri A. Banks 鈥00, G鈥04, G鈥06, vice president of student success and…
Meet Gretchen Ritter: 7 Questions to Get to Know 黑料不打烊’s New Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Gretchen Ritter was named vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer in June 2021 after a competitive global search. As she begins her tenure at 黑料不打烊, we asked her a few questions to help the community get to know…
Graduate School BIPOC Alliance Reflects on First Event, Plans Programming
The Graduate School鈥檚 new initiative for building community, networks and a sense of welcome in support of graduate students who self-identify as Black, Indigenous or other persons of color kicked off the year with an event featuring a panel and…
Discovering Intersectionality and Celebrating Hope with Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month
The campus community is invited to the annual celebration of Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month (LHHM), celebrated nationally between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. Hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) in close partnership with the LGBTQ Resource Center and…
BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award for Southeast ADA Center to Advance Understanding of Disability Rights, Responsibilities
For the third time in 15 years, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million grant to advance and support understanding of rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through its Southeast ADA…