Leticia Haynes, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity delivered the keynote address at the Women of Color Giving Circle’s annual graduates celebration. Each year, the celebration honors high school graduates of color in Berkshire County. Dennis Powell, President of the Berkshire County chapter of the NAACP, Linda Tyer, Mayor… Continue reading »
Leticia Haynes, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, presented at the YWCA’s Capitol Hill briefing, Women of Color Leading Change: Policies that Break Down Barriers and Open Opportunities. The briefing featured women of color leaders from the corporate/business, education, nonprofit, and public service sectors. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman who… Continue reading »
Annie Valk, Associate Director of Public Humanities, and four students traveled to New York City to attend the annual conference of OHMAR, Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The students all are enrolled in HIST371, Oral History: Theory, Methods, and Practice, in which they are conducting interviews and research related to… Continue reading »
VaNatta Ford, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, and Ngonidzashe Munemo, Associate Dean for Institutional Diversity and Equity and Associate Professor of Political Science, participated in the Liberal Arts Diversity Officers consortium (LADO) trip to Howard University. During the trip, Ford and Munemo discussed building a career at a liberal… Continue reading »
The College is pleased to announce that Yvonne Bungei (Williams College ’17) is the recipient of a Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship. The Fellowship funds Bungei to undertake a project in Eldoret, Kenya, her hometown, from June-August 2017. The project, Improved Reproductive and Sexual Health For Peace, aims to address… Continue reading »
Mérida Rúa, Professor of Latina/o and American Studies, Chair of Latina/o Studies Program, participated in the Liberal Arts Diversity Officers consortium (LADO) / Creating Connections Consortium (C3) trip to the University of Chicago. During the visit Rúa discussed Faculty Development and Support at Liberal Arts Colleges and Social and Intellectual… Continue reading »
During the C3 summit, The Transformative Power of Race in the Academy: Measuring Change, Charting Futures, faculty, students and administrators from institutions from across the country will gather to participate in discussions and panels as we think critically about issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in the academy. This year’s… Continue reading »
Molly Magavern, Director of Special Academic Programs and Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science attended the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Conference in New York March 29-31, 2017. At the conference, titled, Diversifying the Faculty, Magavern facilitated a Coordinators’ Targeted Conversation and Roberts… Continue reading »
Leticia Haynes, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, delivered the keynote address at the Males of Color Policy Conference hosted by the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of 68 of the nation’s largest urban school systems. Haynes’ talk was titled, Educating Men of Color in the… Continue reading »
Approximately 20 students from the college participated in a Black history tour of Washington, D.C. During the tour, the students visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, National Museum of American History, National Museum of the American Indian, and the… Continue reading »
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