MLK Day to mark start of campus Power of Community initiative
A campuswide initiative to build community resilience, foster a greater sense of connection and promote a healing climate among students, faculty and staff following a historic and challenging 2020 will debut Jan. 18 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The Center for Inclusion and Social Change within the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement (ODECE) will lead the semester-long initiative, The Power of Community: Courage, Healing and Unity.
Led by the Center for Inclusion and Social Change, the campus will also introduce the I AM campaign and other related events, programming and engagement opportunities.
鈥淎s we begin this new semester and this new year, our hope is that we can come together as a community to build our collective resilience and learn from our intersectional experiences in the face of adversity and ongoing challenges,鈥 said Dyonne Bergeron, assistant vice chancellor for inclusion and student achievement. 鈥淐ritical to fostering deep connections and meaningful engagement is to first express empathy for each other as we grow together as a campus community and explore who we aspire to be as scholars, colleagues, classmates and individuals.鈥
Between January and April, the campus will offer a series of events and programming focusing on the themes of courage (in January and February), healing (in March) and unity (in April).
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