Diversity Digest
Introducing: Feminist Theory Thursdays
Feminist Theory Thursdays are staff- and faculty- facilitated conversations about how they utilize theory within their everyday practice.
GLBT Advocate Program Offers New Workshops
A signature initiative of the GLBT Center, the GLBT Advocate Program returns for a fourth year with new workshop offerings and events for faculty, staff and students.
Listening Parties Provide Reflection on Social Issues
The Women’s Center hosted its Welcome Back Wolfpack Listening Party on August 24, 2018. The session focused on KOD, the fifth studio album of artist J. Cole, who is originally from Fayetteville, NC
Symposium Welcomes First-Year Students, Builds Community
On Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 137 students checked in to the 2018 Symposium for Multicultural Scholars hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs. Symposium is held each fall, the week before classes start, and provides an opportunity for incoming first-year students from traditionally underserved backgrounds to connect with campus.
African American Cultural Center Library Supports New Research Emphasis
With a freshly transformed office suite, the African American Cultural Center has widened both its physical space and its scope. The addition of Assistant Director Sachelle Ford catalyzed the center’s new emphasis on scholarship with a focus that includes faculty, graduate and undergraduate research engagement.
Grad Student Briana Green Wins First Prize for Research Poster
Briana Green, a master’s student in educational psychology, won first prize in the research poster competition at the American Psychological Association Division 45 Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race Research Conference.
Multicultural Graduate Student Orientation Set to Launch
This week, Multicultural Student Affairs will host its inaugural Multicultural Graduate Student Orientation (MGSO). The event serves to familiarize students from historically underserved groups with the resources and support infrastructure available to them across NC State’s campus. Orientation is part of a new initiative rolled out by MSA to provide intentional services and programming for multicultural graduate students.
Renowned Author Sandra Cisneros Thrills Wolfpack
In collaboration with NCSU Libraries and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), Multicultural Student Affairs hosted renowned author Sandra Cisneros on August 2, 2018. Cisneros, a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist, explores the lives of the working-class in her work.
GLBT Center to Host Social Justice Cohort
The GLBT Center invites students, faculty and staff to join the Social Justice Cohort, a group of dedicated individuals interested in exploring concepts of race, gender, sexuality, ability, age, religion, social justice, privilege, power and oppression as they overlap, intersect and manifest within society and on college campuses.
Chocolate Festival Tickets Now on Sale
The Women’s Center will host the 16th Annual NC State Chocolate Festival for Breast Cancer Research on Friday, September 28, 2018 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Talley Student Union’s State Ballroom. The festival is many things at once: a fundraiser, an educational event, a chocolate extravaganza, a silent auction and fun.