We are pleased to announce the April selection for the DEI community book group read: Judy Heumann's new memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.

Book group meetings meet via Zoom on Fridays at 12:00 noon on the following dates: April 16, April 23, and April 30. (Please do not register if you are unable to attend at least two of the three scheduled meetings.)

April 12, 2021 6:30pm: Q & A Panel: Join us as our special guest panelists answer any questions you may have related to your career goals! Still debating which career to pick? That’s okay, feel free to ask any career-related questions you have. The questions can be submitted to SAS Graduate Assistant Elise Williams (erwilliams21@jcu.edu), to keep your questions anonymous if you would prefer.

April 14, 2021 6:30pm: Presentations: Join us as our Presenters go over important information, such as Job Searching, Resume Building, Cover Letters, Interview Prep, and useful Resources.

We are gathering feedback this week from students, faculty and staff about the effectiveness of the University Bias Response system. Please share your thoughts with us and help us to improve our systems and processes! Please take a moment today to complete our brief survey.

You can learn more about the Bias Response System at http://www.jcu.edu/bias. 

Dr. Robert Bullard- the Father of Environmental Justice- speaks with John Carroll University about how climate change is the defining global environmental justice, human rights and public health issue of the twenty-first century. 

The most vulnerable populations in the United States and around the world will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks because of where they live, their limited income and economic means, and their lack of access to health care. 

Professor Bullard’s presentation will focus primarily on the U.S. and the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change “hot-spot” zones and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies. He will offer a framework for dismantling systemic racism and policies and practices that create, exacerbate and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability. 

Contact Salomon Rodezno at srodezno@jcu.edu with questions or accommodation requests.

Video: Learn more about Dr. Bullard.

In the face of the recent spike in violence and hate crimes experienced by Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in the United States, the DEI division has added a new section, "Resources in Solidarity with AAPI Communities" to the Racial Equity Resources page of our website. This section includes articles, books, films, podcasts, and websites that you can use to help educate yourself, your colleagues and your students about the immediate (and historical) context of recent events, and discover action steps you can take to stop the rising tide of violence. (Photo: Stop Asian Hate March in Cleveland's AsiaTown, March 28, 2021. Photo credit: Ken Clunk. Published on social media by MidTown Cleveland)

Over the past year, students in the JCU AmeriCorps cohort have identified education as a social determinant of health in their community; the information students consume is not coming from peer-reviewed academic journals. In response, students have organized a Social Justice in Action webinar series for the month of April with local speakers on topics of homelessness and housing, sustainability, and racial justice. Click on the flyer for more information and Zoom links for each event.

Honduras has used their electoral power to create an extractive system for the benefit of an elite few while forgetting about autonomous indigenous communities in Honduras. This webinar will show how these indigenous communities have been impacted by the actions from the Honduran government, The Narcos, and the U.S government making these indigenous communities worse off economically, socially, security wise, and see how they became the “forgotten” society in Honduras.

This event will feature guest speakers Kendra McSweeney, Ph.D., professor of Geography at Ohio State University, and Edgardo Benitez, president of IFCA (Instituto para el Futuro Común Amerindio.) The panel will be facilitated by JCU Arrupe scholar Sebastian Coronado '21, who will also provide English translation for Mr. Benitez’s presentation.

This program is free and open to the public.

The Boler Students of Color Organization will meet next week to give space for students to talk about their experiences on campus and in the wider community and to plan a social event for later this spring.

Zoom information: https://johncarrolluniversity.zoom.us/j/99130876195

Meeting ID: 991 3087 6195

Passcode: 851295

This organization is for all self-identified students of color (graduate and undergraduate) in (or considering) the Boler College of Business.

Tomorrow, Friday, April 9 from 12:30-2:30 pm, the LASA executive board will be in Keller Commons (outside of the student center) between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. to meet and talk with anyone interested in learning more about the organization. Stop by and say hello!