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Diversity Dispatch: Have a Diverse Fall!


“Our mission is to educate and prepare diverse learners to achieve scholarly, professional, and individual success within a local and global context,” according to the MCC mission statement. Many of the MCC events planned for this fall illustrate how integrally diversity has become part of the fabric of our college community.

•           Thursday, Sept. 26, 12:30 PM (Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Monroe B)) -

What's in a Hoodie?: A Discussion on Race in America – The George Zimmerman verdict brought out some challenging assumptions about race in America and started a new national discussion. This program will take a close look at the hidden bias that often goes unspoken in our society and surfaces in unexpected ways. Special guests include Rochester Chief of Police James Sheppard; the Reverend Lawrence Hargraves, Pastor of Outreach Ministries, Asbury First Church; and MCC Professors Jonathan Iuzzini and Natasha Christensen; with Professor Karen Morris as moderator.

•           Monday, Sept. 30, 3:00 PM (reservations were required by Tues., Sept. 24) -

Dr, Alice Holloway Young's 90th Birthday Tea – Dr. Alice Holloway Young has had a profound impact on education in Rochester and Monroe County for over fifty years. As a pioneer African-American educator in the Rochester City Schools for four decades, Dr. Young was among the district’s first African-American teachers and the first African-American to hold the titles of reading specialist, vice principal, and principal. A founding trustee of Monroe Community College, its chair from 1978 to 1998, and currently trustee emerita, she provided leadership for MCC to become a premier institution. The MCC residence halls and the Faculty Internship Program are named for Dr. Young.

•           Saturday, Oct. 5, 10:00 AM (Samuel J. Stabins Physical Education Complex, Building 10) -

7th Annual Walk for Water for South Sudan – Founded by Salva Dut, a former “Lost Boy” refugee from the Sudan and MCC alumnus, the nonprofit Water for South Sudan, Inc., drills wells in the new nation of South Sudan to provide safe water to its residents. The MCC Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Project sponsors this annual fundraising walk to benefit WfSS.

•           Thursday, Oct. 10, 12:30 PM (Room 4151 Damon City Campus) -

The Sociology Film Series at DCC presents "Blurred Lines, Clear Lines: Consent in a Rape Culture," which examines the controversial song and music video “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, juxtaposed with a feminist analysis of sexual consent in what many call a “rape culture” in the United States.

•           Monday, Oct. 14, 7:00 PM (Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Monroe A&B) -

Visiting Scholar Laurie Garrett, global health journalist and author, currently serves as Senior Fellow for Global Health for the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published the books I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks; Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health; and The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.

•           Thursday, Oct. 17, 9:15 AM (MCC Theatre, Bldg. 4) (free and open to educators, community and business leaders, and future innovators; registration required) -

“Beating the Odds: The Critical Role of Community Colleges in Preparing Students from All Backgrounds for Careers in STEM”– Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, focuses his research and publications on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He chaired the National Academies committee that produced the recent report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, and chairs the President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Time magazine named him one of America’s 10 best college presidents in 2009 and one of the “100 most influential people in the world” in 2012.

•           Thursday, Nov. 14, 6:30 PM (Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Forum)) -

22nd Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration with Susan Stein, author and performer of the one-woman theatrical play “Etty,” based on the 1941-1943 diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation.

Have a great fall!

This is part of a monthly series of articles from the Diversity Council about topics related to diversity and multiculturalism.

Debbie Mohr
Diversity Council (ETS: Libraries)
09/26/2013