Black w88 online game Month: advancing education, advancing democracy
University Diversity and Inclusion Officer Eloisa Gordon-Mora talks about Black w88 online game Month, democracy and the new Diversity, Equity and Democracy Series
Black w88 online game Month is, among other events, an occasion to reflect on our w88 online game and the nature of our democracy. As a republic, the U.S. is a 244-year-old country, but not a very old w88 online game. Some social-science analysts would say that in terms of approximating a fuller, participatory democracy, it dates only to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What the decades following that legal democratic advancement has taught us is that a robust, inclusive, and diverse democracy requires of access and capacity for involvement of all different socio-economic, racial/ethnic, and cultural sectors, a need that is premised on access to sound information and w88 online game.
As an institution of higher-learning—and even further, following our land-grant, mission-inscribed mandate of recognizing and embracing the critical importance of diversity in preparing students for global citizenship—we understand our public educational mandate as also educating on effective civic and democratic engagement. As part of this educational commitment, we need to confront the harmful histories and narratives that sustain different forms of oppression and challenge democratic co-existence. We know that racism is at the heart of the most troubling aspects of our American w88 online game and an ongoing, consistent challenge to our democratic aspirations.
Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) is initiating the Dialogue, Equity and w88 online game Series, a series of panel discussions, guest speakers, workshops and teach-ins this spring. We will lead the series with a special event to commemorate Black w88 online game Month titled, "What follows a commitmentto ending systemic racism?" and hosted by Professor Kenya Minott. We invite you to join the D&I team and President Sandoval, on February 18th at 3:30 pm, to launch the educational series.
Professor Minott has over twenty years of teaching experience as a tenured sociology professor with the College of Southern w88 online game. She was trained to be a dismantling-racism facilitatorthrough the Western States Center in Portland, Oregon and Race Forward in Chicago, Illinois, and has led over 30 training sessions for grassroots organizers, college students, labor groups, government employees, and non-profit organizations throughout the Midwest and Western regions.
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