Today is the last day to register for our April DEI community book group read: Judy Heumann's new memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.

Book group meetings meet via Zoom on Fridays at 12:00 noon on the following dates: April 16, April 23, and April 30. (Please do not register if you are unable to attend at least two of the three scheduled meetings.)

Dr. Robert Bullard - the Father of Environmental Justice - speaks with John Carroll University about how climate change is the defining global environmental justice, human rights and public health issue of the twenty-first century.

The most vulnerable populations in the United States and around the world will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks because of where they live, their limited income and economic means, and their lack of access to health care.

Professor Bullard’s presentation will focus primarily on the U.S. and the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change “hot-spot” zones and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies. He will offer a framework for dismantling systemic racism and policies and practices that create, exacerbate and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability.

Contact Salomon Rodezno at srodezno@jcu.edu with questions or accommodation requests.

Video: Learn more about Dr. Bullard.

Join Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies, Dr. Zeki Saritoprak, and JCU students Jannat Ali '23, Sara Abu-ukkaz '23 and Abdullah Ali '23 for a panel discussion about their experiences at John Carroll.

Join the panel Wednesday, 4/21 using Zoom ID 942 7263 6436.

For more information contact Kathleen Sardon in the Office of Campus Ministry:

ksardon@jcu.edu.

Sponsored by the Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, and Campus Ministry.

Professor Lori Gruen gives the Annual Don Shula Lecture in Philosophy this year. Professor Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and is a leading scholar in Animal Studies and Feminist Philosophy. Her work in practical ethics and political philosophy focuses on issues that impact those often overlooked in traditional ethical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, incarcerated people, and non-human animals.

Students in the JCU AmeriCorps cohort have organized a Social Justice in Action webinar series for the month of April with local speakers on topics of homelessness and housing, sustainability, and racial justice. The final webinar in the series, April 29, features our own Salo Rodezno, Director of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. Click on the flyer for more information and Zoom link.

Twenty-five national and international sororities, members of the National Panhellenic Conference, or NPC, an umbrella organization that governs the policies and practices of the sororities, are planning to meet Saturday to decide whether to follow Delta Phi Epsilon and vote to approve an amendment permitting the member sororities to change their definitions of “woman,” to ensure nonbinary people are welcome in their organizations.

If passed, the amendment would mark a radical departure from the sororities’ original frameworks and foundations, which are based in womanhood and women’s empowerment. The organizations have hundreds of chapters on college campuses nationwide that are known as women-only groups, with expectations and traditions rooted in stereotypical feminine ideals.