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- MIP Blog. The blog is a rolling list of resources and links members of CCSF's MIP community might find useful. Check it out at http://ccsfmip.wordpress.com/. If you are aware of other resources or anything else that should be here, let us know and we'll link to them. We encourage you to comment about what's helpful (or not); help us make this an increasingly valuable resource for our community!
- Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy & Culture, presents "Creating a Chance to Dream: Student Achievement and Critical Multicultural Education" on Wednesday, April 9, 1-2 pm in the Diego Rivera Theater.
This event is open to all students, faculty, classified, and administrators.
Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy & Culture at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, School of Education,
Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies. In her talk
she will be emphasizing the experience of students as they navigate an
education system that often isn't helpful, usually isn't culturally
relevant, and frequently negates the very skills and abilities the
students bring to the table.
- Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D. presents "Say it Loud .... We are Proud!: Psychology, Education & Racial Identity " on Friday, February 29th, 1-2pm, VA 114.
* Assistant Vice Chancellor for Counseling and Health Services at University of California, Irvine (UCI)
* Director of the Counseling Center and adjunct faculty member at UCI
* Author of Counseling African-Descent People: Raising the Bar of Practitioner Competence and Co-Author, "The Psychology of Blacks: An African American Perspective" and author of many other books and articles on multicultural education and counseling.
"In consultations, public addresses, and television appearances throughout the United States, Dr. Parham has addressed such issues as multicultural counseling, counseling African Americans, cultural competence, youth and violence, coping with stress, characteristics of exceptional people, multicultural education, managing a diverse workforce, effective communications, developing effective management & supervisory skills, managing people, conflict resolution and team building." www.chs.uci.edu
- Multimedia Presentation by Kip Fulbeck, "What are You? Exploring Multi-racial Identity Through the Arts". Friday, November 16, 2007, from 1:00-2:30pm in the Diego Rivera Theatre.
Kip Fulbeck, an award winning filmmaker, multiracial advocate, and author of "Part Asian, 100% Hapa", and "Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography" centered his presentation on the idea of identity, how we are perceived and how we define ourselves. Read more on Kip Fulbeck at CCSF, and viisit his website: www.seaweedproductions.com
- Presentation by Dr. Tara Yosso on Challenging racism along the Chicana/o educational pipeline. September 21, 2007, from 2-3 pm in V115.
At a college-wide presentation, Dr. Tara Yosso, Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara spoke about "Challenging racism along the Chicana/o educational pipeline." Dr. Yosso's book "Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline" analyzes Chicana/o experiences navigating through structures, practices, and discourses of racism from elementary through graduate school. Her current research focuses on "Latina/os in school according to Hollywood. " Read more about Dr. Yosso's talk at CCSF. To see her exact words, check out this slide from her powerpoint
presentation.
- Check out this cool issue of On Campus with Women
Note especially the article by Kathleen Wong (Lau).
On Campus with Women (OCWW), sponsored by AAC&U's Program on the Status and Education of Women, provides readers with the most up-to-date information on women in higher education. It focuses on women's leadership, the campus climate, curriculum and pedagogy, and new research and data on women.
- ZNet Commentary: Don't Know Much About (Black) History
by Tim Wise
Philadelphia is the first American city to require thath high school students pass a course in African American history for graduation, which has been met with uproar from white students and parents. Think it wouldn't happen in San Francisco? Think again...
- Diversity Appraisal Report
Good news and bad news
Diversity, like many of the high goals to which organizations aspire, is as difficult to achieve as it is rich and rewarding to experience. Its an ever-evolving but fine and necessary cause.
- Newsletter
From the California Community College Chancellor's Office Family
and Consumer Science Collaborative Grant (#04-160)
Emphasizing and promoting our interconnection to one another is essential to our efforts to renew the commitment necessary to build a more dynamic, accessible, and effective community college system.
- Assessment of Diversity in America's Teaching Force
Presented by the National Collaborative on Diversity in the Teaching Force
In late 2001, Congress passed the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The goal of this legislation is to improve the academic performance of all students, while simultaneously closing achievement gaps that persist between students from different ethnic groups and economic backgrounds.
- First Annual MIP Retreat!
Friday, August 19th - Sunday August 21st
MIP participants will join together at the Vallambrosa Retreat and Conference Center for a weekend of learning, collaboration and comraderie.
- ZNet Commentary: Summers of Our Discontent
by Katha Pollitt
As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man. A distinguished economist who was Treasury Secretary under Clinton, Summers caused a firestorm on January 14 when, speaking from notes at a conference on academic diversity, he argued that tenured women are rare in math and science for three reasons, which he listed in descending order of importance.
- Connell & Lo
win ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries
Section Program Award
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL),
is pleased to announce that Kate Connell, reference/instruction
and library exhibitions curator, and Suzanne Lo, reference/instruction
and library program committee chair, both of the City College
of San Francisco, have been chosen to receive the 2005 CJCLS/EBSCO
Community College Learning Resources Program Achievement
Award for their work on the City College of San Francisco's
Library Programs and Exhibitions Committee.
- Color of Violence III:
Stopping the War on Women of Color
Stopping the War on Women of Color
The many forms of violence experienced on a daily basis
by women of color around the world amount to nothing less
than a global war on Women of Color. Color of Violence III
will provide an opportunity for women of color to develop
and share organizing strategies to address this global assault
on women of color.
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