Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Passive ProgramTuesday, Jan. 19
Noon-2 p.m.
Intercultural Diversity Center (Ferguson 2100)
(Educational Engagement)
The Intercultural Diversity Center will host a PowerPoint featuring important facts and historical events surrounding the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday, Jan. 19
6 p.m.
(Educational Engagement/Cultural Exploration)
The Minority Student Research Symposium (MSRS) Information Session with the All of Us Research Program invites all underrepresented minorities (URMs) to participate in completing a research project using data from the All of Us Research Hub and presenting their work in a virtual poster session during a symposium in Spring 2021. Greater participation of all racial and ethnic groups is needed in biomedical research. URMs represent over 30% of the U.S. population but less than 9% of STEM PhD members and 7% of all physicians. Diversification of the biomedical workforce will help address the critical need the United States faces to reduce racial and ethnic health and health care disparities. In order to attend, please register by visiting http://bit.ly/AOUMSRS.
Friday, Jan. 22
Time to be announced
(Educational Engagement/Cultural Exploration)
In conjunction with the Intercultural Diversity Center, All of Us will host its Student Symposium Informational. Greater participation of all racial and ethnic groups is needed in biomedical research. URMs represent over 30% of the U.S. population but less than 9% of STEM PhD members and 7% of all physicians. This event has the potential to increase retention in undergraduate students and self-efficacy in research activity as well as influence the number of URMs that enter post-graduate and medical education.
For more information, contact Lilanta Bradley at ljbradley1@ua.edu.
Student Session: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 6 p.m. via Zoom
Faculty/Staff Session: Thursday, Jan. 28, noon via Zoom
(Educational Engagement)
The Division of Diversity, Equity and inclusion will kick off its Spring 2021 webinar series with “How to Be a Good Ally” facilitated by Dr. Mary A. Trujillo, a communication arts professor focusing on intercultural communication and conflict transformation and recipient of the inaugural MLKJ Award at Northpark University. Trujillo prepares individuals to examine the idea of community in context of urban, religious and international conflict. She is committed to restorative justice and nonviolence through teaching those to identify their own approaches to conflict transformation and apply their strategies to bringing peace. Register for this student webinar session at www.tinyurl.com/deiidcevents.
Thursday, Jan. 28
4 p.m. via Zoom
The First-Year Writing Program and the UA English Department Diversity Committee will host two Zoom sessions with Asao Inoue, professor and associate dean of Academic Affairs, Inclusion and Equity at Arizona State University. Inoue has authored and co-edited several articles, chapters and books on writing assessment, race and racism.
Session 1, Keynote Lecture: “What Does it Mean to Form an Antiracist Orientation to Teaching Writing,” will be Thursday, Jan. 28, 4-5:30 p.m. This talk focuses on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; disciplines’ logics and ways with words; and most professions’ expectations of language use. Inoue will discuss how higher education generally promotes literacy practices through assessment ecologies that are White supremacist, and defines an antiracist orientation toward teaching and assessing. The session will end with a Q&A period.
Session 2, Faculty Workshop: “Labor-Based Grading Contracts as Antiracist Classroom Writing Assessment Practice,” will be Friday, Jan. 29, 1-2:30 p.m. Participants will engage in three activities: (1) an interactive lecture that offers some theoretical background that leads to using labor-based grading contracts in writing classrooms; (2) a short period of Q&A; and (3) a mock classroom activity that introduces labor-based grading contracts to students in the first week of a writing class. Participants will leave the lecture and workshop with a sample labor-based grading contract and a handout with links to other materials online.
For Zoom links for these sessions, email fywp@ua.edu with the subject line “Keynote YES” and/or “Workshop YES.”
Thursday, Jan. 28
6 p.m. via Zoom
(Educational Engagement)
The Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will host its annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture featuring a keynote address from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, author of the book, “Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America.” Dyson will address the key themes of his book: the cultural and social aspects that have shaped the U.S. in regard to race, the genealogy of anti-blackness, and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Register here or click the flyer to the left and scan the QR code.
