December 3rd, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this segment, Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by LaToya Council - Power And Privilege in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
As a young Black woman, I have been afforded many opportunities in life that were not necessarily given to previous generations of women in my family. Some of these opportunities include: receiving a Bachelors degree from a prestigious college, studying abroad in different countries, learning and mastering a second language, and having the opportunity to attend graduate school. Each of these...
November 26th, 2012
Written by Kimberlee McWhirter in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 14 Comments
I cannot change that I’m white, heterosexual, able-bodied, American, middle class, English speaking, educated; I was born with these privileges. I did not ask for them, nor did I earn them, but with them comes a responsibility to recognize that these privileges exist, to educate myself about the system of social inequality, and to work towards social justice and equity.
According to Sociologist...
November 26th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 9 Comments
If there was any doubt of a racial component during the past election after the coordinated attempts at targeted voter ID laws to disenfranchise racial minority voters, a number of events following the election have shown that racism seems to run deeper than thought and that a post-racial change in our cultural-political society has a long way to go.
“I wonder how many students sat in their dorm...
November 12th, 2012
Written by Bill Kaczor - Associated Press in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 2 Comments
Florida education officials say they will not appeal a federal court ruling that bars state colleges and universities from charging higher out-of-state tuition rates to Florida residents who are US citizens but dependent on illegal immigrant parents.
The State Board of Education unanimously voted against an appeal on Tuesday at a meeting in Boca Raton.
On another racial and ethnic issue, board...
