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Georgia State Designated Exclusive Host Sponsor for Diversity Abroad, Global Inclusion 2021

Georgia State Designated Exclusive Host Sponsor for Diversity Abroad, Global Inclusion 2021

Georgia State is pleased to announce its designation as the exclusive host sponsor for Diversity Abroad, Global Inclusion 2021, a global education conference that will take place Oct. 25-29. As a national leader in graduating students from diverse backgrounds and enterprising urban research institution, Georgia State embodies the conference’s mission of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in global education and cultural exchange.

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Advancing Graduate and Professional Education for All: The Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni

Advancing Graduate and Professional Education for All: The Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni

The Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni, or the CASA, is Georgia State’s initiative to encourage and support promising undergraduate students, especially from backgrounds that remain underrepresented in professional positions, to consider and prepare for education beyond the bachelor’s degree. Since its launch in 2018, the CASA has assisted thousands of students from across Georgia State’s large and diverse student population with learning both the logistics of applying to graduate school, and the soft skills required to move forward.

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Spring Semester Women Inspire Virtual Lecture With Deirdre Oakley on Feb. 24

Spring Semester Women Inspire Virtual Lecture With Deirdre Oakley on Feb. 24

The Office of the Provost invites you to the spring semester Women Inspire lecture, "How Far Yet to Go Now? The Status of Women in Georgia, 1970 and Today," delivered by Professor Deirdre Oakley of the Department of Sociology. The lecture will take place virtually from 1 to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24.

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Georgia State Graduate Embarks on Foreign Service Career as 2021 Pickering Fellow

Georgia State Graduate Embarks on Foreign Service Career as 2021 Pickering Fellow

Joshua Fife, an alumnus of Georgia State University who graduated in 2019 with a degree in journalism, has received the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Fife is one of 45 Pickering Fellows selected for 2021 from institutions including Columbia, Georgetown, Vanderbilt and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Muhammad Works Toward Culturally Responsive Education

Muhammad Works Toward Culturally Responsive Education

Gholnecsar Muhammad is an associate professor in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State. Her work and research are centered around culturally responsive education.

“Culturally responsive education is in response to students’ identities and the times we live in. It helps students with academic success, cultural competence, as well as social and political consciousness.”

College of Law, Information

Nirej Sekhon Wants us to Reimagine the Role of Police in Society

Nirej Sekhon Wants us to Reimagine the Role of Police in Society

Nirej Sekhon still remembers his last case working as a public defender in Seattle. A man was charged with theft for stealing a $2 burrito from a convenience store. The man had prior convictions, so the plea recommendation was one year in jail. Sekhon’s client readily admitted taking the burrito, but he didn’t think he should have to go to jail for a year for being hungry.

That case among many others like it, made Sekhon think about how the society often criminalizes rather than ameliorates poverty. It also made him think about the role that attorneys can play in connecting unfair practices to larger questions of systemic inequality and public perceptions of injustice.

“Public defenders have this potentially significant role to play in transforming the criminal justice system,” Sekhon says.

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DEI Weekly Digest - Week of Sept. 14-18

DEI Weekly Digest - Week of Sept. 14-18

Check out featured diversity, equity, and inclusion related stories in the news:

GSU Faculty Spotlight: Why Defunding Police, Upping Social Budgets Alone Won't Work
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies faculty members Dr. Thaddeus Johnson and Dr. Natasha Johnson urge Americans to reconceptualize the role of policing and provide recommendations for police reform in this opinion piece for USA Today.

Emmy Nominated Billy Porter on Being a Black Queer Man
In this interview, award winning actor Billy Porter recounts challenges and triumphs within his career as a gay Black male actor and changed attitudes toward LGBTQIA representation within Hollywood.

7 Tips for Troops Transitioning to Civilian World from a Former Navy Officer and Career Coach
Career coach and former Navy officer, Tim Wolfe, offers key preparation tips to military personnel either in the process of transitioning to civilian life or soon looking forward to that life change.

LEAD1 Association Working Group to Examine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Issues
The LEAD1 Association appointed a working group to examine issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in college sports. Amongst working group members is GSU's Senior Associate Athletic Director/Senior Woman Administrator and Chief Diversity Officer, Kelcey Roegiers.

Race and Identity at the Forefront of Entries for NPRs Student Podcast Challenge
Adults often find it really hard to talk about race. But kids? Maybe not so much. NPR received more than 2,000 entries in this year's Student Podcast Challenge, and heard from young people all over the country about how they're thinking about race and identity in these trying times.

WGSS

Georgia State's Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Georgia State's Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Celebrates 25th Anniversary

The Georgia State University Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a newsletter examining its history, paying homage to its founding Director Dr. Diane L. Fowlkes, highlighting faculty and student research, tracing experiences with current events, sharing program and conference information, and introducing members of the WGSS community on and off campus. Click the link to this posting to learn more.

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Associate Professor Researches Racial and Ethnic Disparities, and How Children and Students Can Be Prepared to Thrive Against Adversities

Associate Professor Researches Racial and Ethnic Disparities, and How Children and Students Can Be Prepared to Thrive Against Adversities

Ciara Smalls Glover, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia State, is examining factors that mitigate the adverse effects of discrimination against persons from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, including consequences for their emotional, academic and physical health.

“I was originally studying stress and coping, and from that I learned about the weight of a persistent stressor for communities of color—and that’s racial and ethnic discrimination.”

One of the factors that literature has found to be especially protective is racial and ethnic identity, Dr. Glover said. These are the beliefs and attitudes about an individual’s group membership. She said that these beliefs and attitudes evolve over time, with family playing a critical role.

“Identity doesn’t just happen. It develops. And one of the salient influences in that development is family,” Dr. Glover explained. “The role of the family has been central to my work and looking at the varied messages that families send to prepare their child for independence. Families from under-represented groups often don’t get permission to be portrayed in multi-faceted ways.”