Winter turns to Spring 2022
DEI Newsletter
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Winter quarter classes will be over by the time you receive this. Signs of spring can already be found with blooms popping out from above and below.
We continue to move forward adopting to change and, hopefully, taking lessons with us from the last few years to find new ways of creating a more diverse, inclusive and equitable community.
We have much to look forward to in the spring, including the IDEAL climate survey where each employee will be able to contribute their voice to create a vision of the future for the university. We look forward to hearing from you, as well as seeing you at the many campus (in person and virtual) events and activities this spring.
We thank you for all you do and wish all a wonderful spring break.
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Winter Quarter Highlights
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2022 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commemoration and Awards Ceremony
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Did you attend any of the MLK events - virtual program with live chat, Eugene grab and go lunches, Portland watch party, others? We would truly appreciate any feedback via this short survey. Thank you.
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This year's Reach for Success was held virtually on March 10 |
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The Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence’s (CMAE) Reach for Success is the UO's primary visitation program for traditionally underrepresented 7th and 8th grade students.
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CONGRATULATIONS
to CoDaC
Search Advocacy Program
for receiving the
UO MLK Outstanding School/Department/
Committee Award
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The MCC executive board recently reconvened to discuss student unions and MCC updates.
The purpose of the MCC board is to have a governing body made up of union executive leaders that assist in decision making and leadership of the MCC while collaborating with other unions to develop meaningful programming for our BIPOC students.
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Leadership Enrichment Internship (LEI) |
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The LEI program kicked off in winter quarter and matched 10 undergraduate students with organizations including City of Eugene, NAACP, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Bigfoot Beverages, and more. Interns gain real-world experience and participate in weekly meetings and professional development workshops. |
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Student Staff Positions open at DEI's
Multicultural Center and
Campus and Community Engagement
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Karla Pérez-Young was CMAE’s Multicultural Academic Counselor and Latinx Retention Specialist for six years. She was a steady presence for our students, staff, and student staff. We are sad to see her go, but excited for her new position as Lundquist College of Business academic advisor. Congratulations!
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Winter Quarter Heritage Months |
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Getting Connected on Campus
by Bajanae Landrum, Class of 2022
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Anthony Trucks, BS ’08, is a former Ducks and NFL football player, and is now an author, coach, speaker, and podcaster.
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Black History Month 2022: “The Best of Humanity” by Malcolm Frierson (he/him), visiting assistant professor, Department of History
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Bridging the gap between racism, sexism, and discrimination: Sport as a Platform for Social Justice |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee and MCC Program Advisor, Jamar Bean |
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A Women’s History Month signature event with legendary Olympian Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee featuring the Diversity Initiative and the Sport and Wellness Initiative. |
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International Women's Day
March 8
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This video from Mobility Internatinal/ MIUSA features five delegates from this year's Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD). Learn about the impact they are making in their communities. Today and every day, we thank and honor all the disabled women activists and our allies around the world for being “Loud, Proud and Passionate!®” |
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William Darity & Kirsten Mullen
Reconstruction, Redress and Redistributive Justice
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2022 IDEAL Climate Survey
of University of Oregon Employees
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The university will be conducting a workplace climate survey to identify individual, unit-based, structural, cultural, and institutional factors that improve or worsen campus climate, so that those factors can be addressed through targeted interventions. |
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Survey will begin on April 11, 2022, run for approximately three weeks and end on April 29, 2022.
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Reclaiming Our Time:
IDEAL Grants
All faculty – TTF and NTTF –
eligible to apply
Deadline May 1, 2022
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These grants are particularly focused on providing support for faculty whose professional productivity has been disrupted because of ongoing dependent care issues; trauma related to the latest cycle of racial uprising, violence and turmoil; stress related to isolation; and bias and traumas related to LGBTQIA+, disability or other identities.
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March 25 to May 20
EMU Aperture Gallery
Reception in gallery:
April 28 | 7 pm
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An exhibition centered around a series of workshops held for UO students focusing on identity and misrepresentation through personal aesthetics. This project was led and curated by photographers and students, Malik Lovette and Kayla Lockwood. The exhibition documents multiple community conversations with UO students, documenting their experiences surrounding stereotyping.
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CSWS Noon Talks
Virtual Events
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Working Class Gay Dads: Queer Stories about Family and Work
Nathan Mather
Counseling Psychology
March 30
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A Feminist Approach to the Early Modern Literary Canon
Cornesha Tweede
Romance Languages
April 12
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Helping Mom and Helping the Community: Immigrant Youth’s Perspectives of the Future
Niki DeRosia Education Studies
April 27
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DisOrient Film Festival
April 1 - 10
“Emergence”—the 2022 hybrid festival with live and virtual events celebrating 17 years of uplifting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander stories and voices with a curated program including narrative and documentary features and short films, recorded Q&As, and virtual interactive events
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The Future We Need for Workers
and Our Democracy
Sarita Gupta
Vice President
Ford Foundation
21-22 Wayne Morse Chair
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March 30 | 5-6:30 pm
EMU | Redwood, Room 214
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DEADLINE: April 1, Noon
DEADLINE: April 8, Noon
For a project in Latinx and/or Latin American-related issues in any field
of study.
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Imagining Futures Lecture: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
April 5 | Noon | Virtual Event
The renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, story and song.
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May is Asian Desi Pacific Island
Heritage Month
Watch our website and social media for more information
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BE Magic with Daniel Eisen
April 26 | 5:30pm
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Daniel Eisen is a multiracial scholar from Hawaii, sociologist, and founder of @GroundedinMagic.His work merges his academic background and magic to support identity work that focuses on healing from and dreaming beyond oppression. |
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BE YOU with Jade Fox
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
May 17 | 5:30pm
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A comedian and content creator trying to stay dry in Portland, OR. For over 6 years she has been creating lifestyle and entertainment content geared toward LGBT audiences. |
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Take Back the Night
April 28 | 6 to 10 pm
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Take Back the Night is a yearly international protest aimed at raising awareness about the realities of Sexual and Domestic Violence on campus and in the community, both for Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence and those who want to support and bear witness in solidarity. |
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Imagining Futures Lecture: Charles Chavis, Jr.
May 17 | 6:30 pm
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Charles Chavis will be in conversation with Paul Peppis after a screening of HIDDEN IN FULL VIEW, a short film that introduces the story of the lynching of 23-year-old Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland in 1931.
Chavis is a historian and museum educator whose work focuses on the history of racial violence and civil rights activism and Black and Jewish relations in the American South, and the ways in which the historical understandings of racial violence and civil rights activism can inform current and future approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution throughout the world.
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Here are a few articles of interest that appeared recently
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Amber Starks, striving for a decolonial future
Having experienced oppression both as a Black and Native person, the alumna activist and community organizer—in residence with Common Reading—is impressing upon UO students the need to translate ideas into practice.
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A Spirit of Service
Young professionals, young mothers, and busy UO alums, Rachel Cushman BS ’10 and Carina Miller BS ’11 also find time to serve their Indigenous communities as elected leaders.
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Underground Railroad:
The Secret History
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"Narrated by actor-director Clark Johnson the four-part mini-series uses archaeology, cutting edge technology, and generations of insight to unlock some of the biggest mysteries surrounding this secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.."
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Jewish Multiracial Network
The Jewish Multiracial Network sets out to nurture and enhance Jewish diversity throughout the community, at large, via capacity development, community development, community empowerment, and social capital.
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors
by Kawai Strong Washburn
Folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation.Winner of the 2020 Pen Hemingway Award for Debut Novel..
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Gentefied
The Morales cousins scramble to save their grandfather's taco shop — and pursue their own dreams — as gentrification shakes up their LA neighborhood.
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Native Hope exists to address the injustice done to Native Americans.
We dismantle barriers through storytelling and impactful programs to bring healing and inspire hope.
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NCORE
May 31 - June 4
Portland, Oregon
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The 34th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education will return to an in-person format in Portland, Oregon - five days of conference sessions, networking, community outreach, and fun.
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“As We See It
A dramedy about three 20-somethings who share an apartment in Los Angeles that stars three lead actors who identify as autistic.
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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
"A triptych of stories set in 1893, 1993, and 2093 explore the fate of humanity, the essential power and sorrow of love, and the unique doom brought upon itself by the United States."
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Center for Antiracist Research |
A reading list on issues of race
Harvard faculty recommend the writers and subjects that promote context and understanding
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Center for Arab American Studies (CAAS)
The center encourages understanding of the history and experiences of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States.
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Fernland Studios
Fernland Studies offers opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color to care for our communities and landscapes in tandem through art and education.
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Remembering bell hooks and 'All About Love'
bell hooks, American author, professor, feminist, and social activist passed on December 15, 2021. Her work and her legacy will continue for generations.
In a 2000 NPR interview on hooks' book All About Love: New Visions she discusses how most people misunderstand love, the many forms it can take and how transformative and powerful real love can be in all spheres of life.
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