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Category: Diversity and Inclusion

Employee Belonging Focus Groups

Belonging for Lawrence University: denotes a feeling of connectedness and value,  where individuals are respected and celebrated to help enrich the campus community and all its constituents. 

In an effort to learn what our campus community needs from an employee standpoint, we need to hear from you!  The I.D.E.A.S. Division, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, will be hosting a series of focus groups to hear from our campus community.  If you are interested in sharing your experiences as an employee at Lawrence,  please register your interest in attending a focus group session. We look forward to hearing from our campus community.

Interactive Talk: Disability Advocacy with Dr. Petra Watzke

Wednesday April 3, 2024 | 5-6:30 p.m.
Warch 325 – Pusey OR via Zoom

This talk examines what disability advocacy can look like on the LU campus. Audience members are invited to share their own experiences to affirm the centrality of this topic for the LU community. Refreshments will be served.

RSVP

Disability Advocacy Talk Poster

Dr. Kenny E. Yarbrough Office Hours

We invite students to come connect with Dr. Kenny E. Yarbrough, Vice President for I.D.E.A.S. Division.

Come have a casual conversation about your experience at Lawrence and what we can do to support our diverse student body.

When:

  • Tuesday, April 9 | 3:30-5 p.m.
  • Thursday, May 2 | 3:30-5 p.m.
  • Monday, May 27 | 3:30-5 p.m.

Where: Diversity & Intercultural Center

Disability Awareness Week: April 1-5

On behalf of Accessibility Services and the I.D.E.A.S Division we invite you, the Lawrence faculty, staff, and students in joining us in embracing diversity and celebrating Disability Awareness Week.

The Disability Awareness events for the week will be a time to come together and create a community where everyone is valued and respected for who they are.

Monday April 1, 2024
Disability Awareness Tabling
11-1 p.m. & 4:30-6:30 p.m. – Warch Lobby

Wednesday April 3, 2024
Interactive Talk: Disability Advocacy w/ Dr. Petra Watzke
5-6:30 p.m. – Warch 325 – Pusey OR via Zoom

This talk examines what disability advocacy can look like on the LU campus. Audience members are invited to share their own experiences to affirm the centrality of this topic for the LU community. Refreshments will be served.

RSVP by March 28.

Friday April 5, 2024 – Wear your Disability Awareness T-shirt
Sensory Pop-Up Experience
12-4 p.m.

Cabaret

Saturday, April 6 | 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 7 | 4 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

Cabaret is free for Lawrence students! Tickets can be purchased at the Box Office.

  • Adult – $6
  • Senior – $4
  • Faculty/Staff – $4

Cabaret is Lawrence International’s flagship event. It is an annual celebration of cultures, traditions, clothes, performances, and cuisine from across the globe, and it has been going on for over 40 years. It brings together a plethora of different cultures represented on campus (which promotes integration among the cultures), and fosters a positive social dynamic among LI and Lawrence community members.

A Cabaret is a unique event that promotes an understanding of diversity in Lawrentians and members of the greater community. Many students from numerous countries prepare for months to participate and get a chance to show their cultures.

Any student can participate in any performance and can join the fashion show to represent their own or another country.

Every year, faculty members, friends families, their children, and other community members participate and get a first-hand glimpse of other cultures.

Community Conversations

Critical Race Theory and the Interest Divergence Dilemma

Thursday, March 7 | 7 p.m.
Warch Campus Cinema

The Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Sustainability Services at Lawrence University presents the 2023-24 Community Conversations Series: Tales of Challenge, Resistance, and Persistence.

In this talk, Dr. Victor Ray draws on two central critical race theory concepts: racial progress narratives and interest convergence to explain the current backlash. Ideas from critical race theory can explain the recent uproar over this insurgent body of knowledge, in opposition to mainstream notion of inevitable progress, critical race theorists see racial progress as fragile and contingent. And some political actors are pushing the United States toward a period of interest divergence. As some white Americans increasingly see their interests as fundamentally different from those of their nonwhite fellow citizens.

Dr. Ray is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow in Government Studies at The Brooklyn Institution, and a Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Community Conversations Poster

Disability Awareness Week T-shirts

We invite you, the Lawrence faculty and staff, in joining us in embracing diversity and celebrating Disability Awareness Week.

The Disability Awareness events for the week will be a time to come together and create a community where everyone is valued and respected for who they are.

If you would be interested in wearing a t-shirt, please complete the Form by March 15.

It is our goal to have you, our Lawrence faculty, and staff, provide support by wearing our Disability Awareness t-shirt on Friday April 5.

Please note that these items are limited!

On behalf of Accessibility Services and the I.D.E.A.S Division

Women in Business Panel Discussion

Tuesday, March 5 | 5:30-7 p.m.
Virtual Link
Message ID: 490 300 1737

VIRTUAL EVENT – Join our incredible panelists as they delve into their experiences as women in business. Learn about the nuances and impacts of gender and implications for the future of women in business.

This panel features:

  • Dr. Claudena Skran, Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at LU
  • Karen Bussone, Professor of Practice at LU
  • Nilimini Hecox ’98, Global Real Estate Advisor at LIV Sotheby’s International Realty
  • Dr. Tiffany Tardy, President & CEO of PEARLS for Teen Girls, Inc.

Presented by I.D.E.A.S.

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