National Disability Awareness Month 2024: Workplace Equity Benefits Everybody October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), a month dedicated to celebrating the value and talent Americans with disabilities contribute to our nation’s workplaces and economy. This year’s theme, “Access to Good Jobs for All,” reminds us that everyone, regardless of ability, deserves an opportunity to prepare for, obtain and succeed in meaningful employment.
Celebrating 2024 LGBTQ+ Month and Juneteenth As a UO community, June is an opportunity to celebrate our students as they graduate and move forward to achieve their next levels of success. June is also the month for celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride and Juneteenth.In 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton declared the month of June as “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month”. In 2016, President Barack H. Obama used a presidential declaration to announce June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, and indeed as a way of being more inclusive to a broader constituency.
The Look no Feather Podcast: Episode 8 In this episode we provide deeper insight into all that the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE) has to offer. By providing advising appointments, workshops, tutoring, cultural study halls, and more the CMAE supports students who belong to historically underrepresented and underserved populations.
We interview Rosa Chavez, J.D who is the Associate Director for the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE) at the University of Oregon.
Welcome to Spring Term 2024: A Time of Light and Hope Ultimately, Springtime in Eugene is beautiful, but that beauty only emerges after months of a dreary sky and rain. The fact that beauty can and, often does, emerge from the rainy seasons of our lives is an encouragement, as people across our world experience wars, conflicts, unnecessary suffering as well as death at home and abroad.
Happy Women’s History Month! The world-wide celebration of Women’s History Month began in 1917, when March 8 was initially earmarked as International Women’s Day. Under President Jimmy Carter, a 1980 proclamation recognized National Women’s History Week, which the U.S. Congress, in 1987, used a law to rename as “Women’s History Month” in March of each year. Celebrating Women’s History Month on our campus is an opportunity to recognize and also celebrate the progress that the UO is making in leveraging equity and anti-discrimination as important tools in building a thriving and flourishing campus.
Black History Month 2024: Education Is Freedom For All Education has always played a pivotal role in Black History. As enslaved people in America, beginning in 1619, African Americans were either denied the ability to learn or to have any meaningful education. Individual slaves, who endeavored to read and also to teach others to read were deemed criminals, punishable by violent lashing and, in some cases, even death. Deemed properties of their owners, Black people were also prevented from either learning about their history or to utilize their native African dialects.
Investing in Thriving Community Today as We Look Towards the Future Part of cultivating a thriving campus is constantly challenging ourselves to better facilitate and nourish community. How are we affirming and encouraging all in our community to be their full selves, not just on an individual level, but in our systems? Latinx Heritage Month 2023 is as opportune a time as any to explore this question.
AAPI Heritage Month and Challenging Reactionary Solutions It is becoming a grim tradition this time of year to review the Stop AAPI Hate data and acknowledge that the issue is continuing to get worse. When you factor in particularly tragic spectacles such as the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California in January where a gunman killed 11 Asian American people at a dance hall, it’s even more distressing. Frustrating but unsurprisingly, far too many people attempted to minimize this tragedy by implying that the fact that the gunman was an Asian American man invalidated any reasons to treat it as an instance of the systemic danger Asian Americans face. In many ways, this is a reflection of how the national discourse has been oversimplified and often weaponized to obscure and divert energy away from a glaring problem: increasing anti-Asian hate crimes.
