2020 Summer/Fall Newsletter
We hope this newsletter finds you, your families and your communities safe and with support during these turbulent times. Despite multitudes of crises, we are resilient and continue to work towards a more equitable and inclusive university community.

In this issue you will find a sampling of summer's activities and work, and some fall plans. We hope to continue to join together in community in the ways we can in these days and offer each other support and care.
Summer
prepared by the Division of Equity and Inclusion
"In a time of world-wide stress and dislocation, we are writing to provide a reminder of the resources that are available on our campus to ensure equitable access and achievement for all."


UO receives
2020 INSIGHT Into Diversity 
L.A.C.E.* web pages
*©Yvette Alex-Assensoh 2013
Love:  Leading with kindness and reacting with patience.
Authenticity: Allowing your unique essence and true self to shine through.
Courage: Moving forward in the face of fear.
Empathy: Holding space for others.
Oregon Young Scholars Program took place online this summer, July 25 - Aug 5th. Thirty students registered from Eugene, Springfield, Roseburg, Wilsonville, Portland. Vancouver,WA and Los Angeles. These middle and high school students are from those communities that are most underserved in higher ed.

"Through these summer programs the UO affirms its commitment to provide support so all Oregon youth can pursue a college education, become active and well-rounded citizens and embrace their unique heritages and communities."
DEI's Center on Community and Diversity (CoDaC) offered summer Implicit Bias workshops. Stay tuned for workshops during the year.
Updates: Division of Equity and Inclusion
Welcome and Farewell
Welcome to Sugam Singh, Multicultural Academic Counselor, Asian, Desi and Pacific Islander Retention Specialist
Farewell and MANY thanks to Douglas Imaralu, CoDac Graduate Employee. We wish you much luck in all your future endeavors.
FALL
Latinx Heritage Month: Sept 15 - Oct 15
Look for student and staff testimonials, resources, info on new programs, and more on the Latinx Heritage Month story on the UO main page coming soon.
2020 CMAE
New Student Fall Retreat
The New Student Fall Retreat is designed for incoming first year and transfer students from underrepresented backgrounds.

  • For those on campus: small in- person gathering  on Oct 17,  12:30-2:00 pm.  
  • Unable to attend in person? Virtual gathering Oct 24, 1-2:00 pm
  •  Larger virtual event for everyone on Nov 14, 1-2 pm. 

Questions? Email cmae@uoregon.edu
Virtual CoDaC Writing Circles
CoDaC is ready to support your faculty research, writing, and sense of faculty community and support. Fall term circle schedule:

  • Mondays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • Mondays, 1-4 pm *parent/caregiver circle*
  • Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30 pm 
  • Wednesdays, 9 am – noon
  • Wednesdays, 2-5 pm
  • Thursdays, 2-5 pm   
  • Thursdays, 1-4 pm *parent/caregiver circle*
  • Fridays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

For more information and link to the Doodle scheduling poll, contact Lara Bovilsky at bovilsky@uoregon.edu.
OCTOBER
Celebrating 30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 75 years of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM).
Eight speakers are lined up for the 2020_21 virtual African American Workshop and Lecture series. We are also partnering with and providing support this year for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics 20th anniversary lectures for two fall events and once again, partnering with the School of Law for the Derrick Bell Lecture in February.

This year, DEI VP, Yvette Alex-Assensoh, will offer a one-credit course (fall and winter) “Making A Way Out of No Way: Resilience in the Black Experience” (Black Resilience) " organized around the African American Workshop and Lecture Series, drawing on the themes explored in the series.
Alondra Nelson
October 7, 4-5:30 p.m.
"The Social Life of DNA:
Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome"
In partnership with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Eric Holder 
October 20, noon
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
20th anniversary Keynote address
"Defending Democracy: A Conversation with Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015)".
Black Cultural Center one year anniversary

See their website for upcoming events and activities. Watch for a story this fall on the UO home page celebrating their the anniversary .
UO Black Alumni Network, Oct 3
Virtual Engagement Series Present
"When the Minority Rules the Majority: Getting out the Vote in an Age of heightened and targeted Voter Suppression."
I Am First event “ - First-generation students, faculty, and staff will be asked to submit information, a photo, and answer a few questions about being first-gen. Stories with be published to the blog.
  • September 30, 5–6:15pm. Interrupting Systems of Oppression in our Unions Sandra Lane and Paris Walker, AFSCME
  • October 7, 5–6:15pm, Understanding organized anti-union campaigns and sentiments by examining unionization in the 21 century, Daniel Ho-Sang, Yale University, and Sherman Henry, LERC
  • October 14, 5–6:15pm, Exploring Systemic Racism in Arbitration, Barbara Diamond, Diamond Law
  • October 21, 5–6:15pm. Toolbox Essentials for Creating Racial Justice, Donna Hammond, IBEW 48
In The Press
Check your mailbox and the AtO website.
Here are a few articles of interest that appeared recently
Staff Recommendations
“Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty” by Ana-Maurine Lara, UO assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies.
" At its heart is a fundamental question: How can we enable “queer : black” life in all its forms, and what would it mean to be “free : sovereign” in the twenty-first century?"
Without a Whisper, a film by Katsitsionni is the untold story of the profound influence of Indigenous women on the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Sansei and Sensibility: Stories by Karen Tei Yamashita
"Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.
“Your silence will not protect you.” 
Comedian and political provocateur W. Kamau Bell explores communities across America to understand the unique challenges they face.
Division of Equity and Inclusion