CUDLI Applications Due this Friday!
The campus community centers are accepting applications for a new 10-week social justice institute. The Chancellor's Undergraduate Diversity Learning Initiative is an experiential gathering of learners framed by a commitment to personal growth regarding issues of social justice.
Applications and information are available at http://community.ucsd.edu and are due by 5:00 p.m. December 7. For questions email: diversity-institute@ucsd.edu
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CCC Affiliate Events
MEChA's Annual Posada
Fri., Dec. 7 from 7pm-12am
6th College Lodge
A posada is a cultural celebration by the Latino/a/Chicano/a community. Join us for dinner, mariachi, ballet folklorico, pinatas and dancing! All are welcome.
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Poetry Jam!
Thurs., Dec. 6 6-8pm at the LGBT Center
Need a light, fun and relaxing evening? Join us at the LGBT Resource Center for an inspirational and de-stress event. We will be watching clips of Staceyann Chin, a renown lesbian spoken word artist, eating delicious food and writing our words of self expression. Take a break from studying and go on a creative journey of finding your own powerful voice and relating your own personal experiences in a creative fashion.
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Women's Center Book Club
Tues., Dec. 11 from
12:00-1:00pm,
Women's Center
Student Center West, Bldg. 290
The Women's Center's next book club will meet in the small meeting room to discuss, An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears, (This book will be available at the UCSD Bookstore at a discount). The group is open to new members at all times and is for anyone who loves to read. All meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of every month.
For more information please contact Jessica Chapin-Geipel at
(858)822-1479 or jlchapin@ucsd.edu.
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Poet Nathaniel Mackey to be Honored at Library Event
Fri., 7 at 4pm in the
Seuss Room, Geisel Library
Nathaniel Mackey will be honored as the 2007 recipient of UCSD's Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, awarded biennially to an American poet-scholar who has made significant contributions to American letters. Mackey is currently professor of American and African-American Literatures at UC-Santa Cruz.
The celebration will include a reading of new and recent work by Mackey, followed by a reception and book signing.
Sponsored by the UCSD Libraries and Friends of the UCSD Libraries
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Things to make you go "Hmmm"...
"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement." - Angela Davis |
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Campus Community Centers to be OPEN 24 Hours!
Sunday, December 9-Wednesday, December 12, 2007
That's right folks, for your study pleasure the Campus Community Centers have combined forces to provide a space for students to study 24/7 in preparation for finals. On each night starting Sunday, December 9th through the morning of Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 one of the community centers will be open around the clock.
There will be study space, free food, study group rooms, and plenty of coffee!
The schedule is as follows:
- Sunday night / Monday morning go to the LGBT Resource Center.
- Monday night / Tuesday morning go to the Cross-Cultural Center.
- Tuesday night / Wednesday morning go to the Women's Center.
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Faculty, Grad and Staff Think Tank
Tues., Dec. 4 from 3-4pm at the Cross-Cultural Center
We will be discussing the article: "College Women Still Face Many Obstacles in Reaching Their Full Potential"- Chronicle of Higher Education: Diversity in Academe, September 28, 2007 by Linda J. Sax. Download the article here.
This is an interactive discussion on a pre-selected topic. Facullty, graduate students and staff are invited to weigh in on matters affecting our communities.
All are welcome to give suggestions on future professional development topics and readings on issues affecting our communities.
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. 
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San Diego Community Events
Celebrate Kwanzaa at the WorldBeat Cultural Center, December 27th at 7pm
All families and races are invited to join the celebration with WorldBeat Center's African Drum & Dance Troupe.
The celebration also includes speakers on the principles of Kwanzaa, the festive lighting of the candles, and delicious healthy African American cuisine. Sister Salimu will speak on Kwanzaa history and Traditions. Kemetic teacher "Bikbaye" will off the opening Prayer. Come one, come all to Celebrate!!! Find out more.
Annual Peace On Earth Holiday Bazaar
Sat., Dec. 8 at 10am
Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 4011 Ohio
Alternative To Corporate Gift Giving!  Support local peace, social justice and environmental organizations and avoid the commercialization of the holidays by purchasing alternative gifts. Gift items will include t-shirts, holiday cards, calendars, buttons, peace jewelry, books, imported goods, free trade coffee and tea, ornaments, soap products, lotions and more! Come hungry! Come thirsty! Middle Eastern food, ice cream and other goodies including baked goods, coffee, cold sodas and hot spiced cider will be available for purchase. Find out more. |
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Employment Opportunities
Director, Cross-Cultural Center at UC Irvine
The Director of the Cross Cultural Center is responsible for the overall management, direction, and long term development of the Cross Cultural Center. The Director manages a varied and complex set of co-curricular services and programs intended to advance knowledge of and awareness about UCI's various multicultural organizations and communities. The Director develops departmental goals and objectives, establishes budgetary and program priorities, identifies future resource needs, and recommends sources for same. Find out more. |
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Call for Papers
"Postcolonial" Futures in a Not-Yet Postcolonial World: Locating the Intersections of Ethnic, Indigenous, and Postcolonial Studies
The purpose of this conference is to create a space where scholars and activists engaged in these various projects, in various forms, can congregate to share ideas, hash out differences and move beyond caricatured understandings of each of these intellectual projects. It seeks to ask how, by putting ethnic, indigenous and postcolonial studies in conversation with each other, we may theorize new epistemologies that may better address the violences and injustices of the contemporary world. Get more information here.
"40 Years after Dr. King: Linking the Dream to the New Generation": American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE)
Annual Conference
The American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE) is pleased to announce the dates for our first annual conference. The conference theme "Creating a Context for Addressing Current Issues for Blacks in Higher Education" focuses on new paradigms needed to frame the work and challenges of Blacks in Colleges and Universities. Get more information here. | |
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