Equity

By Gali Laska, Talia Feldman-Schwartz, Abby Care, Andres Perez, and Amelia Zehnder for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This group worked alongside Under 3 DC to help strengthen their work as a whole. Under 3 DC is an organization that works to harness the voices of parents with young children to provide an equitable early childhood system.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award. You are welcome to post comments and questions below.

The Global Citizen Forum: Struggles, Strategies, and Solutions for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education, hosted by Drake University and University of KwaZulu-Natal, are calling for presentation proposals.

The conference brings educators, students, and scholars from many fields to discuss ways to create a more diverse higher education field. The conference will focus on:

Exploring historical influences of today’s present
The role of activism in transformation
Teaching strategies and the role of research methods to effect impactful change
Addressing structures and power relations within institutions

The conference will be held at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on March 4-7, 2020. Presenter submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis with final decisions being made by January 15, 2020.

If you would like to learn more about the conference or check out the electronic submission form, click the links.

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Under 3 DC – Advocacy for Change 2

Call for Presentation Proposals: Diversity and Equity in Higher Education