diversity events

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a Faculty Spotlight featuring Social Justice Institute Co-Directors Ayesha Bell Hardaway and Mark Chupp Tuesday, April 6, from 5 to 6 p.m. After opening remarks from Interim President Scott Cowen, Hardaway and Chupp will discuss...

This year, the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative (UDC) will host a two-day leadership program called Diversity Leadership Accelerator Saturday, April 17, and Sunday, April 18. The event will kick off with a keynote address by social justice educator Joey Oteng, who will present “Come If You Wan...

On Wednesday, April 7, from noon to 1 p.m., the Office of the Provost will host the fourth installment in the North Star Seminar Series. The event will feature Jonathan Holloway, a U.S. historian and 21st president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Holloway's talk is titled “Framing a...

Naomi Sigg and Harry Hawkins Join an affirming space for those within the APIDA community to share, process and stand together in solidarity. This APIDA Dialogue & Healing Space will be today (March 31) from 3 to 4 p.m. APIDA is a pan-ethnic classification that intentionally includes East Asians, ...

Join Damon S. Tweedy, author of Black Man, White Coat, for the Alan and Karen Krause College Mental Health Lecture. His talk, titled “Reflections on Race, Medicine and Psychiatry in the Year of COVID-19 and Nationwide Protests,” will explore the roles of medical education and the health care system ...

Join the African American Society for a discussion on “The Oversexualization and Demonization of Black People” Thursday, March 18, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. This discussion will address how those within the Black community are constantly demonized while being simultaneously oversexualized by the media. ...

Join the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity for the next spring Power of Diversity Lecture Series event, “Diversity in Academia: Challenges in the Era of COVID-19,” Thursday, March 18, at 3 p.m. Register for the lecture. The lecture, titled “Diversity in Academia: Challenges in t...

The Power of Diversity Lecture Series continues Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 3 p.m. with “How to Approach Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Lessons in Healing from the Biology of Wound Repair.” The lecture features speaker Scott Frank, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative H...

During the summer of 2020, both the Cleveland City Council and the County Council of Cuyahoga County passed resolutions declaring racism a public health crisis. They established citizen task forces to recommend strategies, policies and programs to implement at the city and county levels to advance r...

Camara Phyllis Jones will give a lecture titled “Racism Denial: The Silent Killer” Thursday, Feb. 18, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on naming, measuring and addressing the impacts on the health and well-being of the nation. She recently complet...