Diversity@NC State

Celebrate Black History Month 365 days of the Year!

Thanks to Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Americans have recognized and celebrated Black History since 1926. The Department of Multicultural Student Affairs would like to encourage you to participate in the many campus and community wide programs and celebrations this month. The calendar of events for the campus wide celebration is here. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

The College of Natural Resources Community for Diversity presents

African Americans in Higher Education

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
1:00-2:30 pm
1214 Jordan II

RSVP and more information: sdgrays@ncsu.edu

Cross Cultural Advising: Students of Color

(African-American, Native American, Latino/a, Asian, Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders)

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
10:00-11:30 am
211-D Park Shops

Sponsored by the Office of Advising Support, Information and Services (OASIS)

Future workshops:

Thursday, April 1st, 2010, 9:00-10:00 am, Talley Blue Room
Advising Students with Disabilities
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010, 10:00-11:00 am, Talley Green Room Advising students of Color: African American

Black Family Feud
Located in the African American Cultural Center
Washington Sankofa Room

Thursday, February 11, 2010
6:30 p.m.

Brought to you by Student Organization Challenge, Student Mentor Assoc. & Soc. of African American Culture

Click here for more information

Faculty, Staff, Artist Conversation: Collage Artist Eric McRay
The Diary of Eric McRay:
An Exhibition of Paintings On Canvas and Over Twenty CollagesWednesday, February 17, 2010 - 12:00 p.m.
Washington Sankofa Room and Art Gallery

this is it

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Vagina Monologues

...a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Wednesday, February 17 and Thursday, February 18
7:00 PM Witherspoon Campus Cinema

Tickets through February 16
Students $8 All others $15
Purchase tickets via Ticket Central - Tally Student Center 2nd Floor,
919-515-1100 or http://ticketcentral.ncsu.edu
No late seating.

The Friends of the Women Center (An NSCU Foundation Fund) Present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s
Click here for more information

Public Lecture

"Obligation to Govern and the State of Terror," Thursday, February 18, 4:30, Daniels Hall, Room 218.

Ekow Yankah (Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University)

Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

For Dr. Yankah's profile click here

What's Race Got to Do with It? Part II- Film and Discussion

Friday, February 19, 2010

Time: 12:15-1:15

Monteith Engineering Research Center (MRC) RM 313
Centennial Campus

"This film chronicles the journey of a diverse group of students participating in a 15-week intergroup dialogue program at U.C. Berkeley. It highlights an interracial dialogue and provides a window into the different attitudes and assumptions that young people hold about race and equality."

Please mark the following future viewing dates on your calendar:
March 26th
April 16th
May 14th
June 11th

Hosted by the Staff Senate Diversity Committee.

Cultural Studies Programs
Undergraduate Majors

Check these pages for courses, study abroad opportunities, lectures, and film series.

There are also minors in Native American Studies, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Japan Studies, and Italian Studies.

Moving from Dialogue to Action

Study Circles on Race and Race Relations
http://www.ncsu.edu/mdap/

Fall 2009 at Peace College & Shaw University
Spring 2010 at Peace College & Shaw University

Time and place details at http://www.ncsu.edu/mdap/register.html.

African American Cultural Center
2009-2010 Fall Program Calendar

Announcing the 2009-2010 Equal Opportunity Institute (EOI)

The EOI is a program designed to increase participants' awareness of equal opportunity issues and increase their effectiveness as employees or students. With over 250 graduates, the program is still making a difference on our campus. In these times of budget cuts, this is a program of excellence that provides an outstanding professional development opportunity free to NC State University faculty, staff and students. Visit the following web site for additional information and to apply: http://www.ncsu.edu/equal_op/eoi/

Time Out for Diversity

The Technician's annual report on diversity among the Technician staff and diversity of coverage in their reporting is now available online. The report looks at gender, student classification (year), academic college, and race.

2010 Equity Awards for Women

The Council on the Status of Women is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Equity Awards for Women. These individuals have been very effective in moving this campus forward in the areas of increasing the number of women faculty in roles in which women are traditionally underrepresented, and in improving the climate for women.

The 2010 Equity Awards for Women go to

Daniel L. Solomon, Dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Heidi Grappendorf, Assistant Professor of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management

Congratulations and our warmest words of appreciation to both Daniel Solomon and Heidi Grappendorf! They are leading campus efforts to push NC State forward toward a day of full equity for women.

Full story

The Southeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (SCUWP), a three-day conference for undergraduate physics majors in the southeastern United States, was held January 15-17, 2010.

SCUWP's goal is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with the opportunity to experience a professional conference, information about graduate school and professions in physics, and access to other women in physics of all ages with whom they can share experiences, advice, and ideas. The conference was sponsored by several institutions, including the NC State Physics Department and ODI.

Website. Photos.

Judy Kertész, Assistant Professor of History, is co-curator of “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas” – a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D.C.

The exhibit, which runs through next May, shines a light on the complex relationships between American Indians and African Americans throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The idea for the exhibit stems from museum visitors of mixed ancestry who told the museum they “didn’t see themselves” there. More

College of Textiles Newsletter:
The Diversity Report

Kristen Gore (BS ’09 Statistics and Meteorology)

was a 2009 recipient of the Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship. Through its Diversity Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation “seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties.” This fall, Gore began graduate school at Columbia University where she will pursue a PhD in statistics.

Diversity Library Online -- recent articles and books of note

Also visit the bricks and morter African American Cultural Center Reading Room - 2nd Floor of Witherspoon Student Center, inside the African American Cultural Center Gallery. Open 1-9 Mon - Thurs and 1-5 on Fridays.

TASK FORCE REPORTS

Hispanic/Latino Task Force Report - released 2/13/09
Military Veterans Task Force Report
Campus Culture Task Force Report