Socio-economic Lecture

On Saturday, April 18th, 2009 IDC is bringing Rachel Rybaczuk to address the community on matters regarding socio-economic diversity.  She is currently a professor at UMass Amherst, teaching a class on socioeconomics in higher education. As a graduate student (also at UMass) she was a part of the Roosevelt Institute. Her personal experience of coming from a low income background, struck her particularly as an undergraduate student, and is part of what drew her to this issue; along with later experience in admissions, which gives her a particularly intimate knowledge of the intersection between class and campus dynamics.  Rachel is also a well published author on the subject.  Hope to see you all on April 18th, in McCullough!

Africana Studies Panel

We are working to organize a panel with students and professors who are affliated with the African Studies Program in order to obtain information about our current program (i.e. the courses, its structure etc.) while also seeing what it lacks (i.e. not enough courses etc.)  This panel, we hope, will occur before the end of the year.  This is just another step in our attempts to gather information and be fully prepared when we actually start presenting the major to the College.