“Beyond Diversity & Inclusion: Rethinking the Community Engagement Mission of Higher Education”
This year’s Butler Jones Lecture on Race & Society will feature Dr. Davarian Baldwin. Guided by his recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, Dr. Baldwin will discuss how the current higher education model of “diversity and inclusion” has and has not served its mission of community engagement. This conversation explores how the largely educational focus of diversity and inclusion must encompass higher education’s engagement with the world beyond the campus gates, especially as schools like OWU occupy a racially and economically uneven relationship with their host communities. Dr. Baldwin will outline how a more comprehensive vision of diversity, inclusion, and equity, that includes both campus and community, is the only promising path forward. Merrick Hall, Room 301 at 7 p.m.
Interested students can also meet Dr. Baldwin and join us for a small group discussion on Feb. 15 at 2:40-4 p.m. in Elliott Hall 4th-floor lounge.
Brought to you by the Departments of Sociology & Anthropology, Social Justice, and Africana, Gender, & Identity Studies.
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: SOAN
Contact: Paul Dean at psdean@owu.edu