Connections 

A monthly digest of opportunities, resources, and news you can use 


Friday, January 20, 2023

The B.O.S.S. (Blow Off Some Steam) event from SALON kept students active, energized, and in community with each other through Fall Finals. Learn more about SALON and attend a Friday meeting.

What's up next


January 20

Proposal Deadline: Diversity and Inclusion Symposium 2023


January 25

Black Faculty Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Ruha Benjamin


January 26

Fireside Chat with Ruha Benjamin (Students only)


February 8

EDI Book Club: Disability Visibility


February 15

UAMA Recovery/Repair Art Workshop


February 16

Creative Pathways to Servingness through the Arts Webinar


March 16 – 17

Diversity and Inclusion Symposium 2023: Rise Together


April 14

Proposal Deadline: Event Co-sponsorship & Curriculum Innovation Grants

Share your powerful ideas and innovations

RISE TOGETHER by expanding our collective knowledge, strengthening our resilience, and deepening our capacity for compassion. The University of Arizona Office of Diversity & Inclusion welcomes faculty, staff, and graduate students to submit a proposal to present at the 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Symposium by today, January 20, 2023.


Learn more >

We're welcoming Dr. Ruha Benjamin to campus

Black Faculty Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Ruha Benjamin on “Viral Justice: How we grow the world we want," January 25-26, 2023. A professor of African American studies at Princeton University, Ruha Benjamin writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.


Register to attend >

Tune in to the Arts and Wellbeing Playlist 

When we are deeply connected to other people, one of the great things that happens is that we’re more able to listen to them, we’re more able to give them the benefit of the doubt, and that makes a dialogue possible.” -- Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World.

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Land Acknowledgment


We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.