Week of Events
Diversity Workshop: Exploring Within to Understand Beyond
Diversity Workshop: Exploring Within to Understand Beyond
"Diversity Works" is an interactive exploration into diversity awareness, creating opportunities for real conversations that matter. The workshop includes a variety of types of learning, interaction, and technology, with activity stations set up for participants to decide which learning activities they'd like to participate in. After completing the station activities, the group will participate in...
The Bootstrap Narrative
The Bootstrap Narrative
The bootstrap narrative is essentially the belief that a person in the United States who works hard, assumes personal responsibility and maintains a strong moral center can accomplish anything. Unfortunately, for many students from low-income families, this narrative does not reflect their experiences at institutions of higher education. Many intelligent and hardworking low-income students struggle...
Student Parents or Parenting Students?
Student Parents or Parenting Students?
Finding the right terminology to talk about this demographic is a complicated process. Parenting students are a diverse bunch, and their experiences can vary widely depending on other identities they hold. The complexity of the language teaches us a lesson about the complexity of student parents as a whole: They are not a monolithic group....