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Georgia State University faculty members Tonia Durden and Stacey French-Lee have received a two-year, $800,000 grant from the Early Educator Investment Collaborative (EEIC) to expand and diversify Georgia’s early childhood education workforce.
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The Consulate General of Canada, in partnership with the Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora, presents the 2021 Black History Month virtual event, The Viola Desmond Lecture Series: "Writing Life Stories as Resistance on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (EDT).
The Honors College has recently formed its Committee for the Advancement of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CADEI), which serves as the Honors College’s organizing body to ensure its practices and policies promote a diverse, inclusive and equitable community of students, staff, faculty and alumni.
Georgia State faculty have come together to study how the pandemic is affecting refugees in Clarkston — and help address the community’s unique needs.
The Center for Studies of Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) and the Georgia State University Library have partnered with the Decatur Book Festival to highlight five Georgia State scholars with recently published books, each providing a unique lens on race and social justice issues.
The second of 4 talks in the series highlights the work of authors Gina Caison and GSU Professor Tiffany King on Monday, October 12 from 6:30pm-7:30pm EST.
Books: Gina Caison, Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies (2018) and Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (2019)
Learn more about the series and access the registration form at the University Library website by clicking the link.
On October 22-23, The Gender Studies in GA Virtual Conference will commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Georgia State University, the 50th Anniversary of women’s studies as an academic discipline, and the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Click here to learn more about registration, notable keynote speakers, conference agenda, and participating universities.
