Affirmative action will be the central theme of diversity and inclusiveness events this year, according to coordinator Rochelle Calhoun, director of diversity and inclusion.
The fall events will include a panel discussion representing diverse perspectives on "Affirmative Action: Failure? Success? Unfinished?"; two workshop-discussions for the campus community on "Acting Affirmatively: Creating a Search Plan" for people responsible for hiring staff at MHC; and a reading/lecture by Gwendolyn Parker, titled "Trespassing: Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege."
The series opens October 6 with a campus visit from Troy Duster, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley. Duster is the author of The Legislation of Morality, Aims and Control of the Universities, Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge, and Backdoor to Eugenics, among other works. He is also the grandson of Ida Wells-Barnett, a renowned nineteenth-century journalist who was active in the antilynching campaigns of the 1890s.
With Sylvia Hurtado, associate professor at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, Duster will cofacilitate a faculty roundtable discussion, "Understanding the Affirmative Action Debate," during the afternoon of October 6. That evening, Duster will give a lecture/discussion on "The Social and Political Context of the Current Attack on Affirmative Action in Higher Education."
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