Support NSBE Week and its Collaboration with Controversy N Coffee

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Come hear from 5 panelists on their views regarding the state of diversity among WashU faculty.


The Coordinating Council for Diversity Initiatives:


The CCDI, chaired by the Special Assistant to the Chancellor, has been charged to assist the University in the development of a strategic plan for enhancing diversity, provide recommendations for institutional practices, policies, and programs that foster diversity and equity, and promote institutional diversity initiatives campus-wide.


Panelists:
Anne Marie Knott: B-School
Consuelo Wilkins: Medical School
Cindy Grimm: Engineering School
Leah A. Merrifield: Special Asst. to Chancellor for Diversity Initiatives.
Luis Zayas: Brown School of Social Work

An Opportunity to Collaborate with GlobeMed

Another cool opp that has come our way. We may discuss Thursday (pending results of tomorrow's legislation!) :D

My name is _____ and I am the current president of GlobeMed Wash U. A few years ago, the UN named February 20^th the “World Day of Social Justice”. In designating this day the World Day, the UN aimed to recognize the need to bring together the efforts of all members of the community in promoting access to social well-being and justice for all, no matter in what capacity. 

This year, GlobeMed Wash U is trying to bring World Day of Social Justice to the forefront of students’ minds here on campus. 

On Friday, February 19^th, we will host an on-going awareness event during the day and a slam/mixer event for all interested Social Action groups in the evening. The primary goal of these events will be to bring attention to World Social Justice Day on main campus. On Saturday, February 20^th, we will host a webinar, “Health and Social Justice” featuring Laura Turiano, a physician who currently serves on the global coordination group of People’s Health Movement (PHM) Right to Health and Health Care Campaign.

I wanted to invite Connect 4 to collaborate with us on this event. While GlobeMed primarily fights for global health equity, we recognize that health issues cannot be solved without solving many other social justice issues. This is a unique opportunity for various groups with different goals to band together and share our experiences with one another.

Please let me know if you would be interested in collaborating/participating. If you are interested, I will send more details and we can work together to make this an amazing event.

Thanks!

GlobeMed Wash U President

Pre-Semester Meeting, January 21, 2010

Big props to Betel for such succinct notes. Awesome. Also, great thanks to Aiko and Salma for joining us!

Connect4 1/21/10

·  Grace is still doing PR with Brittany

·  One of the main goals of this year is to make sure we hold ourselves and others accountable for our initiatives.

·  Activities Fair is on Wednesday from 4:30-6:40

·  Legislation: there will be a new draft sent out by next week

o   Main goal is to keep communication open

o   Meeting with non-C4 Ehi and Nate Ferguson to discuss the legislation

·  Ezell is in process of getting things in order to get the Diversity pre-o started

o   Sign up sheet passed around for those who want more info

·  Camille and Lexi will be starting “Operation Understanding WashU

o   Discussions and programming to discuss various issues

o   Info session on February 8^th and 9^th

·  Andreas: Need More Players

o   Get a group of people to crash a spot on campus to allow people to meet each other

o   First event will be at Activities Fair. Meet there and discuss what they’re going to do.

o   Only issue is with the tshirts. Probs do a community

·  Need a Roundtable Committee/ someone to actually head it also

o   Even if you don’t have experience, its ok.

·  Culture Shock

o   Brought up by Hana Schuster

o   First event is LNYF brought by AAA.

o   Next event is Black Anthology.

·  Brown Bag Lunches

o   A way to strengthen our relationships with our faculty and how we support each other

·  Brown Star

o   Sathya will be coming to WUSTL

·  We hope to have more bonding events and start it off with a retreat on the 31^st.

·  Hope to have C4 work with the new Dean Mcleod’s Scholarship

·  Thurtene: it’s still tentative if we want to do it or not. It is a busy month though as far as transitions go.

·  Leadershape: during spring break.

Opportunity with NSBE to Discuss the Lack of Diversity in Faculty

Alice Ndikumana sent the following request to student group leaders in efforts to coprogram an event to discuss the lack of diversity amongst the faculty at WashU. De will be meeting with her next week to learn more about this endeavor.

My name is Alice Ndikumana. I am a junoir biomedical engineering student, and the programs chair for the National Society of Black Engineers. Every year we host a NSBE Week in the Spring Semester. This year the theme of our week is inspiring and educating Black engineers. Along that theme, one of our main events is an event discussing the lack of a diversity amongst the faculty at our university. The goal of our event is, firstly, to answer the following questions: 1. How racial/ethnic representation among Washington University in St. Louis compare to similar intstitutions? 2. What is our university doing to increase these numbers? 3. What are the main obstacles we face? Secondly, we hope to educate our student body about what it takes to become an professor and what the career entails. 

I am hoping that your membership may be interested in attending our event and that you may interesting in co-programming this event with us. If you are interested please respond to this email we can set up a time for us to meet and bounce around ideas.