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Multicultural Learning Office

2009 - 2010 Academic Year Events

 

 October 2009
 November 2009
 January 2010

 

 February 2010
 March 2010
 April 2010
 May 2010
 June 2010



 




Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Multicultural Welcome Dinner and Dessert Reception for New Students
5:00 - 6:30 pm
California Mission Room (Dinner)
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Shapell Patio (Dessert)
This annual celebration welcomes first-year and transfer students of color to Santa Clara University.  This event is a great opportunity for you to meet current students, faculty and staff to find out more information about cultural programs, activities, and resources on campus.  A first year experience will also be shared by an SCU sophomore taking a "look back".
This event is co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, and the Multicultural Center.
By invitation only.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
LGBTQ Allies Tea Social


4:00 - 5:00 pm
Benson Center Parlors BC 


Please RSVP by October 5th to Pauline Nguyen.
Coordinated by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, Office of Student Life, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program. 

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Women of Color Faculty/Staff Luncheon

11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Benson Williman Room
RSVP required by Wednesday, October 7th to Pauline Nguyen 
The Women of Color Network is a collaboration initiative between the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Searching for Whitopia

Noon - 1:00 pm
Wiegand Room, Arts & Sciences Building

Rich Benjamin, author: "Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America" (October 2009) will speak about his new book.

Rich Benjamin is a scholar, lecturer, and commentator on contemporary American politics and culture.  He was educated at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature, and he served as a visiting scholar at Columbia University Law School.  Benjamin is currently a senior fellow at DEMOS, a progressive national think tank based in New York City.  SEARCHING FOR WHITOPIA is his first book.  Books will be available for purchase after the event.

Your America, The Two Americas: a discussion with Rich Benjamin
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Seminar Room 232, Arts & Sciences Building
Must RSVP by October 23rd, 2009 to Pauline Nguyen.

BOOK DESCRIPTION: A gifted black journalist's frightening narrative exploration of-- and revelations about-- the new migrations of white Americans from increasingly diverse suburbs to fast-growing enclaves of white homogeneity.  "Searching for Whitopia" delves into the hearts and homes of white Americans who are fleeing the cities and states where they are increasingly the minority for small towns and exurban areas that are virtually all white.  Rich Benjamin dubs these places "Whitopias" (pronounced "White-o-pias").  Benjamin, a black American with a companionable writing style, lived for three months among white Americans in three Whitopian enclaves: Forsyth County, Georgia; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and St. George, Utah.  Through experiencing real people and unearthing startling statistics, Benjamin shows how global, economic and migratory forces have created a perfect storm of anxiety among many white Americans--and he looks with them as they try to find and hang on to a lost America.  Through memorable characters and scenes, the book focuses on this phenomenon in a way that does justice to its psychological and cultural implications as well its possible impact on the future of the United States.  The book includes chapters written after President Obama's election.

Co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Commonwealth Club, and the Multicultural Center.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Félix Gutiérrez and Claudia Núñez
"Voices for Justice: 200 years of Latino newspaper in the U.S."
Chicano/Latino Heritage Month Celebration

5:00 - 6:30 pm
Wiegand Room (Arts & Sciences Building)

   The bicentennial of Latino newspapers in the United States will be recognized by Santa Clara University with a preview film screening, exhibit and presentation that bring to life the people and stories in the "forgotten pages" of U.S. Latino newspapers since 1808.

   The program includes a preview screening of the documentary "Voices for Justice: The Enduring Legacy of the Latino Press in the U.S.", an exhibit showcasing key Latino newspapers and the stories they have reported over the past 200 years, and a PowerPoint presentation by Félix F. Gutiérrez, Professor of Journalism, Communication and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, a Latino media journalist and scholar for more than 40 years.

   "For more than 200 years Latino newspapers have been Voices for Justice in a nation that promises justice, but does not always deliver it to all within its borders," Gutiérrez said.  "The progam will show how newspapers advocated independence and freedom across the hemisphere, spoke against Yanqui violence after the U.S. took the Southwest from México, helped newcomers become Americanos, encouraged young Latinos to advance themselves in the 1930s and 40s, were advocates for Chicano and other liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s, and are a growing force in U.S. as other media declare bankruptcy."

Félix Gutiérrez is a Professor of Journalism and Communication in the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and an Affiliate Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity.  A former Senior Vice President of the Freedom Forum and the Newseum, his responsibilities during 12 years in philanthropy included journalism education and professional grants and programs, establishing and supervising Pacific Coast Center programs in Oakland and San Francisco, and researching diversity exhibits for the Newseum to open in Washington, D.C. in 2008.

Claudia Núñez, a reporter for La Opinión newspaper in Los Angeles, documented the struggles of Oaxacan villagers who were lured to San Jose and Los Angeles by false promises of well-paying jobs, then ended up as virtual slaves in small restaurants and taquerias. Her reports on human trafficking challenged the Latino community to acknowledge exploitation from within.

Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Latino Faculty Group, MEChA, and the Communication Department.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Difficult Dialogue - White Identity
Facilitated by Professor Marilyn Edelstein, English Department



3:45 - 5:00 pm
Wiegand Room 
Please RSVP by October 27th, to Pauline Nguyen

Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, and the Ethnic Studies Program.

 

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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Sylvia Hurtado

Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA



Using Student Data to Demonstrate Institutional Impact
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center




Creating Diverse Learning Environment: Campus Climate, Practices and Outcomes
5:30 - 7:00 pm
California Mission Room, Benson Center


Sylvia Hurtado is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. Just prior to coming to UCLA, she served as Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Dr. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary interest in student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact on student development, and diversity in higher education. She has served on numerous editorial boards for journals in education and served on the boards for the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the Higher Learning Commission, and is past-President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Black Issues In Higher Education named her among the top 15 influential faculty whose work has had an impact on the academy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and A.B. from Princeton University in Sociology.

Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, and the School of Education.

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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Troy Duster
Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at NYU


Race in a Post-Genomic Era versus Genomics in a Post-Racial Era
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Kennedy Commons


Whitewashing Diversity in Academia: What's Behind the Strong Resistance to Multi-Culturalism?

5:30 - 7:00 pm
California Mission Room, Benson Center

Troy Duster earned his B.S. degree in journalism from University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.


Duster became professor of sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. He is also the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1970. In 2004, he served a one-year term as President of the American Sociological Association. Duster's research and writing have ranged across a variety of subject areas: the sociology of law, science, deviance, inequality, race and education. In 1970, his first book, The Legislation of Morality: Drugs, Crime, and Law became a classic in the drug field.

Duster is co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (2003), which won the Benjamin Hooks Award and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 2004. Among his other awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship at the London School of Economics; an honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College; and the Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. With his siblings, Duster has established the Ida B. Wells Foundation, which gives awards to journalists and researchers working in Wells' tradition of writing and speaking out for civil rights, civil liberties and social justice.

Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Biology Department, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, the Markkula Center for Applied of Ethics, and the School of Education.

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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Difficult Dialogue - Title TBA 

Time: TBA
Location: TBA

 

March 2010
Events TBA


 

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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010


Difficult Dialogue - Title TBA
Time : TBA
Location: TBA

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010


LGBTQ Allies Network - Title TBA 
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Benson Center Room 21

Presented by the LGBTQ Allies Network, a joint initiative of the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Office of Student Life, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

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Thursday, May 20th, 2010


Film Screening: "Whatever It Takes", Directed by Chris Wong
Ethnic Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration 
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
St. Clare Room (Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library)

Featured Speaker: Edward Tom, star of the film and principal of the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics.
For a preview of the film, please visit: www.whateverittakesdoc.com.

Please RSVP to Pauline Nguyen.

Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.

 

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Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Pan-Asian Senior Ceremony

Doors open at 4:30 pm
Ceremony starts at 5:00 pm
California Mission Room
Sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
By invitation only.

Pan-African Senior Ceremony


Doors open at 6:00 pm
Ceremony starts at 6:30 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center
Sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
By invitation only.




Chicano/Latino Senior Ceremony
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Ceremony starts at 7:30 pm
Mayer Theatre
Sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
By invitation only.