September 2015: Marie-Noelle Nwokolo ('16)
"[Marie-Noelle] Nwokolo (along with faculty and staff of the International Business & Management Department) organized documentary screenings and a student-led panel discussion that asked:
Are the current global-aid systems working? And if not, how can we better help developing nations? By talking through these issues as a community, Nwokolo believes, we all can learn to make a meaningful difference. “We hope that by putting familiar faces up there, students will be more encouraged to ask questions and share their concerns,” she adds." Words by Mary Alice Bitts-Jackson |
May 2015: Sarah Archer-Days ('15) & Frank Williams III ('15)
"For much of the academic year, racial tensions—from Ferguson, Mo., to Staten Island and from San Francisco to Baltimore—have galvanized college students across the country to participate in the #blacklivesmatter movement, whether through direct action or dialogue.
At Dickinson, much of that action and dialogue has been led by three seniors working in the Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity (PSC): Sarah Archer-Days, Frank Williams and Orli Segal..." Words by Alejandro Heredia Photo by Carl Socolow |
AAS & Africana Studies Seniors With Dr. Angela Davis
Making the journey to Elizabethtown University, Dickinson College students were fortunate to meet a living legend, Dr. Angela Davis. Under the coordination of the Office of Diversity Initiatives/Women's Center, the students and two faculty listened and learned about the issue of the Prison Industrial Complex, the meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation, and Dr. Davis' insights on the state of the U.S.
Top from the Left: Jessica Libowitz ('15), Andrew Hill ('13), Dr. Angela Davis, Ashley S. Young ('14), Frank Williams, III ('15), Alex Agiliga ('13)
Bottom from the Left: Wendy Gomez ('15), Chalise Saunders ('14)
Top from the Left: Jessica Libowitz ('15), Andrew Hill ('13), Dr. Angela Davis, Ashley S. Young ('14), Frank Williams, III ('15), Alex Agiliga ('13)
Bottom from the Left: Wendy Gomez ('15), Chalise Saunders ('14)
Joyce Bylander, Special Assistant to the President for Institutional & Diversity Initiatives "The student body when I came had not been visibly diverse. By that, I mean the number of U.S. students of color, U.S. nonwhite students, was very low. It was about 3.9 percent of the population and had been so for many, many years. And when I came, people said that that was because it was so hard to get people to come to Carlisle, and I challenged that..." "The Posse Foundation recruits urban students from all over the country and sends them to highly selective colleges and universities all over the country. The two most important components for retention in higher education are a group of supportive peers and a caring adult, and the Posse Foundation simply has codified that so that students go in cohorts of at least 10 but not more than 12, and there is a mentor assigned to those students and that mentor stays with them for the first two years. The Posse Foundation has been a catalyst for increasing diversity, because one of the most important factors for having diversity at a campus is critical mass. It’s kind of a Catch-22. You have to be diverse to be diverse. And so Posse helped us jumpstart diversity and helped us get to critical mass, which is some magical number that no one can define, but you can feel it. It’s important that students see themselves reflected back when they’re visiting. Then they can imagine themselves in this place." |