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Equity& Inclusion Matters - Issue 3, November 2017, Otterbein Office Of Social Justice & Activism

Equity and Inclusion Newsletter

In This Issue:

• Otterbein Conference Highlights Power of Women, Middle, High School Girls
• Columbus City Schools Sending Best, Brightest to Otterbein
• The Most Diverse First-Year Class in Otterbein's History Began in August
• Otterbein's Campus Reacts to Charlottesville Events

Center For Social Equity + Inclusion Action Plan, Center For Social Equity & Inclusion, Rosanne Somerson, Rene Watkins Payne

Center for Social Equity & Inclusion Action Plan

Art and design have far-reaching capacities for generating shared language and connecting people and communities. The creative forms we study at RISD are powerful means for conveying ideas and shaping experiences across habituated boundaries. Today we see those forms resonate more than ever before in the multilingual, culturally heterogeneous, digitally interconnected spaces around the globe. In fact, the democratization of communications media has made it possible for long marginalized voices to join and substantively transform our public discourses. The resulting body of critical knowledge has focused attention on interlocking systems of privilege and disenfranchisement entrenched throughout our social institutions, including …

Equity & Inclusion Matters - Issue 2, Janurary 2017, Otterbein Office Of Social Justice & Activism

Equity and Inclusion Newsletter

In This Issue:

• Otterbein Launches New Equity & Inclusion Website
• African American Alumni Network Renews Commitment to Otterbein Students, Alumni
• Otterbein Well Represented at Women's March
• New Race and Ethnic Studies Minor Aims to Increase Campus Conversations